Birds to See in Derry in January
25 species listed for January · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
25 bird species on our list for Derry are recorded regularly in January. Of these, the most often recorded are European Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Great Cormorant, Black-headed Gull and Ruddy Turnstone. New this month: Chaffinch, Eider, Purple Sandpiper and Dunlin.
Residents
(14)Recorded all year
Great Black-backed Gull
Larus marinusLC
Recorded all year
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Recorded all year
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Recorded all year
Pied Wagtail
Motacilla albaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Haematopus ostralegusNT
Recorded all year
Rook
Corvus frugilegusLC
Recorded all year
European Robin
Erithacus rubeculaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Blackbird
Turdus merulaLC
Regularly Dec–Oct
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Apr–Jan
Dunlin
Calidris alpinaLC
Regularly Apr–Jan
Summer visitors
(8)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
European Herring Gull
Larus argentatusLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
European Shag
Gulosus aristotelisLC
Regularly Apr–Jan
Rock Pipit
Anthus petrosusLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Curlew
Numenius arquataNT
Regularly Mar–Jan
Eider
Somateria mollissimaNT
Regularly Jan–Sep
Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Regularly Jan–Sep
Meadow Pipit
Anthus pratensisLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Passage migrants
(3)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
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