Birds in South Lanarkshire
106 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for South Lanarkshire has 106 bird species recorded regularly there: 57 residents, 25 summer visitors, 6 winter visitors, 12 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 17,000 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 South Lanarkshire in September
68 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.

Woodpigeon
Resident

Jackdaw
Resident

Carrion Crow
Resident

European Robin
Resident

Magpie
Resident

Mallard
Resident

Buzzard
Resident

Lesser Black-backed Gull
Resident
Arriving in September: Common Starling, Dunnock, House Sparrow, Meadow Pipit, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wigeon, Common Gull, Reed Bunting and 5 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in South Lanarkshire each month: most in May (85), fewest in December (48). Choose a month to see its birds.
All 106 birds on the list
Showing 47–69 of 106 species

Eurasian Teal
Anas creccaLC
Recorded all year

Eurasian Skylark
Alauda arvensisLC
Regularly Apr–Jul

Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Aug–May

Eurasian Jay
Garrulus glandariusLC
Regularly Mar–Jan

Bullfinch
Pyrrhula pyrrhulaLC
Recorded all year

Common Merganser
Mergus merganserLC
Regularly Oct–Jun

Canada Goose
Branta canadensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jul

Dipper
Cinclus cinclusLC
Regularly Apr–Jan
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Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinagoLC
Regularly May–Dec

Tufted Duck
Aythya fuligulaLC
Recorded all year

Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Regularly Jul–May

Common Swift
Apus apusLC
Regularly May–Aug

Treecreeper
Certhia familiarisLC
Recorded all year

Curlew
Numenius arquataNT
Regularly Feb–Oct

Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Aug–Nov

Gadwall
Mareca streperaLC
Regularly Feb–Nov

Pink-footed Goose
Anser brachyrhynchusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar

Whooper Swan
Cygnus cygnusLC
Regularly Oct–Nov

Eurasian Wigeon
Mareca penelopeLC
Regularly Sep–May

Common Gull
Larus canusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul

Reed Bunting
Emberiza schoeniclusLC
Regularly Mar–Dec

Mistle Thrush
Turdus viscivorusLC
Regularly Sep–May

Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
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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