Gulls & Terns in Carlow
Our list for Carlow has 4 gulls & terns recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 1 passage migrant and 1 scarce visitor
All 4, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Black-headed Gull 38–44 cm
- Lesser Black-backed Gull 52–64 cm
- Yellow-legged Gull 52–68 cm
- European Herring Gull 55–67 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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