Birds of Israel

List of Common Birds Found in Israel

Native Birds

• Arabian Babbler
• Barbary Falcon
• Barn Swallow
• Bar-tailed Desert Lark
• Black-eared Wheatear
• Black Francolin
• Black-headed Bunting
• Black Kite
• Black-winged Kite
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
• Bonelli’s Eagle
• Brown-necked Raven
• Calandra Lark
• Caspian Tern
• Chukar Partridge
• Citrine Wagtail
• Common Chaffinch 
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Hoopoe 
• Common Nightingale
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Whitethroat
• Crested Lark
• Dead Sea Sparrow
• Desert Finch
• Desert Lark
• Desert Wheatear
• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
• Egyptian Vulture
• Eurasian Blackbird
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Crag Martin
• Eurasian Griffon
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Penduline Tit
• Eurasian Scops Owl
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Teal
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Bee-eater
• European Goldfinch
• European Nightjar
• European Roller
• European Serin
• European Turtle Dove
• Fan-tailed Raven
• Fire-fronted Serin
• Golden Eagle
• Graceful Warbler
• Great Cormorant
• Great Grey Shrike
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
• Great Tit
• Griffon Vulture
• Hooded Crow
• Houbara Bustard
• House Sparrow
• Isabelline Shrike
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Grey Shrike
• Lesser Kestrel
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Levant Sparrowhawk
• Little Bittern
• Little Crake
• Little Egret
• Little Green Bee-eater
• Little Owl
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Mallard
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Masked Shrike
• Ménétries’s Warbler
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Northern Wheatear
• Nubian Nightjar
• Orphean Warbler
• Palestine Sunbird
• Pallid Swift
• Pied Kingfisher
• Red-footed Falcon
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Red-throated Diver
• Red-throated Pipit
• Rock Bunting
• Rock Nuthatch
• Rock Sparrow
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Rufous Bush Robin
• Rüppell’s Warbler
• Sandgrouse
• Sardinian Warbler
• Slender-billed Gull
• Sooty Falcon
• Spectacled Bulbul
• Steppe Buzzard
• Steppe Eagle
• Striated Heron
• Syrian Serin
• Syrian Woodpecker
• Tawny Pipit
• Temminck’s Lark
• Tristram’s Starling
• Trumpeter Finch
• Western Rock Nuthatch
• White-breasted Kingfisher
• White-eared Bulbul
• White-eyed Gull
• White Spectacled Bulbul
• White Stork
• White-throated Kingfisher
• White-throated Robin
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Black Tern
• Yellow-vented Bulbul
• Yellow Wagtail

Non-native Birds

• Alexanderine Parakeet
• Common Myna
• Common Waxbill
• Egyptian Goose
• House Crow
• Indian Silverbill
• Monk Parakeet
• Nanday Parakeet
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Senegal Parrot
• Vinous-breasted Myna

Some of Israel’s best sites to go birdwatching include Hula Valley Nature Reserve, Jerusalem Bird Observatory, and Ein Gedi Nature Reserve. The best time to see the birds of this country is between March and May, during the peak migration period of many birds, and between August and November, when these birds make their way back.