Birds of Armenia

Despite its relatively small size, Armenia has a diverse variety of birds living there. Several of them are regional variants of avian species found in Europe. The best time to experience this diversity is between May and June and between September and October when they are most active.

The national bird of Armenia is the Golden Eagle, which symbolizes power and strength.

Birds of Armenia

List of Birds Found in Armenia

Native Birds

Accentors

  • Alpine Accentor
  • Dunnock
  • Radde’s Accentor

Barn-owls

Bearded Reedling

  • Bearded Reedling

Bee-eaters

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

Bush Warblers and Allies

  • Cetti’s Warbler

Bustards

  • Great Bustard
  • Little Bustard

Cormorants and Shags

  • Great Cormorant
  • Pygmy Cormorant

Cranes

  • Common Crane
  • Demoiselle Crane

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Carrion Crow
  • Common Raven
  • Eurasian Jackdaw
  • Eurasian Jay
  • Eurasian Magpie
  • Hooded Crow
  • Red-billed Chough
  • Rook
  • Yellow-billed Chough

Cuckoos

  • Common Cuckoo
  • Great Spotted Cuckoo

Dippers

  • White-throated Dipper

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Eurasian Hobby
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Lanner Falcon
  • Lesser Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Red-footed Falcon
  • Saker Falcon

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

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

Flamingos

Grassbirds and Allies

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

Grebes

  • Eared Grebe
  • Great Crested Grebe
  • Horned Grebe
  • Little Grebe
  • Red-necked Grebe

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Armenian Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Black Tern
  • Caspian Gull
  • Caspian Tern
  • Common Gull
  • Common Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Little Gull
  • Little Tern
  • Mediterranean Gull
  • Pallas’s Gull
  • Slender-billed Gull
  • Whiskered Tern
  • White-winged Tern

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Bearded Vulture
  • Black Kite
  • Booted Eagle
  • Cinereous Vulture
  • Common Buzzard
  • Egyptian Vulture
  • Eurasian Griffon
  • Eurasian Marsh-harrier
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  • European Honey-buzzard
  • Golden Eagle
  • Greater Spotted Eagle
  • Hen Harrier
  • Imperial Eagle
  • Lesser Spotted Eagle
  • Levant Sparrowhawk
  • Long-legged Buzzard
  • Montagu’s Harrier
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Pallid Harrier
  • Red Kite
  • Rough-legged Hawk
  • Shikra
  • Short-toed Snake-eagle
  • Steppe Eagle
  • White-tailed Eagle

Herons, Egrets, And Bitterns

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

Hoopoes

  • Eurasian Hoopoe

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Eurasian Spoonbill
  • Glossy Ibis

Kingfishers

  • Common Kingfisher

Kinglets

  • Common Firecrest
  • Goldcrest

Larks

  • Bimaculated Lark
  • Calandra Lark
  • Crested Lark
  • Eurasian Skylark
  • Greater Short-toed Lark
  • Horned Lark
  • Turkestan Short-toed Lark
  • Wood Lark

Leaf Warblers

  • Common Chiffchaff
  • Green Warbler
  • Mountain Chiffchaff
  • Willow Warbler
  • Wood Warbler

Long-tailed tits

  • Long-tailed Tit

Loons

  • Arctic Loon
  • Red-throated Loon

Nightjars

  • Eurasian Nightjar

Nuthatches

  • Eastern Rock Nuthatch
  • Eurasian Nuthatch
  • Western Rock Nuthatch

Old World Buntings

  • Black-headed Bunting
  • Corn Bunting
  • Gray-necked Bunting
  • Ortolan Bunting
  • Reed Bunting
  • Rock Bunting
  • Yellowhammer

Old World flycatchers

  • Black Redstart
  • Blue Rock-thrush
  • Bluethroat
  • Common Redstart
  • Desert Wheatear
  • Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
  • European Pied Flycatcher
  • European Robin
  • European Stonechat
  • Finsch’s Wheatear
  • Isabelline Wheatear
  • Northern Wheatear
  • Persian Wheatear
  • Pied Wheatear
  • Red-Breasted Flycatcher
  • Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
  • Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin
  • Semicollared Flycatcher
  • Siberian Stonechat
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • Thrush Nightingale
  • Whinchat
  • White-throated Robin

