Blue Tit Parus caeruleus Common resident. Summer Distribution Winter Distribution Great Tit Parus major Common resident. Summer Distribution Winter Distribution Coal Tit Parus ater Common resident. Birds not of Irish race are rare vagrants. Summer Distribution Winter Distribution Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus Very Rare. Has bred in the past. There are five county…
White’s Thrush Zoothera dauma Rare vagrant. One county record up to the end of 2014. 1842 Near Bandon, shot, 5th December, now at Trinity College, Dublin. (Thompson I:128) This is the first Irish Record. Distribution: It breeds in wet coniferous taiga, mainly in eastern Asia and Siberia. Northern races are strongly migratory, with most birds moving…
Little Tern Sterna albifrons Very scarce passage migrant. Not known to breed, although it has done so in the past. Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica Rare vagrant. Three county records up to the end of 2014. 2006 Womanagh River, near Ballymacoda, adult, 20th and 21st May. 1998 Courtmacsherry, adult, 26th to 27th July; same, Kilbrittain, 8th August. 1993…
Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica Rare vagrant. 11 county records involving 11 individuals up to the end of 2013. 2005 An unprecedented influx. Between Courtmacsherry and Broadstrand: three, 31st October to 3rd November; four, 1st November. 2005 Clonakilty, 30th October. 2005 Sherkin Island, two, 29th October. 2005 Cape Clear Island, 29th October; presumed same, 30th October, presumed…
Mute Swan Cygnus olor Common throughout the county. Mainly resident, but some grouping of non breeding birds in summer and immature birds wander in the winter. Summer Distribution Winter Distribution Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii Winter visitor, mainly to the east of the county. Scarce since 1998, when the east Cork flocks diminished. Distribution: breeds mainly…
Sand Martin Riperia riperia Common summer visitor. Summer Distribution Swallow/Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica Common summer visitor. Summer Distribution Winter Distribution Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota Awaiting confirmation. House Martin Delichon urbica Common summer visitor. Summer Distribution Red-rumped Swallow Hirundo daurica Rare vagrant. 24 county records up to the end of 2014. 2014 Owenahincha, one on the 10th…
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea Rare vagrant. This species is regularly found in captivity, with many migratory feral populations on the near continent. Records probably do not refer to genuinely wild birds. The species remains on Category D of the Irish list. Eight records involving 17 birds; up to the end of 2014. Only 13 birds to…
Stone Curlew Burhinus oedicnemus Rare passage migrant, mostly in spring. Six records up to the end of 2013 since first recorded in 1913. 2013 Bantry, one on the 3rd June. 2010 Sherkin Island, one on the 20th/21st March. 1999 Dursey Island, one on the 26th April. 1996 Cape Clear Island, one from the 8th to the…
Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus Rare vagrant. 15 county records up to the end of 2014. 2014 White’s Marsh, one on the 30th and 31st May. 2008 Little Island, 27th May. 2005 White’s Marsh, Clonakilty, adult male, 1st May; same individual, Kilkerran Lake, 2nd to 7th May. 1995 Clogheen Marsh, Inchydoney, adult male and a female, 22nd…
Starling Sturnus vulgaris Common resident. Summer Distribution Winter Distribution Rosy/Rose-coloured Starling Sturnus roseus Rare vagrant. 35 county records involving 38 birds up to the end of 2014. First county record was was one on Cape Clear from the 31st August to the 8th September 1961. Birds wre seen at the following locatoins: Allihies, Ballycotton, Barley…