Common Birds in Leitrim
Our list for Leitrim has 53 common birds recorded regularly there: 28 residents, 1 summer visitor, 4 winter visitors, 9 passage migrants and 11 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Leitrim in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 53, most common first
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusResidentCommon12–12 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Great TitParus majorResidentCommon14–16 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
MagpiePica picaResidentCommon44–46 cmRegularly Jan–Jun
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusScarceCommon46–51 cm
Grey HeronArdea cinereaScarceCommon90–98 cmRegularly Jan–Jun
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorusResidentCommon26–29 cmRegularly Jan–Jun
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusPassage migrantCommon52–64 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–May
House MartinDelichon urbicumPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Jun
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon19–22 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon31–33 cmRegularly Jul
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRegularly Feb–Jun
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusResidentCommon14–16 cmRegularly Jun
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRegularly Feb
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Jun
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisResidentCommon14–15 cmRegularly Apr
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 cmRegularly Jan–Jun
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRegularly Apr–May
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRegularly Jul
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaPassage migrantCommon10–12 cmRegularly Apr
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusScarceCommon12–13 cmRegularly Jun
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusScarceCommon28–38 cm
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made