Birds of Kent
463 bird species have been recorded in Kent on the eBird network — explore the 463 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
463 bird species have been recorded in Kent on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 463 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.
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Birds to know first
Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
Alpine AccentorPrunella collaris
Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American White IbisEudocimus albus
American WigeonMareca americana
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
Amur StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
Aquatic WarblerAcrocephalus paludicola
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
Asian Desert WarblerCurruca nana
Atlantic CanarySerinus canaria
Atlantic PuffinFratercula arctica
Audouin’s GullIchthyaetus audouinii
Australian ShelduckTadorna tadornoides
Baillon’s CrakeZapornia pusilla
Baird’s SandpiperCalidris bairdii
Balearic ShearwaterPuffinus mauretanicus
Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
Barn OwlTyto alba
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
Barred WarblerCurruca nisoria
The full checklist — 463 birds of Kent in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- African Sacred Ibis
- Alexandrine Parakeet
- Alpine Accentor
- Alpine Swift
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Golden Plover
- American Herring Gull
- American White Ibis
- American Wigeon
- American Yellow Warbler
- Amur Stonechat
- Aquatic Warbler
- Arctic Tern
- Arctic Warbler
- Asian Desert Warbler
- Atlantic Canary
- Atlantic Puffin
- Audouin’s Gull
- Australian Shelduck
- Baillon’s Crake
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Balearic Shearwater
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barn Owl
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barred Warbler
- Bearded Reedling
- Black Guillemot
- Black Kite
- Black Redstart
- Black Stork
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black-browed Albatross
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Bunting
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-throated Loon
- Black-winged Pratincole
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-winged Teal
- Bluethroat
- Blyth’s Pipit
- Blyth’s Reed Warbler
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Booted Eagle
- Booted Warbler
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Brown Booby
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Cackling Goose
- Canada Goose
- Canvasback
- Cape Barren Goose
- Carrion Crow
- Caspian Gull
- Caspian Tern
- Cetti’s Warbler
- Chilean Flamingo
- Chiloe Wigeon
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Cinnamon Teal
- Cirl Bunting
- Citrine Wagtail
- Coal Tit
- Cockatiel
- Collared Flycatcher
- Collared Pratincole
- Common Blackbird
- Common Buzzard
- Common Chiffchaff
- Common Crane
- Common Cuckoo
- Common Eider
- Common Firecrest
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grasshopper Warbler
- Common Greenshank
- Common Gull
- Common Hoopoe
- Common Kestrel
- Common Kingfisher
- Common Linnet
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Moorhen
- Common Murre
- Common Nightingale
- Common Pheasant
- Common Pochard
- Common Quail
- Common Redshank
- Common Redstart
- Common Reed Bunting
- Common Reed Warbler
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Rock Thrush
- Common Rosefinch
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Scoter
- Common Shelduck
- Common Snipe
- Common Starling
- Common Swift
- Common Tern
- Common Whitethroat
- Common Wood Pigeon
- Corn Bunting
- Corn Crake
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Crested Lark
- Crimson Rosella
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dartford Warbler
- Desert Finch
- Desert Wheatear
- Dunlin
- Dunnock
- Dusky Thrush
- Dusky Warbler
- Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler
- Eastern Subalpine Warbler
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Egyptian Goose
- Eleonora’s Falcon
- Emperor Goose
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Blackcap
- Eurasian Blue Tit
- Eurasian Bullfinch
- Eurasian Chaffinch
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Coot
- Eurasian Crag Martin
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Dotterel
- Eurasian Eagle-Owl
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- Eurasian Goshawk
- Eurasian Hobby
- Eurasian Jay
- Eurasian Magpie
- Eurasian Nuthatch
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Eurasian Penduline Tit
- Eurasian Scops Owl
- Eurasian Siskin
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Eurasian Stone-curlew
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Treecreeper
- Eurasian Whimbrel
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Eurasian Woodcock
- Eurasian Wren
- Eurasian Wryneck
- European Bee-eater
- European Golden Plover
- European Goldfinch
- European Green Woodpecker
- European Greenfinch
- European Herring Gull
- European Honey Buzzard
- European Nightjar
- European Pied Flycatcher
- European Red-rumped Swallow
- European Robin
- European Rock Pipit
- European Serin
- European Shag
- European Stonechat
- European Storm Petrel
- European Turtle Dove
- Falcated Duck
- Ferruginous Duck
- Fieldfare
- Forster’s Tern
