Birds to See in West Dunbartonshire in December
27 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
27 bird species on our list for West Dunbartonshire are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Carrion Crow, Magpie, Blue Tit, Chaffinch and European Robin. New this month: European Herring Gull, Dunnock, Rook and Common Starling and 3 more.
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(22)Recorded all year
Carrion Crow
Corvus coroneLC
Recorded all year
Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year
Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleusLC
Recorded all year
Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Recorded all year
European Robin
Erithacus rubeculaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytesLC
Recorded all year
Great Tit
Parus majorLC
Recorded all year
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Blackbird
Turdus merulaLC
Recorded all year
European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelisLC
Recorded all year
Mute Swan
Cygnus olorLC
Recorded all year
Woodpigeon
Columba palumbusLC
Recorded all year
Coal Tit
Periparus aterLC
Recorded all year
Common Merganser
Mergus merganserLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Dunnock
Prunella modularisLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Jackdaw
Coloeus monedulaLC
Recorded all year
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Recorded all year
Rook
Corvus frugilegusLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Common Gull
Larus canusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Mandarin Duck
Aix galericulataLC
Regularly Dec–Jan
European Herring Gull
Larus argentatusLC
Regularly Dec–Oct
Winter visitors
(3)Present outside the breeding season
Passage migrants
(2)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