Birds of Merseyside
389 bird species have been recorded in Merseyside on the eBird network — explore the 389 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
389 bird species have been recorded in Merseyside on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 389 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
Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American WigeonMareca americana
Aquatic WarblerAcrocephalus paludicola
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
Asian Desert WarblerCurruca nana
Atlantic PuffinFratercula arctica
Australasian ShovelerSpatula rhynchotis
Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
Baird’s SandpiperCalidris bairdii
Balearic ShearwaterPuffinus mauretanicus
Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
Barbary PartridgeAlectoris barbara
Barn OwlTyto alba
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
Barolo ShearwaterPuffinus baroli
Barred WarblerCurruca nisoria
Bearded ReedlingPanurus biarmicus
Black CrakeZapornia flavirostra
Black GuillemotCepphus grylle
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
Black ScoterMelanitta americana
Black SwanCygnus atratus
Black TernChlidonias niger
Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
The full checklist — 389 birds of Merseyside in our library
- Alpine Swift
- American Golden Plover
- American Herring Gull
- American Wigeon
- Aquatic Warbler
- Arctic Tern
- Arctic Warbler
- Asian Desert Warbler
- Atlantic Puffin
- Australasian Shoveler
- Baikal Teal
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Balearic Shearwater
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barbary Partridge
- Barn Owl
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barolo Shearwater
- Barred Warbler
- Bearded Reedling
- Black Crake
- Black Guillemot
- Black Kite
- Black Redstart
- Black Scoter
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Bunting
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-throated Loon
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Jay
- Bluethroat
- Blyth’s Reed Warbler
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Cackling Goose
- Canada Goose
- Canvasback
- Carrion Crow
- Caspian Gull
- Cetti’s Warbler
- Cinnamon Teal
- Cirl Bunting
- Citrine Wagtail
- Coal Tit
- Cockatiel
- 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 Rosefinch
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Scoter
- Common Shelduck
- Common Snipe
- Common Starling
- Common Swift
- Common Tern
- Common Whitethroat
- Common Wood Pigeon
- Corn Bunting
- Corn Crake
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dartford Warbler
- Desert Wheatear
- Dunlin
- Dunnock
- Dusky Warbler
- Egyptian Goose
- Elegant Tern
- Eleonora’s Falcon
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Blackcap
- Eurasian Blue Tit
- Eurasian Bullfinch
- Eurasian Chaffinch
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Coot
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Dotterel
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- Eurasian Goshawk
- Eurasian Hobby
- Eurasian Jay
- Eurasian Magpie
- Eurasian Nuthatch
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- 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
- Ferruginous Duck
- Fieldfare
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Forster’s Tern
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Goldcrest
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Skua
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Scaup
- Greater Short-toed Lark
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenish Warbler
- Grey Heron
- Grey Parrot
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Greylag Goose
- Gull-billed Tern
- Harris’s Hawk
- Hawfinch
- Hen Harrier
- Hooded Crow
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Iberian Chiffchaff
- Iceland Gull
- Icterine Warbler
- Indian Peafowl
- Indian Scops Owl
- Jack Snipe
- Java Sparrow
- Kentish Plover
- Knob-billed Duck
- Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
- Lapland Longspur
- Laughing Gull
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Little Auk
- Little Bunting
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Gull
- Little Owl
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- 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
- Meadow Pipit
- Mediterranean Gull
- Melodious Warbler
- Merlin
- Mistle Thrush
- Monk Parakeet
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Osprey
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
- Pallid Harrier
- Pallid Swift
- Papuan Eclectus
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Avocet
- Pied Wheatear
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pink-footed Goose
- Pomarine Jaeger
- 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-crowned Amazon
- Red-crowned Parakeet
- Red-footed Falcon
- Red-fronted Serin
- Red-headed Bunting
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-throated Parrotfinch
- Red-throated Pipit
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Redwing
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ring Ouzel
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Rock Dove
- Rook
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Tern
- Ross’s Goose
- Ross’s Gull
- Rosy Starling
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous-collared Sparrow
- Rüppell’s Vulture
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandwich Tern
- Sardinian Warbler
- Savi’s Warbler
- Sedge Warbler
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Short-eared Owl
- Smew
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Song Sparrow
- Song Thrush
- Sooty Shearwater
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Redshank
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Stock Dove
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Surf Scoter
- Swan Goose
- Swift Parrot
- Taiga Bean Goose
- Tawny Owl
- Tawny Pipit
- Temminck’s Stint
- Terek Sandpiper
- Tree Pipit
- Tufted Duck
- Tundra Bean Goose
- Tundra Swan
- Twite
- Velvet Scoter
- Water Pipit
- Water Rail
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western House Martin
- Western Jackdaw
- Western Marsh Harrier
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- Whinchat
- White Stork
- White Wagtail
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-crowned Wheatear
- White-headed Duck
- White-headed Munia
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Eagle
- White-tailed Lapwing
- White-throated Dipper
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Tern
- Whooper Swan
- Willow Tit
- Willow Warbler
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wood Duck
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Warbler
- Woodchat Shrike
- Woodlark
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Yellow-faced Parrot
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-legged Gull
- Yellowhammer
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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 Merseyside?
389 species have been recorded in Merseyside on eBird; 389 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Merseyside 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.