Birds in Pembrokeshire
198 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Pembrokeshire has 198 bird species recorded regularly there: 58 residents, 43 summer visitors, 34 winter visitors, 54 passage migrants and 9 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 126,000 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 Pembrokeshire in September
147 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.

European Robin
Resident

Barn Swallow
Summer visitor

Jackdaw
Resident

European Herring Gull
Resident

Red-billed Chough
Summer visitor

Meadow Pipit
Resident

Pied Wagtail
Resident

Chiffchaff
Summer visitor
Arriving in September: Red-throated Loon, Merlin, Eurasian Wigeon, Mistle Thrush, Grasshopper Warbler, Dipper, Common Redstart, Grey Plover and 17 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Pembrokeshire each month: most in September (147), fewest in December (97). Choose a month to see its birds.
All 198 birds on the list
Showing 93–115 of 198 species

Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisusLC
Recorded all year

Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Apr–Nov

Bullfinch
Pyrrhula pyrrhulaLC
Regularly Apr–Feb

Northern Lapwing
Vanellus vanellusNT
Regularly Apr–Feb

Black Redstart
Phoenicurus ochrurosLC
Regularly Oct–May

Whinchat
Saxicola rubetraLC
Regularly Apr–Oct

Tufted Duck
Aythya fuligulaLC
Regularly Nov–May

Golden Plover
Pluvialis apricariaLC
Regularly Jan–Nov
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Mute Swan
Cygnus olorLC
Recorded all year

Black-tailed Godwit
Limosa limosaNT
Regularly Mar–Jan

Common Merganser
Mergus merganserLC
Regularly Nov–Feb

Greenfinch
Chloris chlorisLC
Recorded all year

Hen Harrier
Circus cyaneusLC
Regularly Oct–Jan

European Storm-petrel
Hydrobates pelagicusLC
Regularly Apr–Oct

Coot
Fulica atraLC
Regularly Jan–Nov

Eurasian Nuthatch
Sitta europaeaLC
Recorded all year

Wryneck
Jynx torquillaLC
Regularly Aug–Sep

Arctic Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticusLC
Regularly Jul–Nov

Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–May

Great Skua
Stercorarius skuaLC
Regularly Aug–Nov

Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Mar–Oct

Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Regularly Apr–Oct

Brambling
Fringilla montifringillaLC
Regularly Oct–Nov
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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