The phrase "a common resident" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who frequently lives in a particular place or area, often implying that they are well-known or typical for that location.
Example: "In this neighborhood, John is a common resident, often seen walking his dog in the park."
Alternatives: "a regular inhabitant" or "a frequent dweller".
Found only in Jamaica, this mango is a common resident, especially along the northern coast.
The plainest and grayest species is Cassin's auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus), a common resident from the Aleutians to Baja California.
Endemic to highland forests of northern Central America, predominantly in western Mexico, Mountain Trogon is a common resident from 1,200 to 3,500m.
In Venezuela, Great Black Hawk is a common resident along rivers and oxbows in humid lowland forest, typically below 500 m (Hilty 2003).
The Silver-beaked Tanager is a common resident of bushy forest margins and secondary forest across the Amazon basin from Venezuela south to Northern Paraguay.
If symptoms of a urinary tract infection are present, the culprit organism — often the bacterium E. coli, a common resident of the lower digestive tract — can be isolated from urine and, if necessary, tested for antibiotic sensitivity.
It will be months before DNA tests tell the full story: did those hairs belong to a black bear, a relatively common resident here, or were they snagged from the far more elusive grizzly?
The White-chinned Thrush is a fairly common resident of Jamaica, and is a habitat generalist at most elevations, inhabiting primary and secondary forest, and forest edge and scrub.
A fairly common resident from 1500-3000 m, White-naped Swift is found primarily in arid highlands, but it is far-ranging and often wanders into humid coastal lowlands.
The Black-winged Saltator is a fairly common resident of humid montane forest on the west slope of the Andes from southern Ecuador to northern Colombia.
The barred owl, a bigger, more adaptable bird with a broader diet than the flying squirrels and the wood rats that spotted owls prefer, has expanded its range westward in the past century, and it is now a more common resident than spotted owls in many Northwest forests.