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Goldcrest
- Golden Pheasant
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Bustard
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Shearwater
- Great Skua
- Great Snipe
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Great White Pelican
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Scaup
- Greater Short-toed Lark
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenish Warbler
- Grey Heron
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Greylag Goose
- Gull-billed Tern
- Gyrfalcon
- Harris’s Hawk
- Hawfinch
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Hen Harrier
- Hooded Crow
- Hooded Merganser
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Sparrow
- Hume’s Leaf Warbler
- Iberian Chiffchaff
- Iceland Gull
- Icterine Warbler
- Indian Peafowl
- Isabelline Shrike
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Jack Snipe
- Japanese Quail
- Kentish Plover
- King Eider
- Lapland Longspur
- Laughing Gull
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Least Sandpiper
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Crested Tern
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Lesser White-fronted Goose
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Little Auk
- Little Bittern
- Little Bunting
- Little Crake
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Gull
- Little Owl
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-tailed Tit
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Manx Shearwater
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Marsh Tit
- Marsh Warbler
- Masked Shrike
- Meadow Pipit
- Mediterranean Gull
- Melodious Warbler
- Merlin
- Mistle Thrush
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Nanday Parakeet
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Nutcracker
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Oriental Pratincole
- Oriental Turtle Dove
- Ortolan Bunting
- Osprey
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Paddyfield Warbler
- Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
- Pallid Harrier
- Pallid Swift
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Parrot Crossbill
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Avocet
- Pied Crow
- Pied Wheatear
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pine Bunting
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pink-footed Goose
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Purple Heron
- Purple Sandpiper
- Radde’s Warbler
- Razorbill
- Red Crossbill
- Red Kite
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Chough
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Red-breasted Goose
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-flanked Bluetail
- Red-footed Falcon
- Red-headed Bunting
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-throated Pipit
- Redpoll
- Redwing
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ring Ouzel
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Teal
- Rock Dove
- Rook
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Tern
- Ross’s Goose
- Ross’s Gull
- Rosy Starling
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rustic Bunting
- Sabine’s Gull
- Saker Falcon
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandwich Tern
- Sardinian Warbler
- Savi’s Warbler
- Scarlet Ibis
- Sedge Warbler
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Short-eared Owl
- Short-toed Snake Eagle
- Short-toed Treecreeper
- Siberian Stonechat
- Silver Pheasant
- Slender-billed Gull
- Smew
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Sociable Lapwing
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Thrush
- Sooty Shearwater
- South African Shelduck
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spur-winged Lapwing
- Squacco Heron
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Stock Dove
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Surf Scoter
- Swan Goose
- Taiga Bean Goose
- Tawny Owl
- Tawny Pipit
- Temminck’s Stint
- Terek Sandpiper
- Thick-billed Murre
- Thrush Nightingale
- Tree Pipit
- Trumpeter Finch
- Tufted Duck
- Tufted Puffin
- Tundra Bean Goose
- Tundra Swan
- Twite
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Goose
- Velvet Scoter
- Water Pipit
- Water Rail
- Western Black-eared Wheatear
- Western Bonelli’s Warbler
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western House Martin
- Western Jackdaw
- Western Marsh Harrier
- Western Subalpine Warbler
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- Whinchat
- Whiskered Tern
- White Stork
- White Wagtail
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-headed Duck
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Eagle
- White-tailed Lapwing
- White-throated Dipper
- White-winged Tern
- Whooper Swan
- Willow Tit
- Willow Warbler
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wood Duck
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Warbler
- Woodchat Shrike
- Woodlark
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-browed Bunting
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-legged Gull
- Yellowhammer
- Zitting Cisticola
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Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in Kent?
463 species have been recorded in Kent on eBird; 463 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Kent right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.