Birds in Spain
307 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Spain has 307 bird species recorded regularly there: 130 residents, 54 summer visitors, 84 winter visitors, 35 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 28 million 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 Spain in September
257 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.
House Sparrow
Resident
Woodpigeon
Resident
Blackbird
Resident
Barn Swallow
Summer visitor
Grey Heron
Resident
Magpie
Resident
European Pied Flycatcher
Passage migrant
Mallard
Resident
Arriving in September: Chiffchaff, Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Golden Plover, Merlin, Little Gull, Spotted Crake, Leach's Storm-petrel and 6 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Spain each month: most in October (261), fewest in June (219). Choose a month to see its birds.
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White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Oct–Nov
Smew
Mergellus albellusLC
Common Rosefinch
Carpodacus erythrinusLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Little Auk
Alle alleLC
Regularly Nov–Jan
American Herring Gull
Larus smithsonianusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Budgerigar
Melopsittacus undulatusLC
Recorded all year
Cockatiel
Nymphicus hollandicusLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Regularly Jan–Nov
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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