Birds of Cambodia

List of Common Birds Found in Cambodia

Native Birds

• Asian Green Bee-eater
• Asian Fairy-bluebird
• Asian Openbill
• Asian Paradise-flycatcher
• Barn Swallow
• Baya Weaver
• Black Baza
• Black-capped Kingfisher
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black Drongo
• Black-headed Bulbul
• Black-headed Woodpecker
• Black Kite
• Blue-eared Kingfisher
• Blue-tailed Bee-eater
• Blue-throated Bee-eater
• Blue-winged Pitta
• Blyth’s Paradise-flycatcher
• Brahminy Kite
• Brown-backed Needletail
• Brown Shrike
• Brown-throated Sunbird
• Burmese Shrike
• Cambodian Tailorbird
• Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
• Chestnut-headed Partridge
• Cinereous Vulture
• Collared Falconet
• Common Flameback
• Common Iora
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Moorhen
• Common Myna
• Crested Serpent Eagle
• Crested Treeswift
• Dusky Warbler
• Eastern Cattle Egret
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Giant Ibis
• Gray-headed Fish Eagle
• Gray-headed Lapwing
• Gray Heron
• Greater Coucal
• Great Myna
• Green-eared Barbet
• Green Imperial Pigeon
• Hainan Blue Flycatcher
• Indian Peafowl
• Indian Roller
• Indochinese Bushlark
• Indochinese Green Magpie
• Indochinese Yuhina
• Intermediate Egret
• Japanese Sparrowhawk
• Large-tailed Nightjar
• Lesser Adjutant
• Lesser Coucal
• Lesser Whistling Duck
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Heron
• Little Ringed Plover
• Long-tailed Shrike
• Malaysian Pied Fantail
• Olive-backed Sunbird
• Oriental Darter
• Oriental Hobby
• Oriental Magpie-robin
• Oriental Pied Hornbill
• Oriental Pratincole
• Oriental Reed Warbler
• Paddyfield Pipit
• Painted Stork
• Pale-headed Woodpecker
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Bushchat
• Pied Fantail
• Plumbeous Water Redstart
• Purple Heron
• Racket-tailed Treepie
• Red Avadavat
• Red-breasted Parakeet
• Red-collared Dove
• Red-headed Trogon
• Red-throated Flycatcher
• Red-wattled Lapwing
• River Lapwing
• Rock Pigeon
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Rufous-bellied Eagle
• Rufous-winged Buzzard
• Sand Martin
• Sarus Crane
• Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
• Slaty-legged Crake
• Slender-billed Oriole
• Small Minivet
• Spot-billed Duck
• Spotted Dove
• Spotted Owlet
• Stork-billed Kingfisher
• Striated Grassbird
• Striated Heron
• Striated Swallow
• Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch
• Thick-billed Green Pigeon
• Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher
• Verditer Flycatcher
• Violet Cuckoo
• White-breasted Waterhen
• White-browed Crake
• White-browed Fantail
• White-browed Piculet
• White-crowned Forktail
• White-rumped Falconet
• White-rumped Shama
• White-throated Kingfisher
• White Wagtail
• Yellow-bellied Prinia
• Yellow-bellied Warbler
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Yellow-vented Bulbul
• Zebra Dove
• Alexandrine Parakeet
• Amur Stonechat
• Annam Prinia
• Ashy Drongo
• Ashy Minivet
• Ashy Woodswallow
• Asian Barred Owlet
• Asian Emerald Dove
• Asian Palm-swift
• Banded Bay Cuckoo
• Banded Kingfisher
• Bar-backed Partridge
• Barred Cuckoo-dove
• Bengal Florican
• Besra
• Black-backed Dwarf-kingfisher
• Black-browed Fulvetta
• Black Eagle
• Black-hooded Laughingthrush
• Black-naped Tern
• Black-necked Stork
• Black-throated Laughingthrush
• Black-throated Tit
• Black-winged Cuckooshrike
• Black-winged Kite
• Blossom-headed Parakeet
• Blue-and-white Flycatcher
• Blue-breasted Quail
• Blue Rock-thrush
