Birds of Turkey

List of Common Birds Found in Turkey

Native Birds

• Alpine Swift 
• Barn Swallow
• Blackcap
• Black-eared Wheatear
• Black-headed Bunting
• Black Kite
• Black Redstart
• Black Stork
• Black-winged Kite
• Black-winged Stilt
• Booted Warbler
• Calandra Lark
• Cetti’s Warbler
• Chukar Partridge
• Common Blackbird
• Common Chaffinch 
• Common Kestrel
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Nightingale
• Common Quail
• Common Redstart
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Snipe
• Common Stonechat
• Common Whitethroat
• Cream-colored courser 
• Crested Lark
• Cyprus Warbler
• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Crag Martin
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Jackdaw
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Penduline Tit
• Eurasian Reed Warbler
• Eurasian Scops Owl
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Woodcock
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Bee-eater
• European Goldfinch
• European Greenfinch
• European Green Woodpecker
• European Honey Buzzard
• European Pied Flycatcher
• European Robin
• European Roller
• European Serin
• European Starling
• European Turtle Dove
• Finsch’s Wheatear
• Glossy Ibis
• Goldcrest
• Golden Eagle
• Greater Flamingo 
• Greater Short-toed Lark
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Great Tit
• Green Sandpiper
• Gray Heron
• Griffon Vulture
• Hawfinch
• House Martin
• House Sparrow
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Kentish Plover
• Lesser Gray Shrike
• Little Crake
• Little Egret
• Little Owl
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Masked Shrike
• Meadow Pipit
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Moustached Warbler
• Northern Bald Ibis 
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Wheatear
• Olive-tree Warbler
• Ortolan Bunting
• Pallid Harrier
• Penduline Tit
• Purple Heron
• Red-backed Shrike
• Red-breasted Flycatcher
• Red-fronted Serin
• Red-rumped Swallow
• Redwing
• Rock Partridge
• Rock Sparrow
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Ruff
• Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
• Ruppell’s Warbler
• Sedge Warbler
• Semi-collared Flycatcher
• Short-toed Lark
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Steppe Buzzard
• Steppe Eagle
• Syrian Woodpecker
• Tawny Pipit
• Water Pipit
• Western Cattle Egret
• Western Marsh Harrier
• White-breasted Kingfisher
• White Stork
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-throated Dipper
• White-throated Robin
• White Wagtail
• Willow Warbler
• Wood Sandpiper

Non-native Birds

• Alexandrine Parakeet
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Common Myna
• Common Redpoll
• Hypocolius
• Mourning Wheatear
• Pied Bushchat
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Siberian Accentor
• Snow Bunting

Some of the best birding sites in Turkey include Bosphorus Strait, Lake Van, and Lake Kus Golu. Turkey has two peak birding seasons – the spring migration from April to early June and the autumn migration from August to October.