Common Birds in Limerick
Our list for Limerick has 77 common birds recorded regularly there: 41 residents, 12 summer visitors, 9 winter visitors, 11 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Limerick in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 77, most common first
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRegularly Apr–Feb
KestrelFalco tinnunculusSummer visitorCommon32–39 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRegularly Dec–Sep
DunnockPrunella modularisWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusWinter visitorCommon52–64 cmRegularly Jun–Feb
Common GullLarus canusWinter visitorCommon40–46 cmRegularly Sep–May
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRegularly Dec–Sep
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Mar–Jul
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Aug
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatusResidentCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Jul
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopePassage migrantCommon42–51 cmRegularly Jan–Mar
Coal TitPeriparus aterResidentCommon10–12 cmRegularly Apr–Dec
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRegularly May–Mar
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisResidentCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–Dec
Eurasian TealAnas creccaPassage migrantCommon34–38 cmRegularly Sep–Jan
Common RavenCorvus coraxSummer visitorCommon54–67 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusResidentCommon32–35 cmRegularly Nov–Dec
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaWinter visitorCommon40–47 cmRegularly Dec–Jun
RedshankTringa totanusWinter visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Sep–Feb
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