Common Birds in Clare
Our list for Clare has 111 common birds recorded regularly there: 50 residents, 19 summer visitors, 27 winter visitors and 15 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Clare in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 111, most common first
DunlinCalidris alpinaWinter visitorCommon16–22 cmRegularly May–Mar
CuckooCuculus canorusPassage migrantCommon32–34 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Little EgretEgretta garzettaResidentCommon55–65 cmRecorded all year
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaPassage migrantCommon50–58 cmRegularly Aug–Sep
RedwingTurdus iliacusWinter visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaWinter visitorCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusPassage migrantCommon40–46 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
Brent GooseBranta berniclaWinter visitorCommon55–66 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Arctic TernSterna paradisaeaPassage migrantCommon33–39 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Rock DoveColumba liviaSummer visitorCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusWinter visitorCommon28–31 cmRegularly Sep–Feb
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaWinter visitorCommon58–67 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusResidentCommon52–64 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Black GuillemotCepphus grylleResidentCommon30–32 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxSummer visitorCommon39–43 cmRecorded all year
WheatearOenanthe oenantheSummer visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
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





