Birds of Wales

458 bird species have been recorded in Wales on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 458 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

• African SpoonbillPlatalea alba
• Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
• Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
• Alpine AccentorPrunella collaris
• Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
• American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
• American Black DuckAnas rubripes
• American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
• American PipitAnthus rubescens
• American WigeonMareca americana
• Aquatic WarblerAcrocephalus paludicola
• Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
• Atlantic PuffinFratercula arctica
• Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
• Baillon’s CrakeZapornia pusilla
• Baird’s SandpiperCalidris bairdii
• Balearic ShearwaterPuffinus mauretanicus
• Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
• Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
• Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
• Barn OwlTyto alba
• Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
• Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
• Barolo ShearwaterPuffinus baroli
• Barred WarblerCurruca nisoria
• Bay-breasted WarblerSetophaga castanea
• Bearded ReedlingPanurus biarmicus
• Black GrouseLyrurus tetrix
• Black GuillemotCepphus grylle
• Black KiteMilvus migrans

The full checklist — 458 birds of Wales in our library

• African Spoonbill
• Alder Flycatcher
• Alexandrine Parakeet
• Alpine Accentor
• Alpine Swift
• American Bittern
• American Black Duck
• American Golden Plover
• American Pipit
• American Wigeon
• Aquatic Warbler
• Arctic Tern
• Atlantic Puffin
• Baikal Teal
• Baillon’s Crake
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Balearic Shearwater
• Baltimore Oriole
• Bar-headed Goose
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Barn Owl
• Barn Swallow
• Barnacle Goose
• Barolo Shearwater
• Barred Warbler
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Bearded Reedling
• Black Grouse
• Black Guillemot
• Black Kite
• Black Lark
• Black Redstart
• Black Scoter
• Black Stork
• Black Swan
• Black Tern
• Black-and-white Warbler
• 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-throated Thrush
• Black-winged Pratincole
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Blue-winged Teal
• Bluethroat
• Blyth’s Pipit
• Blyth’s Reed Warbler
• Bobolink
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Booted Warbler
• Brambling
• Brant Goose
• Bridled Tern
• Broad-billed Sandpiper
• Brown Shrike
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Budgerigar
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Bufflehead
• Canada Goose
• Canada Warbler
• Carrion Crow
• Caspian Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Cetti’s Warbler
• Chiloe Wigeon
• Cinereous Vulture
• Cirl Bunting
• Citrine Wagtail
• Coal Tit
• 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
• Common Yellowthroat
• Corn Bunting
• Corn Crake
• Cory’s Shearwater
• Cretzschmar’s Bunting
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Dartford Warbler
• Desert Wheatear
• Diamond Dove
• Dunlin
• Dunnock
• Dusky Warbler
• Eastern Subalpine Warbler
• Eastern Yellow Wagtail
• Egyptian Goose
• Elegant Tern
• 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 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
• Falcated Duck
• Ferruginous Duck
• Fieldfare
• Forster’s Tern
• Franklin’s Gull
• Gadwall
• Garden Warbler
• Garganey
• Glaucous Gull
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Glossy Ibis
• Goldcrest
• Golden Eagle
• Golden Pheasant
• 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 Cuckoo
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Great Tit
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Scaup
• Greater Short-toed Lark
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Green Heron
• Green Sandpiper
• Greenish Warbler
• Grey Catbird
• Grey Heron
• Grey Partridge
• Grey Plover
• Grey Wagtail
• Greylag Goose
• Gull-billed Tern
• Gyrfalcon
• Harris’s Hawk
• Hawfinch
• Hen Harrier
• Hooded Crow
• Hooded Merganser
• Horned Grebe
• Horned Lark
• House Sparrow
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Hudsonian Whimbrel
• Hume’s Leaf Warbler
• Iberian Chiffchaff
• Iceland Gull
• Icterine Warbler
• Indian Peafowl
• Indigo Bunting
• Isabelline Shrike
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Ivory Gull
• Jack Snipe
• Kentish Plover
• Killdeer
• King Eider
• Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
• Lapland Longspur
• Laughing Gull
• Leach’s Storm Petrel
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• 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 Curlew
• 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
• Magnolia Warbler
• Mallard
• Mandarin Duck
• Manx Shearwater
• Marmora’s Warbler
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Marsh Tit
• Marsh Warbler
• Meadow Pipit
• Mediterranean Gull
• Melodious Warbler
• Merlin
• Mistle Thrush
• Moltoni’s Warbler
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Moussier’s Redstart
• Muscovy Duck
• Mute Swan
• Myrtle Warbler
• Northern Bobwhite
• Northern Fulmar
• Northern Gannet
• Northern Lapwing
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Raven
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Wheatear
• Olive-backed Pipit
• Ortolan Bunting
• Osprey
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Pacific Loon
• Pacific Swift
• Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
• Pallid Harrier
• Pallid Swift
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Pechora Pipit
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Peregrine Falcon
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Wheatear
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pine Bunting
• Pink-footed Goose
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Purple Heron
• Purple Sandpiper
• Radde’s Warbler
• Razorbill
• Red Crossbill
• Red Grouse
• 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-breasted Grosbeak
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Roseate Tern
• Ross’s Goose
• Ross’s Gull
• Rosy Starling
• Rosy-faced Lovebird
• Rough-legged Buzzard
• Royal Tern
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Rustic Bunting
• Sabine’s Gull
• Sand Martin
• Sanderling
• Sandwich Tern
• Sardinian Warbler
• Savi’s Warbler
• Sedge Warbler
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Short-eared Owl
• Silver Teal
• Smew
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Owl
• Sociable Lapwing
• Song Sparrow
• Song Thrush
• Sooty Shearwater
• Sooty Tern
• South African Shelduck
• South Polar Skua
• Spanish Sparrow
• Spotted Crake
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Spotted Redshank
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Squacco Heron
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Stock Dove
• Surf Scoter
• Swainson’s Thrush
• Swan Goose
• Taiga Bean Goose
• Tawny Owl
• Tawny Pipit
• Temminck’s Stint
• Tennessee Warbler
• Terek Sandpiper
• Thrush Nightingale
• Tree Pipit
• Tufted Duck
• Tundra Bean Goose
• Tundra Swan
• Twite
• Two-barred Crossbill
• Upland Sandpiper
• Velvet Scoter
• Village Weaver
• Wandering Whistling Duck
• Water Pipit
• Water Rail
• Western Bonelli’s Warbler
• Western Cattle Egret
• Western House Martin
• Western Jackdaw
• Western Marsh Harrier
• Western Orphean Warbler
• Western Reef Heron
• Western Subalpine Warbler
• Western Yellow Wagtail
• Whinchat
• Whiskered Tern
• White Stork
• White Wagtail
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-throated Dipper
• White-throated Robin
• 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 Loon
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Yellow-legged Gull
• Yellowhammer

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Birds of Wales by bird group

• Ducks, Geese & Swans of Wales (62 species)
• Sandpipers & Allies of Wales (43 species)
• Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Wales (35 species)
• Old World Flycatchers & Chats of Wales (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.