Birds in Waterford
113 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Waterford has 113 bird species recorded regularly there: 40 residents, 24 summer visitors, 10 winter visitors, 31 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 15,000 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 Waterford in September
58 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.

Rook
Resident

Hooded Crow
Resident

Black-headed Gull
Resident

European Herring Gull
Resident

Pied Wagtail
Resident

Barn Swallow
Summer visitor

Jackdaw
Resident

European Robin
Resident
Arriving in September: Common Gull, Greenshank, Whimbrel, European Shag, Long-tailed Tit, Spotted Flycatcher, Peregrine Falcon.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Waterford each month: most in May (79), fewest in November (36). Choose a month to see its birds.
All 113 birds on the list
Showing 1–23 of 113 species

European Robin
Erithacus rubeculaLC
Recorded all year

European Herring Gull
Larus argentatusLC
Recorded all year

Rook
Corvus frugilegusLC
Recorded all year

Blackbird
Turdus merulaLC
Recorded all year

Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly May–Oct

Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytesLC
Recorded all year

Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Recorded all year

Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Recorded all year
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Woodpigeon
Columba palumbusLC
Recorded all year

Pied Wagtail
Motacilla albaLC
Recorded all year

Jackdaw
Coloeus monedulaLC
Recorded all year

Curlew
Numenius arquataNT
Recorded all year

Eurasian Oystercatcher
Haematopus ostralegusNT
Regularly May–Mar

Stonechat
Saxicola rubicolaLC
Recorded all year

European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelisLC
Regularly Feb–Dec

House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year

Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Recorded all year

House Martin
Delichon urbicumLC
Regularly May–Sep

Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Recorded all year

Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year

Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleusLC
Recorded all year

Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year

Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
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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