Common Birds in Waterford
Our list for Waterford has 95 common birds recorded regularly there: 35 residents, 24 summer visitors, 10 winter visitors, 23 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Waterford in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 95, most common first
Rock DoveColumba liviaSummer visitorCommon29–37 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
MagpiePica picaResidentCommon44–46 cmRecorded all year
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRecorded all year
RedshankTringa totanusWinter visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Jun–Mar
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
Great TitParus majorWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Brent GooseBranta berniclaWinter visitorCommon55–66 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisResidentCommon14–15 cmRegularly May–Mar
LinnetLinaria cannabinaSummer visitorCommon13–14 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
GoldcrestRegulus regulusResidentCommon9–10 cmRecorded all year
Northern GannetMorus bassanusPassage migrantCommon87–100 cmRegularly May–Oct
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusResidentCommon52–64 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRegularly Oct–Aug
Common GullLarus canusWinter visitorCommon40–46 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxSummer visitorCommon39–43 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
BuzzardButeo buteoSummer visitorCommon51–57 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
MallardAnas platyrhynchosSummer visitorCommon50–65 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Common RavenCorvus coraxSummer visitorCommon54–67 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
GreenshankTringa nebulariaWinter visitorCommon30–35 cmRegularly Jul–Mar
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresWinter visitorCommon21–24 cmRegularly Aug–Feb
Rock PipitAnthus petrosusWinter visitorCommon16–18 cmRegularly May–Mar
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
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