Birds of the United Kingdom
875 bird species have been recorded in the United Kingdom on the eBird network — explore the 874 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
875 bird species have been recorded in the United Kingdom on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 874 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 Black DuckAnas sparsa
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
African Hawk-EagleAquila spilogaster
African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
African SpoonbillPlatalea alba
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
Alpine AccentorPrunella collaris
Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American PipitAnthus rubescens
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
American RobinTurdus migratorius
American White IbisEudocimus albus
American WigeonMareca americana
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
Amur FalconFalco amurensis
Amur StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
Ancient MurreletSynthliboramphus antiquus
Aquatic WarblerAcrocephalus paludicola
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
The full checklist — 874 birds of the United Kingdom in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- African Black Duck
- African Collared Dove
- African Hawk-Eagle
- African Sacred Ibis
- African Spoonbill
- Alder Flycatcher
- Alexandrine Parakeet
- Alpine Accentor
- Alpine Swift
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Flamingo
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Herring Gull
- American Kestrel
- American Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American White Ibis
- American Wigeon
- American Yellow Warbler
- Amur Falcon
- Amur Stonechat
- Ancient Murrelet
- Aquatic Warbler
- Arctic Tern
- Arctic Warbler
- Ashy-headed Goose
- Asian Brown Flycatcher
- Asian Desert Warbler
- Atlantic Canary
- Atlantic Puffin
- Audouin’s Gull
- Australasian Shoveler
- Australian Boobook
- Australian Ringneck
- Australian Shelduck
- Baer’s Pochard
- Baikal Teal
- Baillon’s Crake
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Balearic Shearwater
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-rumped Storm Petrel
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barbary Partridge
- Barn Owl
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barolo Shearwater
- Barred Parakeet
- Barred Warbler
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bearded Reedling
- Bearded Vulture
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bernier’s Teal
- Bimaculated Lark
- Black Crake
- Black Grouse
- Black Guillemot
- Black Kite
- Black Lark
- Black Redstart
- Black Scoter
- Black Stork
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-breasted Thrush
- Black-browed Albatross
- Black-capped Parakeet
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-faced Bunting
- Black-faced Ibis
- Black-headed Bunting
- Black-headed Duck
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-headed Parrot
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Swan
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-throated Loon
- Black-throated Thrush
- Black-winged Kite
- Black-winged Pratincole
- Black-winged Red Bishop
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blossom-headed Parakeet
- Blue Jay
- Blue Rock Thrush
- Blue-and-yellow Macaw
- Blue-billed Teal
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-crowned Parakeet
- Blue-faced Honeyeater
- Blue-headed Parrot
- Blue-winged Goose
- Blue-winged Teal
- Bluethroat
- Blyth’s Pipit
- Blyth’s Reed Warbler
- Bobolink
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Booted Eagle
- Booted Warbler
- Boreal Owl
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Brown Booby
- Brown Eared Pheasant
- Brown Shrike
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Burrowing Owl
- Burrowing Parrot
- Cackling Goose
- Calandra Lark
- California Quail
- Canada Goose
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Cape Barren Goose
- Cape May Warbler
- Cape Teal
- Carrion Crow
- Caspian Gull
- Caspian Plover
- Caspian Tern
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cetti’s Warbler
- Chestnut Bunting
- Chestnut Munia
- Chestnut Teal
- Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
- Chestnut-eared Bunting
- Chilean Flamingo
- Chiloe Wigeon
- Chimney Swift
- Chinese Babax
- Chinese Grosbeak
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinereous Vulture
- Cinnamon Teal
- Cirl Bunting
- Citril Finch
- Citrine Wagtail
- Coal Tit
- Cockatiel
- Collared Flycatcher
- Collared Pratincole
- Comb Duck
- 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 Myna
- Common Nighthawk
- 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 Waxbill
- Common Whitethroat
- Common Wood Pigeon
- Common Yellowthroat
- Corn Bunting
- Corn Crake
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Coscoroba Swan
- Cream-colored Courser
- Crested Caracara
- Crested Lark
- Crested Tit
- Cretzschmar’s Bunting
- Crimson Rosella
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dalmatian Pelican
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dartford Warbler
- Daurian Starling
- Demoiselle Crane
- Desert Finch
- Desert Wheatear
- Desertas Petrel
- Diamond Dove
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Dunlin
- Dunnock
- Dusky Thrush
- Dusky Warbler
- Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
- Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler
- Eastern Cattle Egret
- Eastern Crowned Warbler
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
- Eastern Orphean Warbler
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
- Eastern Rosella
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck
- Eastern Subalpine Warbler
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Edwards’s Pheasant
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Nightjar
- Egyptian Vulture
- Elegant Tern
- Eleonora’s Falcon
- Elliot’s Laughingthrush
- Emperor Goose
- Emu
- Eskimo Curlew
- 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 Roller
- European Serin
- European Shag
- European Stonechat
- European Storm Petrel
- European Turtle Dove
- Eyebrowed Thrush
- Falcated Duck
- Ferruginous Duck
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Fieldfare
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Fischer’s Turaco
