Birds of Oman

List of Common Birds Found in Oman

Native Birds

• African Sacred Ibis
• Arabian Babbler
• Arabian Bustard
• Arabian Partridge
• Arabian Warbler
• Arabian Wheatear
• Arabian Woodpecker
• Asian Desert Warbler
• Asian Paradise Flycatcher
• Barbary Falcon
• Barn Swallow
• Bar-tailed Lark
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-crowned Sparrow-lark
• Black Heron
• Black Kite
• Blackstart
• Black-winged Kite
• Black-winged Plover
• Black-winged Stilt
• Booted Eagle
• Bridled Tern
• Brown-necked Raven
• Caspian Plover
• Cattle Egret
• Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
• Clamorous Reed Warbler
• Collared Pratincole
• Common Bulbul
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Greenshank
• Common Hoopoe 
• Common Kestrel
• Common Myna
• Common Quail
• Common Redstart
• Common Ringed Plover
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Sandpiper
• Crab Plover
• Crested Lark
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Desert Lark
• Desert Sparrow
• Dunlin
• Egyptian Nightjar
• Egyptian Vulture
• Eleonora’s Falcon
• Eurasian Bittern
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Stone-curlew
• Glossy Ibis
• Graceful Prinia
• Gray Francolin
• Great Cormorant
• Great Crested Tern
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Sand Plover
• Greater Short-toed Lark
• Great Tit
• Green Bee-eater
• Green Sandpiper
• Hooded Crow
• House Crow
• House Sparrow
• Hume’s Wheatear
• Indian Roller
• Indian Silverbill
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Lanner Falcon
• Lappet-faced Vulture
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Crested Tern
• Lesser Sand Plover
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse
• Little Egret
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Stint
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Mallard
• Menetries’s Warbler
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mourning Wheatear
• Northern Wheatear
• Pale Crag Martin
• Palestine Sunbird
• Pallas’s Gull
• Persian Shearwater
• Pied Avocet
• Purple Heron
• Purple Swamphen
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Red-wattled Lapwing
• Rock Martin
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
• Sanderling
• Slender-billed Gull
• Socotra Cormorant
• Sooty Falcon
• Spotted Sandgrouse
• Spur-winged Lapwing
• Squacco Heron
• Steppe Buzzard
• Steppe Eagle
• Striolated Bunting
• Terek Sandpiper
• Tristram’s Starling
• Variable Wheatear
• Western Cattle Egret
• Western Marsh Harrier
• Western Osprey
• Western Reef Egret
• Western Reef Heron
• White-eared Bulbul
• White-eyed Gull
• White Spectacled Bulbul
• White Stork
• White-throated Kingfisher
• White-throated Robin
• White Wagtail
• Yellow-vented Bulbul

Non-native Birds

• Alexandrine Parakeet
• Bank Myna
• Common Myna
• Red-vented Bulbul
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Scaly-breasted Munia
• White-eared Bulbul

Some of the best birding sites in Oman include Masirah Island, Al Ansab Lagoon, and the wetlands of Barr Al Hikman. The peak birding season in Oman generally falls within the winter months, specifically from late November to early April.