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Spurn Bird Observatory Recording Area
331 species and 236,150 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September–October, with up to 231 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Common BlackbirdTurdus merula
Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
European RobinErithacus rubecula
Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus
European Herring GullLarus argentatus
Eurasian MagpiePica pica
Carrion CrowCorvus corone
DunnockPrunella modularis
Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata
Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
Common GullLarus canus
RedwingTurdus iliacus
Brant GooseBranta berniclaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- North Cave Wetlands YWT NR57 km186 species
- Gibraltar Point NNR57 km269 species
- Blacktoft Sands RSPB Reserve59 km205 species
- Flamborough Head59 km278 species
- Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve64 km237 species
- Trent Port67 km152 species
All 331 species recorded here
- Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus
- Eurasian Magpie Pica pica
- European Herring Gull Larus argentatus
- Carrion Crow Corvus corone
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Dunnock Prunella modularis
- Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Common Blackbird Turdus merula
- Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
- European Robin Erithacus rubecula
- Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
- Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Common Linnet Linaria cannabina
- Great Tit Parus major
- Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Common Gull Larus canus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- European Greenfinch Chloris chloris
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Greylag Goose Anser anser
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Eurasian Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Stock Dove Columba oenas
- Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Song Thrush Turdus philomelos
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Common Scoter Melanitta nigra
- Redwing Turdus iliacus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Mediterranean Gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Lesser Whitethroat Curruca curruca
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola
- Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
- Western Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
- Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
- Common Murre Uria aalge
- Fieldfare Turdus pilaris
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- European Rock Pipit Anthus petrosus
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Rook Corvus frugilegus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Water Rail Rallus aquaticus
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
- Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti
- Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Razorbill Alca torda
- Great Skua Stercorarius skua
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Common Eider Somateria mollissima
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
- Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Little Owl Athene noctua
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
- Barred Warbler Curruca nisoria
- Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea
- Common Firecrest Regulus ignicapilla
- Grey Partridge Perdix perdix
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Common Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia
- Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra
- Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa
- Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
- Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- European Shag Gulosus aristotelis
- Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
- Red Kite Milvus milvus
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Twite Linaria flavirostris
- Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
- Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
- Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
- Little Auk Alle alle
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Bearded Reedling Panurus biarmicus
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
- Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
- Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla
- Rosy Starling Pastor roseus
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
- Hooded Crow Corvus cornix
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Woodlark Lullula arborea
- Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Black-throated Loon Gavia arctica
- Richard's Pipit Anthus richardi
- Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Two-barred Warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Tawny Owl Strix aluco
- Eurasian Dotterel Eudromias morinellus
- Booted Warbler Iduna caligata
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Radde's Warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiaca
- European Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis rufula
- Great Snipe Gallinago media
- Blyth's Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Hume's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus humei
- Eastern Subalpine Warbler Curruca cantillans
- European Storm Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus
- Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
- Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris
- Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus
- Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- European Serin Serinus serinus
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Siberian Accentor Prunella montanella
- Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus
- Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
- Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis
- Common Crane Grus grus
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
- Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- European Green Woodpecker Picus viridis
- Willow Tit Poecile montanus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli
- European Roller Coracias garrulus
- Marmora's Warbler Curruca sarda
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Cory's Shearwater Calonectris borealis
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Taiga Bean Goose Anser fabalis
- Smew Mergellus albellus
- Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Asian Desert Warbler Curruca nana
- Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola
- Iberian Chiffchaff Phylloscopus ibericus
- Western Subalpine Warbler Curruca iberiae
- Sardinian Warbler Curruca melanocephala
- Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla
- Pallid Swift Apus pallidus
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Corn Crake Crex crex
- Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides
- White's Thrush Zoothera aurea
- Chiloe Wigeon Mareca sibilatrix
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
- Demoiselle Crane Grus virgo
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Marsh Tit Poecile palustris
- Rock Bunting Emberiza cia
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Red-headed Bunting Emberiza bruniceps
- Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa
- Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis
- Parrot Crossbill Loxia pytyopsittacus
- Spotted Crake Porzana porzana
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae
- Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata
- Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Helopsaltes certhiola
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Spurn Bird Observatory Recording Area?
September–October. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 231 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Spurn Bird Observatory Recording Area?
331 species, from 236,150 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Spurn Bird Observatory Recording Area in November?
The most recorded in November: Common Blackbird, Common Starling, European Robin, Common Wood Pigeon and European Herring Gull.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.