Birds of North Korea

List of Common Birds Found in North Korea

Native Birds

• Azure-winged Magpie
• Baer’s Pochard
• Baikal Teal
• Barn Swallow
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Black-billed Capercaillie
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black Drongo
• Black-faced Bunting
• Black-headed Gull
• Black Kite
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-tailed Gull
• Black Woodpecker
• Blue-and-white Flycatcher
• Blue Whistling Thrush
• Brambling
• Brown Dipper
• Brown-eared Bulbul
• Brown Hawk-owl
• Buff-bellied Pipit
• Carrion Crow
• Caspian Tern
• Chestnut-eared Bunting
• Chinese Blackbird
• Chinese Penduline Tit
• Chinese Sparrowhawk
• Coal Tit
• Common Greenshank
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Merganser
• Common Myna
• Common Pheasant
• Common Pochard
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Snipe
• Common Tern
• Daurian Redstart
• Dusky Thrush
• Eastern Buzzard
• Eastern Great Tit
• Eastern Marsh Harrier
• Eastern Spot-billed Duck
• Eurasian Bullfinch
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Jackdaw
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Nutcracker
• Eurasian Nuthatch
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Treecreeper
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eurasian Wren
• Eurasian Wryneck
• Far Eastern Curlew
• Gadwall
• Gray-backed Thrush
• Gray-faced Buzzard
• Gray-headed Woodpecker
• Gray Heron
• Gray Wagtail
• Greater Scaup
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Great Tit
• Hawfinch
• Indian Peafowl
• Japanese Grosbeak
• Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
• Japanese Quail
• Japanese Sparrowhawk
• Japanese Tit
• Japanese White-eye
• Korean Magpie
• Light-vented Bulbul
• Little Bunting
• Little Egret
• Long-tailed Tit
• Mandarin Duck
• Marsh Tit
• Meadow Bunting
• Meadow Pipit
• Mongolian Gull
• Mugimaki Flycatcher
• Narcissus Flycatcher
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Shoveler
• Olive-backed Pipit
• Oriental Cuckoo
• Oriental Greenfinch
• Oriental Magpie
• Oriental Reed Warbler
• Oriental Stork
• Oriental Turtle Dove
• Osprey
• Pale Thrush
• Pallas’s Bunting
• Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
• Pallas’s Reed Bunting
• Red-billed Starling
• Red Crossbill
• Red-crowned Crane
• Red-flanked Bluetail
• Red-throated Thrush
• Reed Bunting
• Rock Bunting
• Rook
• Rufous-tailed Robin
• Rustic Bunting
• Siberian Accentor
• Siberian Rubythroat
• Smew
• Spot-billed Duck
• Taiga Bean Goose
• Terek Sandpiper
• Tristram’s Bunting
• Varied Tit
• Whiskered Tern
• White’s Thrush
• White-naped Crane
• White Wagtail
• Willow Tit
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellow-breasted Bunting
• Yellow-throated Bunting
• Yellow Wagtail

Non-native Birds

• Baillon’s Crake
• Common Ringed Plover
• Greater Sand Plover
• Little Curlew
• Pallas’s Sandgrouse
• Pied Avocet
• Rock Pigeon
• Western Sandpiper

Potential birding sites in North Korea include Mount Myohyang, Mount Kumgang, and Mount Chilbo. The peak season for birdwatching in North Korea typically falls during the spring and autumn when migratory birds pass through or reside in the country. However, North Korea is a totalitarian dictatorship, so it may not be ideal for visitors.