Birds of Indonesia

List of Common Birds Found in Indonesia

Native Birds

• Bali Myna
• Banded Broadbill
• Banded Pitta
• Barn Swallow
• Barred Buttonquail
• Black-and-red Broadbill
• Black-backed Dwarf Kingfisher
• Black-banded Barbet
• Black-banded Owl
• Black Baza
• Black-capped Lory
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-crowned Pitta
• Black Drongo
• Black-fronted Flowerpecker
• Black-fronted Tern
• Black-headed Munia
• Black Kite
• Black-naped Fruit Dove
• Black-naped Fruit Dove
• Black-naped Oriole
• Black-thighed Falconet
• Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike
• Black-winged Myna
• Blue-and-white Kingfisher
• Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
• Blue-eared Lory
• Blue-headed Pitta
• Blue-rumped Parrot
• Blyth’s Hornbill
• Bornean Whistler
• Cerulean Kingfisher
• Chestnut-backed Scimitar Babbler
• Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher
• Citrine Canary-flycatcher
• Citron-crested Cockatoo
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Myna
• Cream-browed White-eye
• Crested Jay
• Crested White-eye
• Dark-backed Imperial Pigeon
• Elegant Pitta
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Flores Hawk-eagle
• Flores Monarch
• Golden-bellied Gerygone
• Golden-mantled Racket-tail
• Gray-cheeked Tit-babbler
• Gray Heron
• Great Argus
• Great-billed Heron
• Green Junglefowl
• Green Peafowl
• Gray-breasted Spiderhunter
• Gray-cheeked Green Pigeon
• Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher
• Gray-headed Gull
• Gray-headed Imperial Pigeon
• Gray-rumped Treeswift
• Helmeted Friarbird
• Indonesian Cuckooshrike
• Indonesian Honeyeater
• Javan Kingfisher
• Javan Cuckooshrike
• Javan Flameback
• Javan Frogmouth
• Javan Green Magpie
• Javan Hawk-eagle
• Javan Hawk-owl
• Javan Munia
• Javan Owlet
• Javan Scops Owl
• Javan Trogon
• Javan Whistling Thrush
• Javan White-eye
• Javan Woodcock
• Java Sparrow
• King Bird-of-paradise
• Knobbed Hornbill
• Large-tailed Nightjar
• Lesser Bird-of-paradise
• Lesser Sunda Hanging Parrot
• Lesser Sunda Owl
• Little Egret
• Little Spiderhunter
• Long-tailed Broadbill
• Long-tailed Shrike
• Maluku Masked Owl
• Moluccan Drongo
• Moluccan King Parrot
• Moluccan Owlet-nightjar
• Olive-backed Sunbird
• Oriental Magpie-robin
• Pale-bellied Myna
• Pale-blue Flycatcher
• Pale-blue Monarch
• Pale-headed Munia
• Palm Cockatoo
• Pied Stilt
• Pink-headed Fruit Dove
• Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon
• Raja Shelduck
• Red Bird-of-paradise
• Red-wattled Lapwing
• Ruddy Cuckoo-dove
• Rufous-bellied Eagle
• Rufous-throated Partridge
• Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker
• Scarlet Minivet
• Seram Friarbird
• Slaty-backed Thrush
• Sooty-headed Bulbul
• Southern Cassowary
• Spectacled Monarch
• Spotted Dove
• Sula Pitta
• Sula Scrubfowl
• Sulawesi Babbler
• Sulawesi Cicadabird
• Sulawesi Hornbill
• Sulawesi Myzomela
• Sulawesi Pitta
• Sulawesi Scops Owl
• Sulawesi Serpent Eagle
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
• Sumatran Green Pigeon
• Sumatran Ground Cuckoo
• Sumatran Laughingthrush
• Sumatran Leafbird
• Sumatran Trogon
• Sumba Hornbill
• Sunda Blue Robin
• Sunda Bush Warbler
• Sunda Coucal
• Sunda Minivet
• Sunda Scops Owl
• Sunda Teal
• Tanimbar Corella
• Twelve-wired Bird-of-paradise
• Wallace’s Fruit Dove
• Wallace’s Hanging Parrot
• Wallace’s Standardwing
• White-bellied Fish Eagle
• White Cockatoo
• White-rumped Munia
• White-rumped Shama
• White-shouldered Ibis
• White-shouldered Triller
• White-tailed Tropicbird
• White-throated Kingfisher
• Zebra Dove

Non-native Birds

• Bornean Leafbird
• House Sparrow
• Jungle Myna
• Red-whiskered Bulbul
• Rosy Starling
• Taiga Flycatcher
• White Wagtail

Some of the best birding sites in Indonesia include Gunung Leuser National Park, Way Kambas National Park, and Komodo National Park. The dry season from May to September and the migratory season from September to April are the best times to go birdwatching in the country.