Birds of the Czech Republic

List of Common Birds Found in the Czech Republic

Native Birds

• Barn Owl
• Barn Swallow
• Bearded Reedling
• Bearded Tit
• Bee-eater
• Black-headed Bunting
• Black-headed Gull
• Black Tern
• Black Woodpecker
• Blue Tit
• Booted Warbler
• Brambling
• Carrion Crow
• Cetti’s Warbler
• Chiffchaff
• Coal Tit
• Common Blackbird
• Common Buzzard
• Common Chaffinch 
• Common Crossbill
• Common Cuckoo
• Common House Martin
• Common Kestrel
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Moorhen
• Common Raven
• Common Redpoll
• Common Redstart
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Swift
• Common Tern
• Common Treecreeper
• Common Whitethroat
• Common Wood Pigeon 
• Corn Bunting
• Cream-colored Courser
• Crested Tit
• Dunnock
• Eurasian Bittern
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Blue Tit
• Eurasian Bullfinch
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Coot
• Eurasian Jackdaw
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Linnet
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Nuthatch
• Eurasian Penduline-tit
• Eurasian Reed Warbler
• Eurasian Scops Owl
• Eurasian Siskin
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Treecreeper
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eurasian Wren
• European Chaffinch
• European Goldfinch
• European Greenfinch
• European Green Woodpecker
• European Honey Buzzard
• European Robin
• European Serin
• European Starling
• European Turtle Dove
• Fieldfare
• Firecrest
• Garden Warbler
• Goldcrest
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Great Tit
• Green Sandpiper
• Gray Heron
• Gray Wagtail
• Hawfinch
• Herring Gull
• House Sparrow
• Lesser Gray Shrike
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Little Grebe
• Little Owl
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-tailed Tit
• Mallard
• Marsh Tit
• Mistle Thrush
• Pallas’s Sandgrouse
• Penduline Tit
• Pied Flycatcher
• Red-backed Shrike
• Red Kite
• Red-throated Loon
• Redwing
• Reed Bunting
• River Warbler
• Rock Dove
• Rook
• Sedge Warbler
• Short-toed Treecreeper
• Song Thrush
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Stock Dove
• Tawny Owl
• Tree Pipit
• Water Rail
• White Stork
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-throated Dipper
• White Wagtail
• Willow Tit
• Willow Warbler
• Wood Pigeon
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellowhammer 
• American Wigeon
• Arctic Tern
• Audouin’s Gull
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Barnacle Goose
• Barrow’s Goldeneye
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Black Kite
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-winged Kite
• Blue-winged Teal
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Bonelli’s Eagle
• Booted Eagle
• Brant
• Broad-billed Sandpiper
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Cackling Goose
• Canvasback
• Caspian Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Cinereous Vulture
• Common Eider
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Greenshank
• Common Gull
• Common Merganser
• Common Pochard
• Common Redshank
• Common Scoter
• Common Snipe
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Dunlin
• Egyptian Vulture
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Griffon
• Eurasian Marsh-harrier
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Eurasian Woodcock
• Ferruginous Duck
• Gadwall
• Garganey
• Glaucous Gull
• Golden Eagle
• Graylag Goose
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Scaup
• Greater Spotted Eagle
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Great Snipe
• Green-winged Teal
• Gull-billed Tern
• Hen Harrier
• Iceland Gull
• Imperial Eagle
• Jack Snipe
• King Eider
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Spotted Eagle
• Lesser White-fronted Goose
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Levant Sparrowhawk
• Little Gull
• Little Stint
• Little Tern
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Long-tailed Duck
• Marbled Teal
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Mediterranean Gull
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mute Swan
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Shoveler
• Pallas’s Gull
• Pallid Harrier
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Pink-footed Goose
• Purple Sandpiper
• Red-breasted Goose
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-crested Pochard
• Red Knot
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-necked Stint
• Red Phalarope
• Ring-billed Gull
• Ring-necked Duck
• Rough-legged Hawk
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Sabine’s Gull
• Sanderling
• Sandwich Tern
• Short-toed Snake-eagle
• Slender-billed Curlew
• Slender-billed Gull
• Smew
• Snow Goose
• Spotted Redshank
• Steller’s Eider
• Steppe Eagle
• Taiga Bean-goose
• Temminck’s Stint
• Terek Sandpiper
• Tufted Duck
• Tundra Bean-goose
• Tundra Swan
• Velvet Scoter
• Whimbrel
• Whiskered Tern
• White-headed Duck
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-winged Tern
• Whooper Swan
• Yellow-legged Gull

Non-native Birds

• African Sacred Ibis
• Canada Goose
• Egyptian Goose
• Mandarin Duck
• Reeves’s Pheasant
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Rock Pigeon
• Wood Duck

The Czech Republic offers a variety of excellent birding sites for enthusiasts like wildlife photographers and ornithologists. Some of the best birding locations in the country include Šumava National Park, Podyjí National Park, and Lednice-Valtice Complex. The best time to see these birds is in the spring, as most are nesting and breeding during this time.