Birds of Austria

Austria is a mountainous nation with a cool climate. This makes it favorable for several species of birds to live in the country, including finches, swallows, and several birds of prey.

The national bird of Austria is the barn swallow. Also, the Austrian flag has a stylized picture of a black imperial eagle, sometimes with two heads instead of one.

Birds of Austria

List of Birds Found in Austria

Native Birds

Accentors

  • Alpine Accentor
  • Dunnock

Barn-owls

Bearded Reedling

  • Bearded Reedling

Bee-eaters

  • European Bee-eater

Bush Warblers and Allies

  • Cetti’s Warbler

Bustards

  • Great Bustard

Cormorants and Shags

  • Great Cormorant
  • Pygmy Cormorant

Cranes

  • Common Crane

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Carrion Crow
  • Common Raven
  • Eurasian Jackdaw
  • Eurasian Jay
  • Eurasian Magpie
  • Eurasian Nutcracker
  • Hooded Crow
  • Rook
  • Yellow-billed Chough

Cuckoos

  • Common Cuckoo

Dippers

  • White-throated Dipper

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Eurasian Hobby
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Red-footed Falcon
  • Saker Falcon

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Brambling
  • Citril Finch
  • Common Chaffinch
  • Common Redpoll
  • Common Rosefinch
  • Eurasian Bullfinch
  • Eurasian Linnet
  • Eurasian Siskin
  • European Goldfinch
  • European Greenfinch
  • European Serin
  • Hawfinch
  • Lesser Redpoll
  • Red Crossbill
  • Twite

Flamingos

Grassbirds and Allies

  • Common Grasshopper-warbler
  • River Warbler
  • Savi’s Warbler

Grebes

  • Eared Grebe
  • Great Crested Grebe
  • Horned Grebe
  • Little Grebe
  • Red-necked Grebe

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Black-headed Gull
  • Black Tern
  • Caspian Gull
  • Common Gull
  • Common Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Little Gull
  • Mediterranean Gull
  • Whiskered Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Yellow-legged Gull

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Bearded Vulture
  • Black Kite
  • Booted Eagle
  • Cinereous Vulture
  • Common Buzzard
  • Eurasian Griffon
  • Eurasian Marsh-harrier
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  • European Honey-buzzard
  • Golden Eagle
  • Hen Harrier
  • Imperial Eagle
  • Montagu’s Harrier
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Red Kite
  • Rough-legged Hawk
  • White-tailed Eagle

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Black-crowned Night-heron
  • Gray Heron
  • Great Bittern
  • Great Egret
  • Little Bittern
  • Little Egret
  • Purple Heron

Hoopoes

  • Eurasian Hoopoe

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Eurasian Spoonbill

Kingfishers

  • Common Kingfisher

Kinglets

  • Common Firecrest
  • Goldcrest

Larks

  • Crested Lark
  • Eurasian Skylark
  • Greater Short-toed Lark
  • Wood Lark

Leaf Warblers

  • Common Chiffchaff
  • Western Bonelli’s Warbler
  • Willow Warbler
  • Wood Warbler

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

  • Snow Bunting

Long-tailed Tits

  • Long-tailed Tit

Loons

  • Arctic Loon
  • Red-throated Loon

Nightjars and Allies

  • Eurasian Nightjar

Nuthatches

  • Eurasian Nuthatch

Old World Buntings

  • Corn Bunting
  • Ortolan Bunting
  • Reed Bunting
  • Rock Bunting
  • Yellowhammer

Old World Flycatchers

  • Black Redstart
  • Bluethroat
  • Collared Flycatcher
  • Common Nightingale
  • Common Redstart
  • European Pied Flycatcher
  • European Robin
  • European Stonechat
  • Northern Wheatear
  • Red-breasted Flycatcher
  • Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • Thrush Nightingale
  • Whinchat

Old World Orioles

Old World Sparrows

  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  • House Sparrow
  • Italian Sparrow
  • White-winged Snowfinch

Osprey

  • Osprey

Owls

Oystercatchers

  • Eurasian Oystercatcher

Penduline-tits

  • Eurasian Penduline-tit

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Black Grouse
  • Common Quail
  • Gray Partridge
  • Hazel Grouse
  • Rock Partridge
  • Rock Ptarmigan
  • Western Capercaillie

Pigeons and Doves

  • Common Wood-pigeon
  • Eurasian Collared-dove
  • European Turtle-dove
  • Stock Dove

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Eurasian Dotterel
  • Kentish Plover
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Northern Lapwing

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Corn Crake
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Little Crake
  • Spotted Crake
  • Water Rail

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Eurasian Reed Warbler
  • Great Reed Warbler
  • Icterine Warbler
  • Marsh Warbler
  • Melodious Warbler
  • Moustached Warbler
  • Sedge Warbler

Rollers

  • European Roller

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Common Redshank
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Common Snipe
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Eurasian Woodcock
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Ruff

Shrikes

  • Great Gray Shrike
  • Red-backed Shrike

Starlings

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Pied Avocet

Storks

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Common House-martin
  • Eurasian Crag-martin

Swifts

  • Alpine Swift
  • Common Swift

Sylviid Warblers, Parrotbills, and Allies

  • Barred Warbler
  • Eurasian Blackcap
  • Garden Warbler
  • Greater Whitethroat
  • Lesser Whitethroat

Thick-knees

  • Eurasian Thick-knee

Thrushes and Allies

  • Eurasian Blackbird
  • Fieldfare
  • Mistle Thrush
  • Redwing
  • Ring Ouzel
  • Song Thrush

