Birds of Lebanon

List of Common Birds Found in Lebanon

Native Birds

• Alpine Accentor
• Asian Crimson-winged Finch
• Barn Owl
• Barn Swallow
• Barred Warbler
• Black-bellied Sandgrouse
• Black-eared Wheatear
• Black-headed Gull
• Black Kite
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black Tern
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue Rock Thrush
• Blue Tit
• Bonelli’s Warbler
• Calandra Lark
• Cirl Bunting
• Collared Dove
• Collared Flycatcher
• Collared Pratincole
• Common Blackbird
• Common Bulbul
• Common Buzzard
• Common Chaffinch 
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Greenshank
• Common Hoopoe 
• Common Kestrel
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Linnet
• Common Moorhen
• Common Myna
• Common Pochard
• Common Quail
• Common Redshank
• Common Redstart
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Snipe
• Common Starling
• Common Tern
• Common Whitethroat
• Common Wood Pigeon
• Corn Bunting
• Crested Lark
• Dartford Warbler
• Desert Wheatear
• Dunlin
• Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler
• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
• Egyptian Vulture
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Coot
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• Eurasian Golden Plover
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
• Eurasian Siskin
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Teal
• Eurasian Thick-knee
• Eurasian Wigeon
• European Bee-eater
• European Goldfinch
• European Greenfinch
• European Honey Buzzard
• European Pied Flycatcher
• European Robin
• European Turtle Dove
• Ferruginous Duck
• Fire-fronted Serin
• Gadwall
• Garden Warbler
• Great Cormorant
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Short-toed Lark
• Great Gray Shrike
• Great Snipe
• Great Tit
• Green Sandpiper
• Gray Heron
• Gray Plover
• Griffon Vulture
• Hawfinch
• Hooded Crow
• House Bunting
• House Sparrow
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Levant Sparrowhawk
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Gull
• Little Owl
• Little Stint
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Mallard
• Marsh Harrier
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Masked Shrike
• Mediterranean Gull
• Mistle Thrush
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Raven
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Wheatear
• Ortolan Bunting
• Palestine Sunbird
• Pied Avocet
• Red-backed Shrike
• Red-breasted Flycatcher
• Red-crested Pochard
• Redwing
• Rock Bunting
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Rüppell’s Warbler
• Sandwich Tern
• Sardinian Warbler
• Scops Owl
• Serin
• Short-toed Snake Eagle
• Slender-billed Gull
• Spectacled Warbler
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Spotted Redshank
• Subalpine Warbler
• Tawny Owl
• Tufted Duck
• Western Orphean Warbler
• Whiskered Tern
• White-eared Bulbul
• White Spectacled Bulbul
• White Stork
• White-throated Kingfisher
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Tern
• Willow Warbler
• Woodchat Shrike
• Woodlark
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Yellowhammer
• Yellow-legged Gull

Non-native Birds

• Alpine Accentor
• Common Myna
• Dead Sea Sparrow
• Eurasian Blackbird
• Hooded Wheatear
• Pine Bunting
• Richard’s Pipit
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Rock Partridge
• Ruddy Duck

Some of Lebanon’s best places to see birds include Horsh Ehden Nature Reserve, Al-Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve, and Hima Anjar and Kfar Zabad Wetlands. The peak season for birdwatching in Lebanon typically falls during the spring and autumn when bird migration is at its height.