Common Birds in Derry
Our list for Derry has 95 common birds recorded regularly there: 35 residents, 36 summer visitors, 22 passage migrants and 2 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Derry in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 95, most common first
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Rock PipitAnthus petrosusSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
European ShagGulosus aristotelisSummer visitorCommon65–80 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Northern GannetMorus bassanusSummer visitorCommon87–100 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisSummer visitorCommon14–15 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
EiderSomateria mollissimaSummer visitorCommon50–71 cmRegularly Jan–Sep
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosSummer visitorCommon20–23 cmRegularly Feb–Jul
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoSummer visitorCommon30–32 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
MallardAnas platyrhynchosSummer visitorCommon50–65 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusSummer visitorCommon52–64 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusResidentCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorusResidentCommon26–29 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisPassage migrantCommon36–41 cmRegularly May–Sep
CurlewNumenius arquataSummer visitorCommon50–60 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
GoldcrestRegulus regulusResidentCommon9–10 cmRegularly Feb–Sep
BuzzardButeo buteoSummer visitorCommon51–57 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaSummer visitorCommon58–67 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
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