Birds of Uzbekistan

List of Common Birds Found in Uzbekistan

Native Birds

• Asian Desert Warbler
• Barn Swallow
• Bearded Reedling
• Bimaculated Lark
• Black-eared Wheatear
• Black Francolin
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-headed Wagtail
• Black Kite
• Black Redstart
• Black Stork
• Black-throated Thrush
• Black-winged Kite
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
• Blyth’s Reed Warbler
• Booted Warbler
• Calandra Lark
• Caspian Gull
• Citrine Wagtail
• Collared Flycatcher
• Common Chaffinch
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Cuckoo
• Common Hoopoe
• Common Kestrel
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Myna
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Snipe
• Common Starling
• Crested Lark
• Dalmatian Pelican
• Demoiselle Crane
• Desert Finch
• Desert Wheatear
• Eastern Imperial Eagle
• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
• Eastern Orphean Warbler
• Eastern Rock Nuthatch
• Eurasian Bittern
• Eurasian Blackbird
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Penduline Tit
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Bee-eater
• European Goldfinch
• European Nightjar
• European Pied Flycatcher
• European Roller
• European Serin
• European Stonechat
• Fire-fronted Serin
• Greater Short-toed Lark
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Tit
• Great White Pelican
• Greenish Warbler
• Gray Heron
• Hooded Crow
• House Sparrow
• Hume’s Warbler
• Hume’s Whitethroat
• Isabelline Shrike
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Gray Shrike
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Little Bittern
• Little Bunting
• Little Bustard
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Owl
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Long-tailed Shrike
• Mallard
• Marbled Duck
• Masked Shrike
• Menetries’s Bunting
• Ménétries’s Warbler
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Moustached Warbler
• Northern Lapwing
• Northern Wheatear
• Olive-backed Pipit
• Paddyfield Warbler
• Pallas’s Gull
• Pallas’s Sea Eagle
• Pallid Scops Owl
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Wheatear
• Purple Swamphen
• Red-backed Shrike
• Red-crested Pochard
• Red-fronted Serin
• Rock Bunting
• Rock Martin
• Rock Pigeon
• Rock Sparrow
• Ruddy-breasted Crake
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush
• Sedge Warbler
• Short-toed Snake Eagle
• Slaty-backed Flycatcher
• Steppe Eagle
• Steppe Gray Shrike
• Sykes’s Warbler
• Tawny Pipit
• Western Marsh Harrier
• Western Rock Nuthatch
• Western Swamphen
• White-crowned Penduline Tit
• White Stork
• White-tailed Lapwing
• White-throated Robin
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Grosbeak
• White-winged Lark
• White-winged Tern
• White-winged Woodpecker
• Yellow-breasted Tit

Non-native Birds

• European Golden Plover
• Great Bustard
• Greater Flamingo
• Ibisbill
• Namaqua Dove
• Pacific Swift
• Siberian Crane
• Snow Goose
• Sociable Lapwing
• Tundra Swan

Some of the best places to go birding in Uzbekistan include Zaamin National Park, Chimgan Mountains, and Chatkal Mountains. The peak birding season in Uzbekistan typically occurs during the spring and autumn months, as these are the times when bird migration is at its height.