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 93–115 of 163 species

Buzzard
Buteo buteoLC
Recorded all year

Greylag Goose
Anser anserLC
Regularly Nov–Aug

Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year

Red-throated Loon
Gavia stellataLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Whitethroat
Curruca communisLC
Regularly Apr–Jul

Coot
Fulica atraLC
Recorded all year

Gadwall
Mareca streperaLC
Regularly May–Mar

Greenfinch
Chloris chlorisLC
Recorded all year
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Reed Bunting
Emberiza schoeniclusLC
Recorded all year

Arctic Loon
Gavia arcticaLC
Regularly Nov–Apr

Long-tailed Jaeger
Stercorarius longicaudusLC
Regularly Aug–Sep

Balearic Shearwater
Puffinus mauretanicusCR
Regularly Aug–Sep

Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeataLC
Regularly Oct–Mar

Long-tailed Tit
Aegithalos caudatusLC
Recorded all year

Bar-tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponicaNT
Regularly Aug–May

Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Jan–Nov

Grey Wagtail
Motacilla cinereaLC
Recorded all year

Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar

Grey Phalarope
Phalaropus fulicariusLC
Regularly Aug–Oct

Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisusLC
Recorded all year

Sedge Warbler
Acrocephalus schoenobaenusLC
Regularly Apr–Sep

Eurasian Siskin
Spinus spinusLC
Recorded all year

Leach's Storm-petrel
Hydrobates leucorhousVU
Regularly Aug–Sep
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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