Birds in North Lanarkshire
85 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for North Lanarkshire has 85 bird species recorded regularly there: 47 residents, 10 summer visitors, 11 winter visitors, 11 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 8,438 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 North Lanarkshire in September
38 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.

Woodpigeon
Resident

Magpie
Resident

Carrion Crow
Resident

Lesser Black-backed Gull
Resident

Jackdaw
Resident

Mallard
Resident

European Herring Gull
Resident

European Robin
Resident
Arriving in September: Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Greylag Goose, Tufted Duck, Great Tit, Canada Goose, House Sparrow, Great Black-backed Gull and 5 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in North Lanarkshire each month: most in May (55), fewest in August (28). Choose a month to see its birds.
All 85 birds on the list
Showing 1–23 of 85 species

Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year

Woodpigeon
Columba palumbusLC
Recorded all year

Carrion Crow
Corvus coroneLC
Recorded all year

Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Recorded all year

European Herring Gull
Larus argentatusLC
Recorded all year

Jackdaw
Coloeus monedulaLC
Recorded all year

European Robin
Erithacus rubeculaLC
Recorded all year

Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
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Blackbird
Turdus merulaLC
Recorded all year

Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Recorded all year

Mute Swan
Cygnus olorLC
Recorded all year

Common Gull
Larus canusLC
Regularly Sep–Jun

Common Merganser
Mergus merganserLC
Regularly Oct–May

Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Aug–Mar

Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleusLC
Recorded all year

Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Regularly Aug–Jun

Goldeneye
Bucephala clangulaLC
Regularly Nov–Mar

Greylag Goose
Anser anserLC
Regularly Sep–Jul

Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Recorded all year

European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelisLC
Recorded all year

Willow Warbler
Phylloscopus trochilusLC
Regularly Apr–Jun

Tufted Duck
Aythya fuligulaLC
Regularly Jun–Mar

Great Tit
Parus majorLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
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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