Birds of Palestine

List of Common Birds Found in Palestine

Native Birds

• Alpine Swift
• Arabian Babbler
• Barn Swallow
• Black-bellied Sandgrouse
• Black-crowned Sparrow-lark
• Black-headed Bunting
• Black Redstart
• Black-winged Kite
• Blue Rock Thrush
• Calandra Lark
• Cattle Egret
• Citrine Wagtail
• Collared Pratincole
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Moorhen
• Common Nightingale
• Common Quail
• Common Reed Bunting
• Common Rock Thrush
• Common Starling
• Common Stonechat
• Common Swift
• Common Tern
• Common Whitethroat
• Crested Lark
• Cyprus Warbler
• Dead Sea Sparrow
• Desert Finch
• Desert Lark
• Dunn’s Lark
• Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler
• Eastern Orphean Warbler
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Collared-dove
• Eurasian Coot
• Eurasian Crag Martin
• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• Eurasian Griffon
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Reed Warbler
• Eurasian Roller
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• European Bee-eater
• European Nightjar
• European Pied Flycatcher
• European Robin
• European Roller
• European Turtle-dove
• Fan-tailed Raven
• Graceful Prinia
• Great Cormorant
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Short-toed Lark
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
• Griffon Vulture
• Gull-billed Tern
• Hooded Crow
• Hoopoe
• House Crow
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Lanner Falcon
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Kestrel
• Lesser Short-toed Lark
• Levant Sparrowhawk
• Little Grebe
• Little Owl
• Little Tern
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Marsh Harrier
• Masked Shrike
• Meadow Pipit
• Menetries’s Warbler
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Namaqua Dove
• Northern Wheatear
• Olivaceous Warbler
• Palestine Sunbird
• Pallid Swift
• Peregrine Falcon
• Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
• Purple Heron
• Red-breasted Flycatcher
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Red-throated Pipit
• Rufous Bush Robin
• Rüppell’s Raven
• Rüppell’s Warbler
• Saker Falcon
• Sand Martin
• Sardinian Warbler
• Sedge Warbler
• Slender-billed Gull
• Sooty Falcon
• Spotted Crake
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Stone Curlew
• Subalpine Warbler
• Syrian Serin
• Syrian Woodpecker
• Tawny Pipit
• Thrush Nightingale
• Tree Pipit
• Tristram’s Grackle
• Water Pipit
• Water Rail
• Western Reef Heron
• Whinchat
• White-eyed Gull
• White Stork
• White-throated Kingfisher
• White-throated Swift
• Wood Lark
• Yellow Wagtail

Non-native Birds

• Alexandrine Parakeet
• Common Myna
• Common Pheasant
• Eurasian Collared-dove
• European Goldfinch
• House Sparrow
• Indian Peafowl
• Indian Silverbill
• Rock Pigeon
• Rose-ringed Parakeet

Some of the best birding places in Palestine include Hula Valley Nature Reserve, Jerusalem Bird Observatory, and Ein Gedi Nature Reserve. The peak birding season in Palestine typically falls during the spring and autumn migrations when many migratory birds pass through the region.