Birds of Algeria

Algeria is home to various birds, with southern Algeria having greater avian diversity than the northern part. They are most active between May and September, making it the best period to observe them.

For its beauty, the Barbary Partridge is the national bird of Algeria. The Algerian Nuthatch, the Levaillant’s Woodpecker, and the Moussier’s Redstart are endemic to this country, but only the first is exclusively endemic to the nation.

Birds of Algeria

List of Birds Found in Algeria

Native Birds

Ostriches

  • Common Ostrich

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Common Quail
  • Barbary Patridge

Flamingos

Grebes

  • Eared Grebe
  • Great Crested Grebe
  • Horned Grebe
  • Little Grebe

Pigeons and Doves

  • Common Wood-pigeon
  • European Turtle-dove
  • Laughing Dove
  • Namaqua Dove
  • Rock Pigeon
  • Stock Dove

Sandgrouse

  • Black-bellied Sandgrouse
  • Crowned Sandgrouse
  • Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse
  • Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
  • Spotted Sandgrouse

Bustards

  • Arabian Bustard
  • Houbara Bustard

Cuckoos

  • Common Cuckoo
  • Great Spotted Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Egyptian Nightjar
  • Eurasian Nightjar
  • Red-necked Nightjar

Swifts

  • Alpine Swift
  • Common Swift
  • Little Swift
  • Pallid Swift

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Baillon’s Crake
  • Corn Crake
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Little Crake
  • Red-knobbed Coot
  • Spotted Crake
  • Water Rail
  • Western Swamphen

Cranes

  • Common Crane

Thick-knees

  • Eurasian Thick-knee

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Pied Avocet

Oystercatchers

  • Eurasian Oystercatcher

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Eurasian Dotterel
  • European Golden-plover
  • Kentish Plover
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Northern Lapwing
  • White-tailed Lapwing

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Common Greenshank
  • Common Redshank
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Common Snipe
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Dunlin
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Eurasian Woodcock
  • Great Snipe
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Jack Snipe
  • Little Stint
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Red Knot
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Ruff
  • Sanderling
  • Slender-billed Curlew
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Temminck’s Stint
  • Whimbrel
  • Wood Sandpiper

Buttonquails

  • Small Buttonquail

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Collared Pratincole
  • Cream-colored Courser

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Great Skua
  • Parasitic Jaeger

Auks, Murres, and Puffins

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Arctic Tern
  • Audouin’s Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Black-legged Kittiwake
  • Black Tern
  • Caspian Gull
  • Caspian Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Lesser Crested Tern
  • Little Gull
  • Little Tern
  • Mediterranean Gull
  • Roseate Tern
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Slender-billed Gull
  • Whiskered Tern
  • White-winged Tern

Loons

Southern Storm-petrels

  • Wilson’s Storm-petrel

Northern Storm-petrels

  • Leach’s Storm-petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Balearic Shearwater
  • Cory’s Shearwater
  • Great Shearwater
  • Sooty Shearwater
  • Yelkouan Shearwater

Storks

Cormorants and Shags

  • Great Cormorant
  • Pygmy Cormorant
  • European Shag

Boobies and Gannets

  • Northern Gannet

Pelicans

  • Dalmatian Pelican
  • Great White Pelican

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Black-crowned Night-heron
  • Cattle Egret
  • Gray Heron
  • Great Bittern
  • Great Egret
  • Little Bittern
  • Little Egret
  • Purple Heron
  • Squacco Heron

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Eurasian Spoonbill
  • Glossy Ibis

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Bearded Vulture
  • Black Kite
  • Black-winged Kite
  • Bonelli’s Eagle
  • Booted Eagle
  • Common Buzzard
  • Egyptian Vulture
  • Eurasian Griffon
  • Eurasian Marsh-harrier
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  • European Honey-buzzard
  • Golden Eagle
  • Hen Harrier
  • Imperial Eagle
  • Lappet-faced Vulture
  • Lesser Spotted Eagle
  • Long-Legged Buzzard
  • Montagu’s Harrier
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Pallid Harrier
  • Red Kite
  • Short-toed Snake-eagle
  • Tawny Eagle

Barn-owls

Owls

Hoopoes

  • Eurasian Hoopoe

Kingfishers

  • Common Kingfisher

Bee-eaters

  • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
  • European Bee-eater

Rollers

  • European Roller

Woodpeckers

  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • Great-spotted Woodpecker
  • Lesser-spotted Woodpecker
  • Levaillant’s Woodpecker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Barbary Falcon
  • Eleonora’s Falcon
  • Eurasian Hobby
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Lanner Falcon
  • Lesser Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon

Old World Orioles

Bushshrikes and Allies

  • Black-crowned Tchagra

Shrikes

  • Great Gray Shrike
  • Red-tailed Shrike
  • Woodchat Shrike

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Brown-necked Raven
  • Carrion Crow
  • Common Raven
  • Eurasian Jackdaw
  • Eurasian Jay
  • Eurasian Magpie
  • Maghreb Magpie
  • Red-billed Chough

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • African Blue Tit
  • Coal Tit
  • Great Tit

Larks

  • Bar-tailed Lark
  • Calandra Lark
  • Crested Lark
  • Desert Lark
  • Dupont’s Lark
  • Eurasian Skylark
  • Greater Hoopoe-lark
  • Greater Short-toed Lark
  • Mediterranean Short-toed Lark
  • Temminck’s Lark
  • Thekla’s Lark
  • Thick-billed Lark
  • Wood Lark

Bearded Reedling

  • Bearded Reedling

Cisticolas and Allies

  • Zitting Cisticola

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Aquatic Warbler
  • Common Reed Warbler
  • Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
  • Great Reed Warbler
  • Icterine Warbler
  • Marsh Warbler
  • Melodious Warbler
  • Moustached Warbler
  • Olive-tree Warbler
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Western Olivaceous Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies

