Birds of Northumberland
416 bird species have been recorded in Northumberland on the eBird network — explore the 416 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
416 bird species have been recorded in Northumberland on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 416 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
Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American PipitAnthus rubescens
American WigeonMareca americana
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
Asian Desert WarblerCurruca nana
Atlantic PuffinFratercula arctica
Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
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
Bearded ReedlingPanurus biarmicus
Black GrouseLyrurus tetrix
Black GuillemotCepphus grylle
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
Black ScoterMelanitta americana
Black SwanCygnus atratus
Black TernChlidonias niger
Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
Black-faced BuntingEmberiza spodocephala
Black-headed BuntingEmberiza melanocephala
The full checklist — 416 birds of Northumberland in our library
- Alexandrine Parakeet
- Alpine Swift
- American Golden Plover
- American Pipit
- American Wigeon
- Arctic Tern
- Arctic Warbler
- Asian Desert Warbler
- Atlantic Puffin
- Baikal Teal
- 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 Grouse
- Black Guillemot
- Black Kite
- Black Redstart
- Black Scoter
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-faced Bunting
- Black-headed Bunting
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-throated Loon
- Black-throated Thrush
- Black-winged Pratincole
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-winged Teal
- Bluethroat
- Blyth’s Reed Warbler
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Booted Warbler
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Brown Booby
- Brown Shrike
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Cackling Goose
- Canada Goose
- Carrion Crow
- Caspian Gull
- Caspian Tern
- Cetti’s Warbler
- Chilean Flamingo
- Chimney Swift
- Cinnamon Teal
- Citrine Wagtail
- Coal Tit
- 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 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 Tit
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Desert Wheatear
- Dunlin
- Dunnock
- Dusky Warbler
- Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler
- Eastern Subalpine Warbler
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Egyptian Goose
- Emperor Goose
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Blackcap
- Eurasian Blue Tit
- Eurasian Bullfinch
- Eurasian Chaffinch
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Coot
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Dotterel
- Eurasian Eagle-Owl
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- Eurasian Goshawk
- Eurasian Hobby
- Eurasian Jay
- Eurasian Magpie
- Eurasian Nuthatch
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- 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 Roller
- European Shag
- European Stonechat
- European Storm Petrel
- European Turtle Dove
- Ferruginous Duck
- Fieldfare
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Goldcrest
- Golden Eagle
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Shearwater
- Great Skua
- Great Snipe
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Great White Pelican
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Sand Plover
- Greater Scaup
- Greater Short-toed Lark
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenish Warbler
- Grey Heron
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Grey-headed Lapwing
- 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 Golden Oriole
- Indian Peafowl
- Isabelline Shrike
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Ivory Gull
- Jack Snipe
- Kentish Plover
- King Eider
- Lapland Longspur
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Crested Tern
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Lesser White-fronted Goose
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Little Auk
- Little Bittern
- Little Bunting
- 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
- Marbled Duck
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Marsh Tit
- Marsh Warbler
- Meadow Pipit
- Mediterranean Gull
- Merlin
- Mistle Thrush
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Ortolan Bunting
- Osprey
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Loon
- Pacific Swift
- Paddyfield Warbler
- Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
- Pallid Swift
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Parrot Crossbill
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Avocet
- 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 Grouse
- Red Junglefowl
- 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-legged Partridge
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-throated Pipit
- Redpoll
- Redwing
- Reeves’s Pheasant
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ring Ouzel
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- River Warbler
- 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
- Rustic Bunting
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Sandwich Tern
- Sedge Warbler
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Short-eared Owl
- Siberian Accentor
- Siberian Stonechat
- Silver Teal
- Smew
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Sociable Lapwing
- Soft-plumaged Petrel
- Song Thrush
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- South African Shelduck
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Squacco Heron
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Stock Dove
- Surf Scoter
- Swan Goose
- Sykes’s Warbler
- Taiga Bean Goose
- Tawny Owl
- Temminck’s Stint
- Terek Sandpiper
- Thick-billed Murre
- Thrush Nightingale
- Tree Pipit
- Tufted Duck
- Tundra Bean Goose
- Tundra Swan
- Twite
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Two-barred Warbler
- Velvet Scoter
- Water Pipit
- Water Rail
- Western Bonelli’s Warbler
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western House Martin
- Western Jackdaw
- Western Marsh Harrier
- Western Subalpine Warbler
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- Whinchat
- White Stork
- White Wagtail
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Eagle
- White-throated Dipper
- White-winged Scoter
- White-winged Tern
- White’s Thrush
- Whooper Swan
- Willow Tit
- Willow Warbler
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wood Duck
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Warbler
- Woodchat Shrike
- Woodlark
- Yelkouan Shearwater
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-breasted Bunting
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- 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 Northumberland?
416 species have been recorded in Northumberland on eBird; 416 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Northumberland 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.