Old World Orioles

Old World Sparrows

  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  • House Sparrow
  • Pale Rockfinch
  • Rock Sparrow
  • Spanish Sparrow
  • White-winged Snowfinch

Osprey

  • Osprey

Owls

Oystercatchers

  • Eurasian Oystercatcher

Pelicans

  • Dalmatian Pelican
  • Great White Pelican

Penduline-tits

  • Eurasian Penduline-tit

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Black Francolin
  • Caspian Snowcock
  • Caucasian Grouse
  • Chukar
  • Common Quail
  • Gray Partridge
  • Ring-necked Pheasant

Pigeons and Doves

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

Plovers and Lapwings

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

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Collared Pratincole
  • Black-winged Pratincole

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Baillon’s Crake
  • Corn Crake
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Gray-headed Swamphen
  • Little Crake
  • Water Rail

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
  • Eurasian Reed Warbler
  • Great Reed Warbler
  • Icterine Warbler
  • Marsh Warbler
  • Moustached Warbler
  • Paddyfield Warbler
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Upcher’s Warbler

Rollers

  • European Roller

Sandgrouse

  • Black-bellied Sandgrouse

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Broad-billed Sandpiper
  • 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-necked Phalarope
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Ruff
  • Sanderling
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Temminck’s Stint
  • Terek Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper

Shrikes

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

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Pomarine Jaeger
  • Parasitic Jaeger

Starlings

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Pied Avocet

Storks

Swallows

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

Swifts

  • Alpine Swift
  • Common Swift

Sylviid Warblers, Parrotbills, and Allies

  • Barred Warbler
  • Eastern Orphean Warbler
  • Eurasian Blackcap
  • Garden Warbler
  • Greater Whitethroat
  • Lesser Whitethroat
  • Menetries’s Warbler

Thrushes and Allies

  • Black-throated Thrush
  • Eurasian Blackbird
  • Fieldfare
  • Mistle Thrush
  • Redwing
  • Ring Ouzel
  • Song Thrush

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Coal Tit
  • Eurasian Blue Tit
  • Great Tit
  • Sombre Tit

Treecreepers

  • Eurasian Treecreeper

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Citrine Wagtail
  • Gray Wagtail
  • Meadow Pipit
  • Red-throated Pipit
  • Tawny Pipit
  • Tree Pipit
  • Water Pipit
  • Western Yellow Wagtail
  • White Wagtail

Woodpeckers

  • Black Woodpecker
  • Eurasian Green Woodpecker
  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
  • Middle Spotted Woodpecker
  • Syrian Woodpecker
  • White-backed Woodpecker

Wrens

Non-native Birds

Bulbuls

  • White-eared Bulbul

Cisticolas and Allies

  • Zitting Cisticola

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Common Scoter
  • Long-tailed Duck

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Eleonora’s Falcon

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Desert Finch
  • European Serin
  • Long-tailed Rosefinch

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Arctic Tern
  • Sandwich Tern

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Black-winged Kite
  • Bonelli’s Eagle
  • Oriental Honey-buzzard
  • Pallas’s Fish-eagle

Kingfishers

  • Pied Kingfisher

Larks

  • Black Lark
  • Oriental Skylark

Leaf Warblers

  • Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler

Longspurs and Arctic Buntings

  • Snow Bunting

Old World Buntings

  • Pine Bunting
  • Rustic Bunting

Old World Flycatchers

  • Collared Flycatcher
  • Common Nightingale
  • White-winged Redstart

Owls

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • See-see Partridge

Pigeons and Doves

  • Namaqua Dove

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Red-wattled Lapwing
  • Greater Sand-plover

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Spotted Crake

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Booted Warbler
  • Olive-tree Warbler

Sandgrouse

  • Pin-tailed Sandgrouse

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Whimbrel

Shrikes

  • Masked Shrike

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Long-tailed Jaeger

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Crested Tit

Thick-knees

  • Eurasian Thick-knee

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Richard’s Pipit

Wallcreeper

  • Wallcreeper

Waxwings

  • Bohemian Waxwing

There are several popular places to see birds in Armenia, including the Gull Island at Lake Sevan and the gorge of the Azat River.

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