Birds of Jordan

List of Common Birds Found in Jordan

Native Birds

• Amur Falcon
• Arabian Babbler
• Arabian Warbler
• Arabian Woodpecker
• Armenian Gull
• Barbary Falcon
• Barn Swallow
• Bar-tailed Lark
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-eared Wheatear
• Black Kite
• Black Scrub Robin
• Black Stork
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black Tern
• Black-winged Stilt
• Bluethroat
• Bonelli’s Eagle
• Booted Eagle
• Calandra Lark
• Cattle Egret
• Chukar Partridge
• Collared Pratincole
• Common Buzzard
• Common Chaffinch 
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Gull
• Common Hoopoe 
• Common House Martin
• Common Kestrel
• Common Redshank
• Common Sandpiper
• Crested Lark
• Dead Sea Sparrow
• Desert Lark
• Desert Wheatear
• Dunlin
• Egyptian Vulture
• Eurasian Blackbird
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Green Woodpecker
• Fan-tailed Raven
• Finsch’s Wheatear
• Fire-Fronted Serin
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden Eagle
• Graceful Prinia
• Greater Hoopoe Lark
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Great Tit
• Green Sandpiper
• Gray Heron
• Gray Wagtail
• Griffon Vulture
• Hooded Crow
• Hooded Wheatear
• Horned Lark
• House Sparrow
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Kentish Plover
• Lanner Falcon
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Kestrel
• Lesser Spotted Eagle
• Levant Sparrowhawk
• Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse
• Little Bittern
• Little Egret
• Little Gull
• Little Ringed Plover
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Mallard
• Marsh Harrier
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Meadow Pipit
• Middle Spotted Woodpecker
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mourning Wheatear
• Namaqua Dove
• Northern Wheatear
• Palestine Sunbird
• Peregrine Falcon
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Wheatear
• Purple Heron
• Red-footed Falcon
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Red-throated Pipit
• Rock Bunting
• Rock Dove
• Rock Thrush
• Ruff
• Ruppell’s Weaver
• Saker Falcon
• Sand Martin
• Sand Partridge
• Scrub Warbler
• Short-toed Snake Eagle
• Sinai Rosefinch
• Slender-billed Gull
• Sooty Falcon
• Squacco Heron
• Steppe Eagle
• Syrian Woodpecker
• Tawny Pipit
• Temminck’s Stint
• Tree Pipit
• Tristram’s Starling
• Turtle Dove
• Water Pipit
• Whiskered Tern
• White-crowned Black Wheatear
• White-eared Bulbul
• White-eyed Gull
• White Spectacled Bulbul
• White Stork
• White-throated Robin
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Tern
• Woodlark
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellow-legged Gull
• Yellow Wagtail

Non-native Birds

• Bruce’s Green-pigeon
• Common Myna
• Egyptian Goose
• Indian Silverbill
• North African Ostrich
• Red Avadavat
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Ruddy Duck
• See-see Partridge

There are several places to go birding in Jordan, including Azraq Wetland Reserve, Dana Biosphere Reserve, and Aqaba Bird Observatory. The peak season for birdwatching in Jordan is generally during the spring and autumn months when many bird species either migrate through the country or nest within their diverse habitats.