Birds to See in Merthyr Tydfil in December
16 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
16 bird species on our list for Merthyr Tydfil are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are European Robin, Blue Tit, Magpie, Red Kite and Jackdaw. New this month: European Goldfinch, Dunnock, Long-tailed Tit and Treecreeper and 2 more.
Residents
(11)Recorded all year
Magpie
Pica picaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Red Kite
Milvus milvusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelisLC
Regularly Dec–Jun
Bullfinch
Pyrrhula pyrrhulaLC
Regularly Dec–May
Coal Tit
Periparus aterLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Long-tailed Tit
Aegithalos caudatusLC
Regularly Dec–May
Eurasian Siskin
Spinus spinusLC
Regularly Dec
Treecreeper
Certhia familiarisLC
Regularly Dec–Mar
Dunnock
Prunella modularisLC
Regularly Oct–May
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly May–Dec
Song Thrush
Turdus philomelosLC
Regularly Apr–Dec
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(4)Present outside the breeding season
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