Birds to See in Kilkenny in December
13 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
13 bird species on our list for Kilkenny are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, European Robin, Rook and Great Tit. New this month: Rook, Eurasian Wren, Chaffinch and Great Tit and 5 more.
New in December9
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(9)Recorded all year
Woodpigeon
Columba palumbusLC
Recorded all year
Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleusLC
Recorded all year
European Robin
Erithacus rubeculaLC
Recorded all year
Rook
Corvus frugilegusLC
Regularly Dec–Oct
Great Tit
Parus majorLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year
Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Regularly Apr–Feb
Mistle Thrush
Turdus viscivorusLC
Regularly Apr–Dec
Eurasian Jay
Garrulus glandariusLC
Regularly Jun–Dec
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(1)Present outside the breeding season
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