Birds to See in Leitrim in February
17 species listed for February · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
17 bird species on our list for Leitrim are recorded regularly in February. Of these, the most often recorded are Whooper Swan, Great Cormorant, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe and Mallard. New this month: Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Eurasian Teal and Chaffinch and 5 more.
Residents
(7)Recorded all year
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Regularly Dec–Sep
Coal Tit
Periparus aterLC
Regularly Feb–Apr
European Herring Gull
Larus argentatusLC
Regularly Feb
Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytesLC
Regularly Jan–Oct
Goldcrest
Regulus regulusLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Song Thrush
Turdus philomelosLC
Regularly Feb–Jun
Winter visitors
(4)Present outside the breeding season
Passage migrants
(2)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Scarce visitors
(4)Recorded in some years but not every year
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