Birds to See in Limerick in January
36 species listed for January · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
36 bird species on our list for Limerick are recorded regularly in January. Of these, the most often recorded are Black-headed Gull, Hooded Crow, Mallard, Rook and Blackbird. New this month: Eurasian Wigeon, Coot and Common Sandpiper.
New in January3
Residents
(24)Recorded all year
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Recorded all year

Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Recorded all year

Rook
Corvus frugilegusLC
Recorded all year

Blackbird
Turdus merulaLC
Recorded all year

Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year

Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year

Woodpigeon
Columba palumbusLC
Regularly Nov–Sep

European Herring Gull
Larus argentatusLC
Regularly Apr–Feb

European Robin
Erithacus rubeculaLC
Recorded all year

Mute Swan
Cygnus olorLC
Recorded all year

Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytesLC
Recorded all year

Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Recorded all year

Pied Wagtail
Motacilla albaLC
Recorded all year

Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleusLC
Recorded all year

Jackdaw
Coloeus monedulaLC
Recorded all year

Song Thrush
Turdus philomelosLC
Regularly Dec–Sep

Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Regularly Sep–Jul

Great Tit
Parus majorLC
Regularly Apr–Feb

Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Apr–Feb

Long-tailed Tit
Aegithalos caudatusLC
Regularly Apr–Jan

Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Apr–Feb

Coot
Fulica atraLC
Regularly May–Feb

Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Regularly May–Mar

European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelisLC
Regularly Dec–Sep
Winter visitors
(9)Present outside the breeding season
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Regularly Jun–Mar

Common Gull
Larus canusLC
Regularly Sep–May

Dunnock
Prunella modularisLC
Regularly Sep–Jun

Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Sep–Feb

Tufted Duck
Aythya fuligulaLC
Regularly Dec–Jun

Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Jun–Feb

Great Black-backed Gull
Larus marinusLC
Regularly Jul–Feb

Mistle Thrush
Turdus viscivorusLC
Regularly Sep–Jun

Bullfinch
Pyrrhula pyrrhulaLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Passage migrants
(3)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migrationData: 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


