Common Birds in Offaly
Our list for Offaly has 85 common birds recorded regularly there: 49 residents, 14 summer visitors, 10 winter visitors, 8 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Offaly in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 85, most common first
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRegularly Nov–Aug
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisResidentCommon14–15 cmRegularly Oct–Aug
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 cmRegularly Oct–Aug
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentCommon75–90 cmRegularly May–Mar
KestrelFalco tinnunculusSummer visitorCommon32–39 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaWinter visitorCommon26–29 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
FieldfareTurdus pilarisWinter visitorCommon22–27 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusWinter visitorCommon32–35 cmRegularly Oct–May
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusResidentCommon14–16 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon14–15 cmRegularly Oct–Aug
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaResidentCommon15–17 cmRegularly Apr–Feb
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusWinter visitorCommon140–165 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Common RedpollAcanthis flammeaSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentCommon50–90 cmRecorded all year
LinnetLinaria cannabinaResidentCommon13–14 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Coal TitPeriparus aterSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Jan–Aug
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusSummer visitorCommon38–44 cmRegularly Dec–Jul
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