• Blue-winged Minla
• Blyth’s Frogmouth
• Bronzed Drongo
• Brown Boobook
• Brown Fish-owl
• Brown Hornbill
• Brown Prinia
• Brown-rumped Minivet
• Brown-streaked Flycatcher
• Brown Wood-owl
• Buffy Fish-owl
• Cambodian Laughingthrush
• Caspian Tern
• Changeable Hawk-eagle
• Chinese Blue Flycatcher
• Chinese Francolin
• Chinese Sparrowhawk
• Collared Kingfisher
• Collared Owlet
• Collared Scops-owl
• Common Green-magpie
• Common Hill Myna
• Common Quail
• Common Tailorbird
• Common Tern
• Cook’s Swift
• Crested Goshawk
• Crested Kingfisher
• Crow-billed Drongo
• Dark-necked Tailorbird
• Eurasian Jay
• Fujian Niltava
• Germain’s Peacock-pheasant
• Germain’s Swiftlet
• Golden-bellied Gerygone
• Golden-crested Myna
• Golden-headed Cisticola
• Gray-breasted Prinia
• Gray Bushchat
• Gray-chinned Minivet
• Gray-headed Parakeet
• Gray-headed Woodpecker
• Gray Nightjar
• Gray Peacock-pheasant
• Great Eared-nightjar
• Greater Adjutant
• Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
• Greater Yellownape
• Great Hornbill
• Great Slaty Woodpecker
• Green Peafowl
• Green-winged Teal
• Gull-billed Tern
• Hair-crested Drongo
• Hill Blue Flycatcher
• Hill Prinia
• Himalayan Swiftlet
• House Swift
• Indian Nightjar
• Indian Spot-billed Duck
• Indochinese Blue Flycatcher
• Indochinese Cuckooshrike
• Jerdon’s Baza
• Laced Woodpecker
• Large-billed Crow
• Large Blue Flycatcher
• Large Cuckooshrike
• Large Hawk-cuckoo
• Large Niltava
• Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush
• Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo
• Lesser Yellownape
• Little Pied Flycatcher
• Little Tern
• Milky Stork
• Mountain Fulvetta
• Mountain Hawk-eagle
• Mountain Imperial-pigeon
• Mountain Scops-owl
• Mugimaki Flycatcher
• Narcissus Flycatcher
• Northern Pintail
• Orange-necked Partridge
• Oriental Honey-buzzard
• Oriental Scops-owl
• Oriental Turtle-dove
• Pacific Swift
• Pale Blue Flycatcher
• Pale-capped Pigeon
• Pied Harrier
• Pied Imperial-pigeon
• Pied Kingfisher
• Plain Prinia
• Plaintive Cuckoo
• Rain Quail
• Ratchet-tailed Treepie
• Red-billed Blue-magpie
• Red-collared Woodpecker
• Red-headed Vulture
• Red Junglefowl
• Rosy Minivet
• Ruddy Kingfisher
• Rufescent Prinia
• Rufous-browed Flycatcher
• Rufous Treepie
• Savanna Nightjar
• Scaly-breasted Partridge
• Scarlet Minivet
• Shikra
• Short-eared Owl
• Short-toed Snake-eagle
• Siamese Fireback
• Siamese Pied Starling
• Silver-backed Needletail
• Silver-eared Mesia
• Silver Pheasant
• Slaty-backed Flycatcher
• Snowy-browed Flycatcher
• Spot-bellied Eagle-owl
• Spotted Wood-owl
• Square-tailed Drongo-cuckoo
• Streak-throated Woodpecker
• Taiga Flycatcher
• Vernal Hanging-parrot
• Vinous-breasted Myna
• Vivid Niltava
• Whiskered Tern
• White-bellied Woodpecker
• White-cheeked Laughingthrush
• White-crested Laughingthrush
• White-nest Swiftlet
• White-shouldered Starling
• White-throated Needletail
• White-throated Rock-thrush
• White-winged Duck
• White-winged Tern
• Wreathed Hornbill
• Zitting Cisticola

Non-native Birds

• Annam Prinia
• Ashy tailorbird
• Common Rosefinch
• Fairy Pitta
• Japanese Paradise-flycatcher
• Little Bunting
• Siberian Stonechat
• Slender-billed Oriole

There are several places where enthusiasts like birdwatchers and wildlife photographers can visit to experience the avifauna of Cambodia. Some common ones include Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary, Boeng Pearaing, and Ang Trapeang Thma. The last one is notable as it was created to protect the endangered Eastern Sarus Crane.