Birds in Mayo
163 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Mayo has 163 bird species recorded regularly there: 58 residents, 31 summer visitors, 23 winter visitors, 36 passage migrants and 15 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 63,000 birdwatchers' records from 2019–2024, shared through the eBird Observation Dataset on GBIF. A bird is listed when it was recorded in at least 3 of the 6 years and has a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur here than are listed; the months show when it is recorded most years.
Birds to see in Mayo in September
116 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.

Meadow Pipit
Resident

European Herring Gull
Resident

Pied Wagtail
Resident

Great Black-backed Gull
Resident

Hooded Crow
Resident

Common Starling
Resident

European Robin
Resident

Common Gull
Resident
Arriving in September: Eurasian Teal, Eurasian Wigeon, Goldcrest, Dunnock, Tufted Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, Blackcap, Golden Plover and 30 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Mayo each month: most in September (116), fewest in August (82). Choose a month to see its birds.
All 163 birds on the list
Showing 70–92 of 163 species

Coal Tit
Periparus aterLC
Recorded all year

Red-billed Chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxLC
Recorded all year

Northern Lapwing
Vanellus vanellusNT
Regularly Sep–Jul

Black Guillemot
Cepphus grylleLC
Recorded all year

Brent Goose
Branta berniclaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Grey Wagtail
Motacilla cinereaLC
Regularly Apr–Feb

Mistle Thrush
Turdus viscivorusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul

Great Skua
Stercorarius skuaLC
Regularly May–Oct
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Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr

Sooty Shearwater
Ardenna griseaNT
Regularly Jul–Oct

Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinagoLC
Regularly Feb–Dec

Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Apr–Sep

Common Scoter
Melanitta nigraLC
Regularly Aug–May

Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Regularly May–Mar

Common Pheasant
Phasianus colchicusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug

Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeataLC
Regularly Sep–May

Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Regularly Apr–Feb

Common Swift
Apus apusLC
Regularly May–Jul

European Storm-petrel
Hydrobates pelagicusLC
Regularly Jul–Sep

Greenfinch
Chloris chlorisLC
Regularly Sep–Jul

Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly May–Aug

Common Redpoll
Acanthis flammeaLC
Regularly May–Nov

Arctic Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticusLC
Regularly Aug–Sep
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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