The top 10 birds of the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2025
The top 3 according to 298 votes from people: House sparrow · Blue tit · Starling. (Updated Oct 6, 2025.)
More than half a million people across the UK spent an hour counting the birds in their gardens in January 2025, recording 9.1 million birds. The house sparrow came top again, ahead of the blue tit and the woodpigeon, while the starling hit its lowest count ever. The UK top 10 by number of birds counted.
Top 10
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1
House sparrow
No. 1: 1,211,260 birds counted, an average of 3.55 per garden. Top of the table again.
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2
Blue tit
No. 2: 946,698 birds counted, an average of 2.77 per garden.
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3
Starling
No. 4: 784,741 birds counted, an average of 2.30 per garden. Down one place, with its lowest count ever.
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4
Woodpigeon
No. 3: 859,780 birds counted, an average of 2.52 per garden. Up one place.
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5
Magpie
No. 9: 449,674 birds counted, an average of 1.32 per garden.
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6
Blackbird
No. 5: 732,472 birds counted, an average of 2.15 per garden.
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7
Goldfinch
No. 8: 465,766 birds counted, an average of 1.37 per garden.
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8
Great tit
No. 7: 484,606 birds counted, an average of 1.42 per garden.
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9
Robin
No. 6: 518,312 birds counted, an average of 1.52 per garden. Seen in more gardens than any other bird (84.1%).
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10
Long-tailed tit
No. 10: 379,285 birds counted, an average of 1.11 per garden. New entry in the top 10.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (1)
Did it with the kids this year, we got 2 robins and about 15 sparrows fighting over the feeder lol