Birds in Eilean Siar
166 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Eilean Siar has 166 bird species recorded regularly there: 43 residents, 61 summer visitors, 9 winter visitors, 41 passage migrants and 11 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 100,000 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 Eilean Siar in September
111 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.
European Herring Gull
Resident
Great Black-backed Gull
Resident
Meadow Pipit
Summer visitor
Common Starling
Resident
Curlew
Resident
Hooded Crow
Resident
Greylag Goose
Resident
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Resident
Arriving in September: Pink-footed Goose, Chiffchaff, Arctic Loon, Snow Bunting, Great Tit, Grey Plover, Horned Grebe, Brent Goose and 6 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Eilean Siar each month: most in October (128), fewest in February (48). Choose a month to see its birds.
All 166 birds on the list
Showing 162–166 of 166 species
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Oct
Common Quail
Coturnix coturnixLC
Regularly Jun
Spotted Flycatcher
Muscicapa striataLC
Regularly May–Jun
European Turtle-dove
Streptopelia turturVU
Regularly May
Corncrake
Crex crexLC
Frequently Asked Questions
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