Birds of Norway

List of Common Birds Found in Norway

Native Birds

• Arctic Skua
• Arctic Tern
• Atlantic Black Guillemot
• Atlantic Puffin
• Barnacle Goose
• Barn Swallow
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Bearded Reedling
• Black-browed Albatross
• Black Grouse
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Black-necked Grebe
• Black Tern
• Black-throated Diver
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue Tit
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Brant Goose
• Brünnich’s Guillemot
• Eurasian Bullfinch
• Coal Tit
• Common Blackbird
• Common Buzzard
• Common Chaffinch
• Common Crane
• Common Eider
• Common Greenshank
• Common Guillemot
• Common Gull
• Common Kestrel
• Common Merganser
• Common Moorhen
• Common Murre
• Common Redshank
• Common Redstart
• Common Ringed Plover
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Scoter
• Common Snipe
• Common Teal
• Common Wood Pigeon 
• Crested Tit
• Dunlin
• Dunnock
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Coot
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Dotterel
• Eurasian Eagle-owl
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Jackdaw
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
• Eurasian Penduline tit
• Eurasian Shoveler
• Eurasian Siskin
• Eurasian Thick-knee
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Eurasian Wren
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Golden Plover
• European Goldfinch
• European Greenfinch
• European Green Woodpecker
• European Herring Gull
• European Honey Buzzard
• European Oystercatcher
• European Robin
• European Serin
• European Shag
• European Starling
• European Storm Petrel
• Fieldfare
• Gadwall
• Glaucous Gull
• Golden Eagle
• Gray Heron
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Great Cormorant
• Great Northern Diver
• Great Shearwater
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Great Tit
• Green Sandpiper
• Graylag Goose
• Gray Plover
• Gyrfalcon
• Hawfinch
• Hen Harrier
• Horned Grebe
• House Sparrow
• Iceland Gull
• Ivory gull
• Kentish Plover
• King Eider
• Leach’s Storm Petrel
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Little Auk
• Little Gull
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Tern
• Long-tailed Duck
• Long-tailed Skua
• Long-tailed Tit
• Manx Shearwater
• Marsh Tit
• Merlin
• Mute Swan
• Northern Fulmar
• Northern Gannet
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Harrier
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Raven
• Northern Wheatear
• Eurasian Nuthatch
• Osprey
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Peregrine Falcon
• Pink-footed Goose
• Purple Sandpiper
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red Knot
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red Phalarope
• Red-throated Diver
• Red-throated Loon
• Redwing
• Ringed Plover
• Rough-legged Buzzard
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Sanderling
• Sandwich Tern
• Slavonian Grebe
• Smew
• Snow Bunting
• Sooty Shearwater
• Spotted Redshank
• Tawny Owl
• Tufted Duck
• Velvet Scoter
• Whimbrel
• Whiskered Tern
• White-backed Woodpecker
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-throated Dipper
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Tern
• Willow Tit 
• Willow Warbler
• Wilson’s Phalarope
• Wilson’s Snipe
• Wood Sandpiper
• Yellowhammer 

Non-native Birds

• Bar-headed Goose
• Egyptian Goose
• Mandarin Duck
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• Rock Pigeon
• Ruddy Duck

Some of the best birding sites in Norway include Varanger Peninsula, Jomfruland National Park, and Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park. The peak birding season in Norway typically occurs during the spring and summer months when many migratory species arrive to breed and take advantage of the abundant food resources.