Birds arriving in the UK in April

Which migrating birds arrive in and leave the UK in April, from UK sightings in openly licensed GBIF records (dates are a guide, not a survey).

Arriving in April (20)

• Barn swallow (summer visitor, early April)
• Common redstart (summer visitor, early April)
• Western yellow wagtail (summer visitor, early April)
• Common house martin (summer visitor, mid April)
• Common whitethroat (summer visitor, mid April)
• Sedge warbler (summer visitor, mid April)
• Common reed warbler (summer visitor, mid April)
• Common grasshopper warbler (summer visitor, mid April)
• European pied flycatcher (summer visitor, mid April)
• Tree pipit (summer visitor, mid April)
• Common nightingale (summer visitor, mid April)
• Common cuckoo (summer visitor, mid April)
• Arctic tern (summer visitor, mid April)
• Garden warbler (summer visitor, mid April)
• Lesser whitethroat (summer visitor, mid April)
• Common tern (summer visitor, mid April)
• Little tern (summer visitor, mid April)
• Whinchat (summer visitor, late April)
• European turtle dove (summer visitor, late April)
• Eurasian hobby (summer visitor, late April)

Leaving in April (4)

• Eurasian wigeon (winter visitor, mid April)
• Northern pintail (winter visitor, mid April)
• Brant goose (winter visitor, mid April)
• Purple sandpiper (winter visitor, late April)

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See UK summer visitors and UK winter visitors.