Birds in Derry
119 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Derry has 119 bird species recorded regularly there: 42 residents, 37 summer visitors, 29 passage migrants and 11 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 16,000 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 Derry in September
68 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.
European Herring Gull
Summer visitor
Jackdaw
Summer visitor
Rook
Resident
Common Starling
Resident
Black-headed Gull
Resident
Great Cormorant
Resident
Hooded Crow
Summer visitor
Great Black-backed Gull
Resident
Arriving in September: Common Shelduck, Eurasian Teal, Golden Plover, Common Tern, Brent Goose, Greenshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, Peregrine Falcon and 2 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Derry each month: most in July (82), fewest in January (25). Choose a month to see its birds.
All 119 birds on the list
Showing 116–119 of 119 species
Great Skua
Stercorarius skuaLC
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Regularly Jul
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Stock Dove
Columba oenasLC
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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