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 70–92 of 163 species

Great Shearwater
Ardenna gravisLC
Regularly Aug

Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year

Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr

Red-breasted Merganser
Mergus serratorLC
Regularly Oct–Mar

Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly May–Mar

Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year

Sabine's Gull
Xema sabiniLC
Regularly Aug–Oct

Common Pheasant
Phasianus colchicusLC
Recorded all year
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Pomarine Jaeger
Stercorarius pomarinusLC
Regularly Aug–Sep

Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year

Coal Tit
Periparus aterLC
Recorded all year

Great Crested Grebe
Podiceps cristatusLC
Recorded all year

Tufted Duck
Aythya fuligulaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr

Goldcrest
Regulus regulusLC
Recorded all year

Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Apr–Sep

Mistle Thrush
Turdus viscivorusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul

Bullfinch
Pyrrhula pyrrhulaLC
Regularly Oct–Aug

Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinagoLC
Regularly Jun–Apr

Chiffchaff
Phylloscopus collybitaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct

Whooper Swan
Cygnus cygnusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Common Scoter
Melanitta nigraLC
Regularly Jul–Apr

Golden Plover
Pluvialis apricariaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr

Fieldfare
Turdus pilarisLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
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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