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
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisSummer visitorCommon36–41 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponicaWinter visitorCommon37–41 cmRegularly Aug–Mar
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serratorPassage migrantCommon52–58 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Jul
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaSummer visitorCommon58–67 cmRegularly Nov–Jul
Eurasian TealAnas creccaPassage migrantCommon34–38 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
GreenfinchChloris chlorisResidentCommon14–16 cmRegularly Mar–Jun
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon31–33 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
RedwingTurdus iliacusPassage migrantCommon20–24 cmRegularly Jan–Mar
WheatearOenanthe oenantheSummer visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly May–Oct
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaWinter visitorCommon40–44 cmRegularly Aug–Feb
DunlinCalidris alpinaWinter visitorCommon16–22 cmRegularly Aug–Feb
Red KnotCalidris canutusPassage migrantCommon23–26 cmRegularly Oct–Jan
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaPassage migrantCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Jan
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusPassage migrantCommon28–31 cmRegularly Oct–Jan
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusPassage migrantCommon46–51 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly May–Oct
FulmarFulmarus glacialisPassage migrantCommon45–50 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaSummer visitorCommon17–20 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoPassage migrantCommon25–27 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopePassage migrantCommon42–51 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
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