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Coal Tit
  • Crested Tit
  • Eurasian Blue Tit
  • Great Tit
  • Marsh Tit
  • Willow Tit

Treecreepers

  • Eurasian Treecreeper
  • Short-toed Treecreeper

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Gray Wagtail
  • Meadow Pipit
  • Tawny Pipit
  • Tree Pipit
  • Water Pipit
  • Western Yellow Wagtail
  • White Wagtail

Wallcreeper

  • Wallcreeper

Waxwings

  • Bohemian Waxwing

Woodpeckers

  • Black Woodpecker
  • Eurasian Green Woodpecker
  • Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker
  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • Gray-headed Woodpecker
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
  • Middle Spotted Woodpecker
  • Syrian Woodpecker
  • White-backed Woodpecker

Wrens

Non-native Birds

Accentors

  • Siberian Accentor

Auks, Murres, and Puffins

Bee-eaters

  • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Boobies and Gannets

  • Northern Gannet

Bustards

  • Macqueen’s Bustard

Cisticolas and Allies

  • Zitting Cisticola

Cormorants and Shags

  • European Shag

Cranes

  • Demoiselle Crane

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Red-billed Chough

Cuckoos

  • Great Spotted Cuckoo

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

Falcons and Caracaras

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Hoary Redpoll
  • Parrot Crossbill
  • Pine Grosbeak
  • Trumpeter Finch
  • White-winged Crossbill

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Arctic Tern
  • Armenian Gull
  • Audouin’s Gull
  • Black-legged Kittiwake
  • Caspian Tern
  • Franklin’s Gull
  • Glaucous Gull
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Iceland Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Lesser Crested Tern
  • Little Tern
  • Pallas’ Gull
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Roseate Tern
  • Sabine’s Gull
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Slender-billed Gull

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Black-winged Kite
  • Bonelli’s Eagle
  • Egyptian Vulture
  • Greater Spotted Eagle
  • Lesser Spotted Eagle
  • Levant Sparrowhawk
  • Long-legged Buzzard
  • Pallid Harrier
  • Short-toed Snake-eagle
  • Steppe Eagle

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Cattle Egret
  • Squacco Heron

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Glossy Ibis
  • Northern Bald Ibis

Larks

  • Bimaculated Lark
  • Black Lark
  • Calandra Lark
  • Horned Lark
  • Mediterranean Short-toed Lark
  • Turkestan Short-toed Lark
  • White-winged Lark

Leaf Warblers

  • Arctic Warbler
  • Dusky Warbler
  • Greenish Warbler
  • Hume’s Warbler
  • Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
  • Yellow-browed Warbler

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

  • Lapland Longspur

Loons

Northern Storm-petrels

  • European Storm-petrel
  • Leach’s Storm-petrel

Old World Buntings

  • Black-headed Bunting
  • Cirl Bunting
  • Cretzschmar’s Bunting
  • Little Bunting
  • Pallas’s Bunting
  • Pine Bunting
  • Rustic Bunting

Old World Flycatchers

  • Blue Rock-thrush
  • Desert Wheatear
  • Isabelline Wheatear
  • Pied Wheatear
  • Semicollared Flycatcher
  • Siberian Rubythroat
  • Siberian Stonechat
  • Western Black-eared Wheatear

Old World Sparrows

  • Rock Sparrow

Owls

Pelicans

  • Dalmatian Pelican
  • Great White Pelican

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Ring-necked Pheasant

Pigeons and Doves

  • Oriental Turtle-dove
  • Rock Pigeon

Plovers and Lapwings

  • American Golden-plover
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • European Golden-plover
  • Greater Sand-plover
  • Pacific Golden-plover
  • Sociable Lapwing
  • White-tailed Lapwing

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Cream-colored Courser
  • Collared Pratincole
  • Black-winged Pratincole

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Baillon’s Crake
  • Western Swamphen

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Aquatic Warbler
  • Blyth’s Reed Warbler
  • Booted Warbler
  • Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
  • Paddyfield Warbler

Sandgrouse

  • Pallas’ Sandgrouse

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Baird’s Sandpiper
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Broad-billed Sandpiper
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Common Greenshank
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Dunlin
  • Great Snipe
  • Jack Snipe
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Little Stint
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Purple Sandpiper
  • Red Knot
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Red Phalarope
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Sanderling
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper
  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
  • Slender-billed Curlew
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Temminck’s Stint
  • Terek Sandpiper
  • Whimbrel
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper

Shearwaters and Petrels

Shrikes

  • Isabelline Shrike
  • Lesser Gray Shrike
  • Woodchat Shrike

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Great Skua
  • Long-tailed Jaeger
  • Parasitic Jaeger
  • Pomarine Jaeger

Starlings

  • Rosy Starling

Swallows

  • Red-rumped Swallow

Swifts

  • Pallid Swift

Sylviid Warblers, Parrotbills, and Allies

  • Asian Desert Warbler
  • Eastern Subalpine Warbler
  • Sardinian Warbler
  • Western Orphean Warbler

Thrushes and Allies

  • American Robin
  • Black-throated Thrush
  • Dusky Thrush
  • Naumann’s Thrush
  • Scaly Thrush
  • White’s Thrush

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Azure Tit

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Citrine Wagtail
  • Olive-backed Pipit
  • Red-throated Pipit
  • Richard’s Pipit
  • Rock Pipit

The best places to see birds in Austria include Ferto-Hansag National Park, Marchegg Reserve, and Seefeld Area.

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