  • Common Grasshopper-warbler
  • River Warbler
  • Savi’s Warbler

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Common House-martin
  • Eurasian Crag-martin
  • Red-rumped Swallow
  • Rock Martin

Bulbuls

  • Common Bulbul

Leaf Warblers

  • Common Chiffchaff
  • Iberian Chiffchaff
  • Western Bonelli’s Warbler
  • Willow Warbler
  • Wood Warbler

Bush Warblers and Allies

  • Cetti’s Warbler
  • Scrub Warbler

Sylviid Warblers, Parrotbills, and Allies

  • African Desert Warbler
  • Dartford Warbler
  • Eastern Subalpine Warbler
  • Eurasian Blackcap
  • Garden Warbler
  • Greater Whitethroat
  • Lesser Whitethroat
  • Marmora’s Warbler
  • Sardinian Warbler
  • Spectacled Warbler
  • Tristram’s Warbler
  • Western Orphean Warbler
  • Western Subalpine Warbler

Laughingthrushes and Allies

  • Fulvous Chatterer

Kinglets

  • Common Firecrest
  • Goldcrest

Nuthatches

  • Algerian Nuthatch

Treecreepers

  • Short-toed Treecreeper

Wrens

Dippers

  • White-throated Dipper

Starlings

Thrushes and Allies

  • Eurasian Blackbird
  • Mistle Thrush
  • Redwing
  • Ring Ouzel
  • Song Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

  • Atlas Flycatcher
  • Atlas Wheatear
  • Black Redstart
  • Black Wheatear
  • Blue Rock-thrush
  • Bluethroat
  • Collared Flycatcher
  • Common Nightingale
  • Common Redstart
  • Desert Wheatear
  • Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
  • European Pied Flycatcher
  • European Robin
  • European Stonechat
  • Isabelline Wheatear
  • Mourning Wheatear
  • Moussier’s Redstart
  • Northern Wheatear
  • Red-breasted Flycatcher
  • Red-rumped Wheatear
  • Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
  • Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • Western Black-eared Wheatear
  • Whinchat
  • White-crowned Wheatear

Waxwings

  • Bohemian Waxwing

Waxbills and allies

  • Red-billed Firefinch

Accentors

  • Alpine Accentor
  • Dunnock

Old World Sparrows

  • Desert Sparrow
  • House Sparrow
  • Rock Sparrow
  • Spanish Sparrow
  • Sudan Golden Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Gray Wagtail
  • Meadow Pipit
  • Red-throated Pipit
  • Richard’s Pipit
  • Rock Pipit
  • Tawny Pipit
  • Tree Pipit
  • Water Pipit
  • Western Yellow Wagtail
  • White Wagtail

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Brambling
  • Common Chaffinch
  • Crimson-winged Finch
  • Eurasian Bullfinch
  • Eurasian Linnet
  • Eurasian Siskin
  • European Goldfinch
  • European Greenfinch
  • European Serin
  • Hawfinch
  • Red Crossbill
  • Trumpeter Finch

Old World Buntings

  • Cirl Bunting
  • Corn Bunting
  • Cretzschmar’s Bunting
  • House Bunting
  • Ortolan Bunting
  • Reed Bunting
  • Rock Bunting
  • Striolated Bunting

Non-native Birds

African and New World parrots

  • Dusky Parrot

Auks, Murres, and Puffins

  • Common Murre

Bee-eaters

  • White-throated Bee-eater

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Pied Crow
  • Rook

Cuckoos

  • Pied Cuckoo

Ducks, geese, and waterfowl

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Red-footed Falcon
  • Sooty Falcon

Flamingos

  • Lesser Flamingo

Grebes

  • Red-necked Grebe

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Red-legged Partridge
  • Ring-necked Pheasant

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Common Gull
  • Grey-hooded Gull
  • Sabine’s Gull
  • Yellow-legged Gull

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Cinereous Vulture
  • Greater Spotted Eagle
  • Verreaux’s Eagle

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Black-headed Heron
  • Western Reef-heron

Larks

  • Black-crowned Sparrow-lark
  • Dunn’s Lark
  • Horned Lark

Loons

  • Red-throated Loon

Mousebirds

  • Blue-naped Mousebird

Owls

Sylviid warblers, Parrotbills, and Allies

  • Moltoni’s Warbler
  • Rüppell’s Warbler

Penduline-tits

  • Eurasian Penduline-tit

Pigeons and Doves

  • Eurasian Collared-dove

Thrushes and Allies

  • Fieldfare

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • African Crake
  • Allen’s Gallinule
  • Striped Crake

Northern Storm-petrels

  • European Storm-petrel

Old World Flycatchers

  • Black Scrub-robin

Old World Parrots

  • Rose-ringed Parakeet

Old World Sparrows

  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  • Italian Sparrow

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Citril Finch

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

  • Lapland Longspur
  • Snow Bunting

Old World Buntings

  • Black-headed Bunting
  • Little Bunting
  • Rustic Bunting
  • Yellowhammer

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Pacific Golden-plover

Sandgrouse

  • Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Pectoral Sandpiper

Wallcreepers

  • Wallcreeper

Shrikes

  • Masked Shrike
  • Red-backed Shrike

Skuas and jaegers

  • Pomarine Jaeger

Swallows

  • Plain Martin

Leaf Warblers

  • Yellow-browed Warbler

Waxbills and Allies

  • African Silverbill
  • Cut-throat
  • Indian Silverbill

Algeria is the second-largest African country, with much of its interior yet to be explored. However, there are some places where birdwatchers may see these birds in the wild. These include Bouafroun Forest, Lac Oubeïra, and Tamanrasset River.

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