Birds of Qatar

List of Common Birds Found in Qatar

Native Birds

• Arabian Babbler
• Arabian Partridge
• Arabian Warbler
• Barn Owl
• Barn Swallow
• Black-crowned Sparrow Lark
• Black Kite
• Black Redstart
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
• Bonelli’s Eagle
• Booted Eagle
• Bridled Tern
• Brown Dipper
• Brown-necked Raven
• Caspian Tern
• Clamorous Reed Warbler
• Collared Flycatcher
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Hoopoe 
• Common House Martin
• Common Kestrel
• Common Nightingale
• Common Redstart
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Stonechat
• Crag Martin
• Cream-colored Courser
• Crested Lark
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Desert Finch
• Desert Lark
• Desert Sparrow
• Desert Warbler
• Desert Wheatear
• Desert Whitethroat
• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
• Egyptian Nightjar
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Scops Owl
• Eurasian Wren
• European Bee-eater
• European Roller
• Graceful Prinia
• Graceful Warbler
• Greater Sand Plover
• Greater Spotted Eagle
• Greater Whitethroat
• Great Snipe
• Green Sandpiper
• Grey Heron
• Gull-billed Tern
• Houbara Bustard
• House Sparrow
• Hume’s Whitethroat
• Imperial Eagle
• Indian Nightjar
• Indian Roller
• Indian Silverbill
• Isabelline Shrike
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Kentish Plover
• Lanner Falcon
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Sand Plover
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Little Egret
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Tern
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Masked Shrike
• Menetries’s Warbler
• Merlin
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Oriental Skylark
• Osprey
• Pallid Harrier
• Pallid Swift
• Pied Kingfisher
• Purple Heron
• Purple Sunbird
• Red-breasted Flycatcher
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Red-tailed Wheatear
• Red-throated Pipit
• Red-wattled Lapwing
• Rock Martin
• Rosy Starling
• Ruff
• Rufous Bush Chat
• Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
• Saker Falcon
• Sand Martin
• Sandwich Tern
• Saunders’s Tern
• Sedge Warbler
• Semi-collared Flycatcher
• Short-toed Snake Eagle
• Slender-billed Gull
• Spur-winged Plover
• Squacco Heron
• Steppe Eagle
• Steppe Grey Shrike
• Tawny Pipit
• Tristram’s Starling
• Upcher’s Warbler
• Western Orphean Warbler
• Western Reef Heron
• Whiskered Tern
• White-cheeked Tern
• White-eared Night Heron
• White-throated Kingfisher
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Tern
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellow-legged Gull
• Yellow-vented Bulbul
• Yellow Wagtail

Non-native Birds

• African Swamphen
• Alexandrine Parakeet
• Black-breasted Weaver
• Common Myna
• Egyptian Goose
• Gray Francolin
• House Crow
• Indian Silverbill
• Namaqua Dove
• Red-necked Ostrich
• Red-vented Bulbul
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Streaked Weaver
• White-eared Bulbul
• Zebra Dove

Some of the best places to go birding in Qatar include Al Thakira Mangroves, Dukhan Beach, and the tidal flats of Al Khor. The peak season for birding in Qatar typically occurs during the migratory periods when many birds pass through the country. Qatar is a crucial stopover and wintering ground for many migratory bird species traveling along the East Atlantic and West Asian flyways.

Some of the best places to go birding in Qatar include Al Thakira Mangroves, Dukhan Beach, and the tidal flats of Al Khor. The peak season for birding in Qatar typically occurs during the migratory periods when many birds pass through the country. Qatar is a crucial stopover and wintering ground for many migratory bird species traveling along the East Atlantic and West Asian flyways.