Birds of Kyrgyzstan

List of Common Birds Found in Kyrgyzstan

Native Birds

• Asian Desert Warbler
• Azure Tit
• Azure-winged Magpie
• Barn Swallow
• Bearded Vulture
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black Kite
• Black Redstart
• Black Stork
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-throated Accentor
• Black-winged Kite
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue Rock Thrush
• Blyth’s Reed Warbler
• Booted Eagle
• Caspian Plover
• Caspian Tern
• Cinereous Vulture
• Common Chaffinch 
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Cuckoo
• Common Greenshank
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Myna
• Common Pochard
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Snipe
• Corn Bunting
• Crested Lark
• Daurian Redstart
• Demoiselle Crane
• Eurasian Blackbird
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
• Eurasian Penduline Tit
• Eurasian Reed Warbler
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Honey Buzzard
• European Robin
• Ferruginous Duck
• Ferruginous Pochard
• Fire-fronted Serin
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden Eagle
• Great Cormorant
• Great Crested Grebe
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Tit
• Greenish Warbler
• Green Sandpiper
• Grey-headed Goldfinch
• Gray Heron
• Griffon Vulture
• Guldenstadt’s Redstart
• Himalayan Snowcock
• House Sparrow
• Hume’s Leaf Warbler
• Icterine Warbler
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Little Bunting
• Little Crake
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Owl
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-tailed Tit
• Mallard
• Marsh Harrier
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Mistle Thrush
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Wheatear
• Oriental Turtle Dove
• Osprey
• Paddyfield Warbler
• Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
• Pallid Harrier
• Red-billed Chough
• Red-breasted Flycatcher
• Red-crested Pochard
• Red-footed Falcon
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-throated Pipit
• Rock Bunting
• Rock Ptarmigan
• Rock Sparrow
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Ruff
• Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush
• Saker Falcon
• Sedge Warbler
• Short-toed Treecreeper
• Siberian Accentor
• Slavonian Grebe
• Slender-billed Gull
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Spotted Redshank
• Steppe Buzzard
• Steppe Eagle
• Tawny Owl
• Temminck’s Stint
• Tufted Duck
• Upland Buzzard
• Water Rail
• White-crowned Penduline Tit
• White-headed Duck
• White Stork
• White-tailed Sea Eagle
• White-throated Dipper
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Scoter
• White-winged Tern
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellow-billed Chough
• Yellow-breasted Tit
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Yellowhammer

Non-native Birds

• Baikal Teal
• Brooks’s Leaf Warbler
• Great Bustard
• Levant Sparrowhawk
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Plumbeous Redstart
• Rock Partridge
• Snow Bunting
• Tundra Swan
• White’s Thrush

Kyrgyzstan offers a variety of excellent birding sites due to its diverse landscapes and rich avian diversity, with some popular sites including Ala-Archa National Park, Issyk-Kul Lake, and Sary-Chelek Biosphere Reserve. The peak season for birding in Kyrgyzstan typically falls during the spring and summer months when the weather is milder, and bird activity is at its highest. The best time to visit for birdwatching is generally from April to September.