Birds in Clare
163 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Clare has 163 bird species recorded regularly there: 60 residents, 26 summer visitors, 30 winter visitors, 43 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 72,000 birdwatchers' records from 2019–2024, shared through the eBird Observation Dataset on GBIF. A bird is listed when it was recorded in at least 3 of the 6 years and has a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur here than are listed; the months show when it is recorded most years.
Birds to see in Clare in September
116 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.

European Herring Gull
Resident

Rook
Resident

Pied Wagtail
Resident

Eurasian Oystercatcher
Resident

Hooded Crow
Resident

Barn Swallow
Summer visitor

Common Starling
Resident

Curlew
Winter visitor
Arriving in September: Common Loon, Eurasian Wigeon, Brent Goose, Northern Lapwing, Common Shelduck, Black Guillemot, Mistle Thrush, Red-throated Loon and 5 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Clare each month: most in September (116), fewest in June (92). Choose a month to see its birds.
All 163 birds on the list
Showing 24–46 of 163 species

Manx Shearwater
Puffinus puffinusLC
Regularly Mar–Oct

European Shag
Gulosus aristotelisLC
Recorded all year

Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year

Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year

Kittiwake
Rissa tridactylaVU
Recorded all year

Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year

Common Gull
Larus canusLC
Recorded all year

Eurasian Skylark
Alauda arvensisLC
Regularly Jan–Nov
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Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Recorded all year

Eurasian Wigeon
Mareca penelopeLC
Regularly Sep–Mar

Stonechat
Saxicola rubicolaLC
Recorded all year

Razorbill
Alca tordaLC
Recorded all year

Sooty Shearwater
Ardenna griseaNT
Regularly Jul–Oct

Willow Warbler
Phylloscopus trochilusLC
Regularly Apr–Oct

Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Jul–May

Eurasian Teal
Anas creccaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr

Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Jan–Oct

Mute Swan
Cygnus olorLC
Recorded all year

Arctic Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticusLC
Regularly Jul–Oct

Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleusLC
Recorded all year

European Storm-petrel
Hydrobates pelagicusLC
Regularly Jul–Oct

Great Tit
Parus majorLC
Recorded all year

Linnet
Linaria cannabinaLC
Regularly Jan–Nov
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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