Birds of Kuwait

List of Common Birds Found in Kuwait

Native Birds

• Arabian Babbler
• Arabian Warbler
• Arctic Tern
• Barbary Falcon
• Barn Swallow
• Bar-tailed Lark
• Black-bellied Sandgrouse
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-headed Gull
• Black Kite
• Black-necked Grebe
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-winged Kite
• Black-winged Stilt
• Bonelli’s Eagle
• Booted Eagle
• Broad-billed Sandpiper
• Calandra Lark
• Caspian Gull
• Cattle Egret
• Citrine Wagtail
• Collared Pratincole
• Common Buzzard
• Common Chaffinch 
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Crane
• Common Hoopoe 
• Common House Martin
• Common Kestrel
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Myna
• Common Quail
• Common Redshank
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Swift
• Common Tern
• Crested Lark
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Dalmatian Pelican
• Desert Finch
• Desert Wheatear
• Dunlin
• Eastern Imperial Eagle
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Coot
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Marsh Harrier
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Bee-eater
• European Roller
• European Turtle Dove
• Golden Eagle
• Graceful Prinia
• Gray Heron
• Gray Wagtail
• Great Crested Grebe
• Great Egret
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Sand Plover
• Greater Short-toed Lark
• Hoopoe
• House Sparrow
• Imperial Eagle
• Indian Pond Heron
• Indian Roller
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Kentish Plover
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Crested Tern
• Lesser Kestrel
• Lesser Sand Plover
• Lesser Short-toed Lark
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Gull
• Little Owl
• Little Stint
• Little Tern
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Mallard
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Meadow Pipit
• Merlin
• Middle Spotted Woodpecker
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Moorhen
• Namaqua Dove
• Northern Wheatear
• Pallid Harrier
• Pallid Swift
• Peregrine Falcon
• Purple Heron
• Red-footed Falcon
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Red-throated Pipit
• Rock Dove
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Saker Falcon
• Sanderling
• Sand Martin
• Sandwich Tern
• Short-toed Snake Eagle
• Slender-billed Gull
• Socotra Cormorant
• Spotted Redshank
• Squacco Heron
• Steppe Eagle
• Swift Tern
• Tawny Eagle
• Tawny Pipit
• Temminck’s Stint
• Thekla Lark
• Tree Pipit
• Water Rail
• Western Osprey
• Western Reef Heron
• Whiskered Tern
• White-eared Bulbul
• White Pelican
• White Stork
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-tailed Lapwing
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Tern
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellow-legged Gull
• Yellow-vented Bulbul
• Yellow Wagtail

Non-native Birds

• African Collared-dove
• Bank Myna
• Chukar Patridge
• Common Myna
• House Crow
• Red-vented Bulbul
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• See-see Partridge

Some of the best places to see birds in Kuwait include Jahra Pools Reserve, Sabah Al-Ahmad Natural Reserve, and Sulaibikhat Nature Reserve. The peak time for birding in Kuwait generally occurs during the spring and autumn migration seasons.