Common Birds in Swansea
Our list for Swansea has 95 common birds recorded regularly there: 48 residents, 16 summer visitors, 25 winter visitors and 6 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Swansea in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 95, most common first
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaResidentCommon17–20 cmRecorded all year
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRecorded all year
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaWinter visitorCommon26–29 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaSummer visitorCommon37–41 cmRegularly Mar–Aug
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
European Green WoodpeckerPicus viridisResidentCommon30–36 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Jul–May
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresWinter visitorCommon21–24 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
FulmarFulmarus glacialisSummer visitorCommon45–50 cmRegularly Feb–Aug
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Northern GannetMorus bassanusSummer visitorCommon87–100 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Hen HarrierCircus cyaneusPassage migrantCommon41–52 cmRegularly Nov–Jan
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusWinter visitorCommon28–38 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusWinter visitorCommon46–51 cmRegularly Aug–Feb
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoPassage migrantCommon25–27 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Red KnotCalidris canutusPassage migrantCommon23–26 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Cetti's WarblerCettia cettiResidentCommon13–14 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaWinter visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Feb
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaWinter visitorCommon40–44 cmRegularly Aug–Feb
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisPassage migrantCommon36–41 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
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