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Galah
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Goldcrest
- Golden Eagle
- Golden Pheasant
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Bustard
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Knot
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Shearwater
- Great Skua
- Great Snipe
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Great White Pelican
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Blue-eared Starling
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Rhea
- Greater Sand Plover
- Greater Scaup
- Greater Short-toed Lark
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green Parakeet
- Green Peafowl
- Green Pheasant
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Warbler
- Green-cheeked Parakeet
- Greenish Warbler
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Crowned Crane
- Grey Heron
- Grey Junglefowl
- Grey Parrot
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Grey-headed Gull
- Grey-headed Lapwing
- Grey-headed Swamphen
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Greyish Eagle-Owl
- Greylag Goose
- Gull-billed Tern
- Gyrfalcon
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Hawk
- Hawfinch
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Hen Harrier
- Hermit Thrush
- Hooded Crow
- Hooded Merganser
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Hume’s Leaf Warbler
- Iberian Chiffchaff
- Iceland Gull
- Icterine Warbler
- Inca Tern
- Indian Eagle-Owl
- Indian Golden Oriole
- Indian Peafowl
- Indian Pied Myna
- Indian Scops Owl
- Indian Spot-billed Duck
- Indian White-eye
- Indigo Bunting
- Isabelline Shrike
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Ivory Gull
- Jack Snipe
- Japanese Quail
- Java Sparrow
- Kalij Pheasant
- Kelp Gull
- Kentish Plover
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- Knob-billed Duck
- Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
- Lake Duck
- Lanceolated Warbler
- Lanner Falcon
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Dove
- Laughing Gull
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Laysan Duck
- Lazuli Bunting
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Least Bittern
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling
- Lesser Crested Tern
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Kestrel
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Lesser Whistling Duck
- Lesser White-fronted Goose
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Auk
- Little Bittern
- Little Bunting
- Little Bustard
- Little Crake
- Little Curlew
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Gull
- Little Owl
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- Little Tern
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Murrelet
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-tailed Shrike
- Long-tailed Tit
- Long-toed Stint
- Lord Derby’s Parakeet
- Maccoa Duck
- Madagascar Partridge
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Maned Duck
- Manx Shearwater
- Marbled Duck
- Marmora’s Warbler
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Marsh Tit
- Marsh Warbler
- Masked Shrike
- Meadow Bunting
- Meadow Pipit
- Mealy Amazon
- Mediterranean Gull
- Meller’s Duck
- Melodious Warbler
- Merlin
- Meyer’s Parrot
- Military Macaw
- Mistle Thrush
- Moltoni’s Warbler
- Monk Parakeet
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Mourning Dove
- Moussier’s Redstart
- Mugimaki Flycatcher
- Mulga Parrot
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nanday Parakeet
- Naumann’s Thrush
- Nene
- New Zealand Scaup
- Northern Bald Ibis
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Hawk-Owl
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Nutcracker
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Red Bishop
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Waterthrush
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Olive-tree Warbler
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill
- Orange-headed Thrush
- Orange-winged Amazon
- Oriental Pratincole
- Oriental Turtle Dove
- Ortolan Bunting
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Loon
- Pacific Parrotlet
- Pacific Swift
- Paddyfield Pipit
- Paddyfield Warbler
- Painted Bunting
- Pale-headed Rosella
- Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
- Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
- Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
- Pallas’s Reed Bunting
- Pallas’s Rosefinch
- Pallas’s Sandgrouse
- Pallid Harrier
- Pallid Swift
- Papuan Eclectus
- Paradise Shelduck
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Parrot Crossbill
- Pechora Pipit
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Philippine Duck
- Pied Avocet
- Pied Crow
- Pied Wheatear
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Pine Bunting
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pink-footed Goose
- Plum-headed Parakeet
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Puna Teal
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Heron
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Purple Starling
- Radde’s Warbler
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Razorbill
- Red Crossbill
- Red Grouse
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Kite
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Shoveler
- Red-and-green Macaw
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Chough
- Red-billed Leiothrix
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-billed Teal
- Red-billed Tropicbird
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Red-breasted Goose
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Parakeet
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-crested Cardinal
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-crowned Amazon
- Red-crowned Parakeet
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-flanked Bluetail
- Red-footed Booby
- Red-footed Falcon
- Red-fronted Parrot
- Red-fronted Serin
- Red-headed Bunting
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-lored Amazon
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-rumped Parrot
- Red-shouldered Macaw
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-throated Parrotfinch
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-throated Thrush
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Redwing
