Common Birds in Carlow
Our list for Carlow has 67 common birds recorded regularly there: 42 residents, 6 winter visitors, 9 passage migrants and 10 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Carlow in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 67, most common first
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaResidentCommon16–17 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisResidentCommon23–29 cmRegularly Jan
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaScarceCommon17–20 cm
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusResidentCommon11–13 cmRegularly Feb
Common SwiftApus apusScarceCommon16–17 cm
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusScarceCommon32–35 cm
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–May
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRegularly Jan–May
FieldfareTurdus pilarisPassage migrantCommon22–27 cmRegularly Dec–Jan
LinnetLinaria cannabinaResidentCommon13–14 cmRegularly Dec–May
Common KingfisherAlcedo atthisResidentCommon16–17 cmRegularly Sep
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRegularly Dec
Eurasian TealAnas creccaScarceCommon34–38 cm
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisResidentCommon16–18 cmRegularly Dec
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusResidentCommon28–31 cmRegularly Dec
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusResidentCommon14–16 cmRegularly Dec
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusResidentCommon28–38 cmRegularly Feb
DipperCinclus cinclusResidentCommon17–20 cmRegularly Apr
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisScarceCommon12–14 cm
Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostraScarceCommon15–17 cm
Little EgretEgretta garzettaScarceCommon55–65 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