🐦 Bird Migration Map

When do fieldfares arrive in and leave the UK?

A winter visitor in the records: numbers build from mid October and stay high until about late March.

When do fieldfares arrive in the UK?
In the GBIF records, UK numbers build from mid October.
When do fieldfares leave the UK?
They stay common in the records until about late March.
Where do fieldfares go in summer?
In June and July the strongest signal in the effort-adjusted GBIF records is around Finland. The globe shows the breeding range month by month.

Fieldfare in the UK, month by month

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Bars: this species’ share of all UK bird records in GBIF (CC0/CC BY 4.0 only), by month, scaled to the peak month. Based on 137,299 UK records (occurrence search API, country=GB, weekly). Dates come from sightings, not a survey, so treat them as a guide.

See the fieldfare migration on the 3D globe →

About the fieldfare

The fieldfare is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. It breeds in woodland and scrub in northern Europe and across the Palearctic. It is strongly migratory, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. …

From the Wikipedia article “Fieldfare” (revision 1371937958), CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened at a sentence end. Winter/summer areas: country containing the monthly hotspot of effort-adjusted GBIF records, using Natural Earth boundaries (public domain).

Other UK winter visitors: see the full list with arrival and departure dates.