- Reeves’s Pheasant
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ring Ouzel
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Teal
- River Warbler
- Rock Bunting
- Rock Dove
- Rock Ptarmigan
- Rock Sparrow
- Rook
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Tern
- Ross’s Goose
- Ross’s Gull
- Rosy Starling
- Rosy-billed Pochard
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Royal Tern
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous-collared Sparrow
- Rufous-tailed Robin
- Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
- Rüppell’s Parrot
- Rüppell’s Vulture
- Rüppell’s Warbler
- Rustic Bunting
- Sabine’s Gull
- Saffron Finch
- Saker Falcon
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Sandwich Tern
- Sardinian Warbler
- Satyr Tragopan
- Savannah Sparrow
- Savi’s Warbler
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scaly-headed Parrot
- Scarlet Ibis
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scarlet-headed Blackbird
- Scopoli’s Shearwater
- Scottish Crossbill
- Sedge Warbler
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Senegal Parrot
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-eared Owl
- Short-toed Snake Eagle
- Short-toed Treecreeper
- Siberian Accentor
- Siberian Blue Robin
- Siberian Long-tailed Rosefinch
- Siberian Rubythroat
- Siberian Sand Plover
- Siberian Stonechat
- Siberian Thrush
- Silver Gull
- Silver Pheasant
- Silver Teal
- Silvereye
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Slender-billed Gull
- Smew
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Sociable Lapwing
- Soft-plumaged Petrel
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Solomons Corella
- Song Sparrow
- Song Thrush
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- South African Shelduck
- South Polar Skua
- Southern Masked Weaver
- Southern Red Bishop
- Southern White-faced Owl
- Spanish Sparrow
- Spectacled Warbler
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Eagle-Owl
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Spur-winged Lapwing
- Squacco Heron
- Stejneger’s Scoter
- Steller’s Eider
- Steller’s Sea Eagle
- Steppe Eagle
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Stock Dove
- Streaky-headed Seedeater
- Striped Owl
- Sudan Golden Sparrow
- Sulphur-bellied Warbler
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Sun Parakeet
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Superb Parrot
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swan Goose
- Swift Parrot
- Swinhoe’s Pheasant
- Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel
- Sykes’s Warbler
- Taiga Bean Goose
- Taiga Flycatcher
- Tanimbar Corella
- Tawny Owl
- Tawny Pipit
- Temminck’s Stint
- Temminck’s Tragopan
- Tennessee Warbler
- Terek Sandpiper
- Thick-billed Murre
- Thick-billed Warbler
- Thrush Nightingale
- Tibetan Sand Plover
- Timneh Parrot
- Tree Pipit
- Tree Swallow
- Trumpeter Finch
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tufted Puffin
- Tundra Bean Goose
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Turquoise-fronted Amazon
- Twite
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Two-barred Warbler
- Upland Goose
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Veery
- Velvet Scoter
- Venezuelan Parakeet
- Verditer Flycatcher
- Village Weaver
- Wallcreeper
- Wandering Whistling Duck
- Water Pipit
- Water Rail
- Western Black-eared Wheatear
- Western Bonelli’s Warbler
- Western Capercaillie
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western House Martin
- Western Jackdaw
- Western Marsh Harrier
- Western Olivaceous Warbler
- Western Orphean Warbler
- Western Reef Heron
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Subalpine Warbler
- Western Swamphen
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- Whinchat
- Whiskered Tern
- White Stork
- White Wagtail
- White-backed Vulture
- White-capped Redstart
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-cheeked Turaco
- White-crowned Parrot
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-crowned Wheatear
- White-eared Bulbul
- White-eyed Parakeet
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- White-headed Duck
- White-headed Munia
- White-headed Pigeon
- White-rumped Munia
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-rumped Swift
- White-tailed Eagle
- White-tailed Lapwing
- White-throated Dipper
- White-throated Needletail
- White-throated Robin
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Scoter
- White-winged Tern
- White’s Thrush
- Whooper Swan
- Wild Turkey
- Willow Tit
- Willow Warbler
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Wood Duck
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Thrush
- Wood Warbler
- Woodchat Shrike
- Woodlark
- Yelkouan Shearwater
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-billed Pintail
- Yellow-billed Teal
- Yellow-breasted Bunting
- Yellow-browed Bunting
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- Yellow-crowned Amazon
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Yellow-faced Parrot
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-headed Amazon
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-legged Gull
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellowhammer
- Zitting Cisticola
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Birds of the United Kingdom by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of the United Kingdom (115 species)
- Parrots, Cockatoos & Allies of the United Kingdom (59 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of the United Kingdom (54 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of the United Kingdom (45 species)
- Old World Flycatchers & Chats of the United Kingdom (35 species)
- Hawks, Eagles & Kites of the United Kingdom (29 species)
- True Finches of the United Kingdom (29 species)
- Pheasants, Grouse & Allies of the United Kingdom (28 species)
- Thrushes of the United Kingdom (22 species)
- Old World Buntings of the United Kingdom (19 species)
- Owls of the United Kingdom (19 species)
- Plovers of the United Kingdom (19 species)
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 the United Kingdom?
875 species have been recorded in the United Kingdom on eBird; 874 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in the United Kingdom 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.