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Andaman and Nicobar Islands bird checklist

362 bird species in 71 families have been recorded in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, according to eBird; about 231 of them are seen regularly, and the rest are rarities, vagrants and escaped or introduced birds. Download the full list as a PDF, or tick birds off on your phone, with counts and notes, even without signal.

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Species data: eBird.org, updated · How these lists are made

The most common birds in Andaman and Nicobar Islands right now

  1. 1Common Myna
  2. 2Little Egret
  3. 3Barn Swallow
  4. 4Rock Pigeon
  5. 5Eastern Cattle-Egret
  6. 6House Sparrow
  7. 7Gray Wagtail
  8. 8Purple Heron
  9. 9Pacific Golden-Plover
  10. 10Tibetan Sand-Plover
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Andaman and Nicobar Islands bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Lesser Whistling-Duck
  • Knob-billed Duck
  • Ruddy Shelduck
  • Cotton Pygmy-Goose
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Garganey
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • Mallard
  • Northern Pintail
  • Andaman Teal
  • Ferruginous Duck
  • Tufted Duck

Megapodes

  • Nicobar Megapode

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Wild Turkey
  • Indian Peafowl
  • Red Junglefowl
  • Gray Francolin
  • Japanese Quail

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Andaman Wood-Pigeon
  • Oriental Turtle-Dove
  • Red Collared-Dove
  • Andaman Cuckoo-Dove
  • Asian Emerald Dove
  • Nicobar Pigeon
  • Andaman Green-Pigeon
  • Green Imperial-Pigeon
  • Nicobar Imperial-Pigeon
  • Pied Imperial-Pigeon

Cuckoos

  • Andaman Coucal
  • Lesser Coucal
  • Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
  • Pied Cuckoo
  • Asian Koel
  • Asian Emerald Cuckoo
  • Violet Cuckoo
  • Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
  • Banded Bay Cuckoo
  • Plaintive Cuckoo
  • Gray-bellied Cuckoo
  • Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
  • Large Hawk-Cuckoo
  • Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo
  • Lesser Cuckoo
  • Indian Cuckoo
  • Himalayan Cuckoo
  • Common Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Gray Nightjar
  • Andaman Nightjar

Swifts

  • White-throated Needletail
  • Brown-backed Needletail
  • Plume-toed Swiftlet
  • Himalayan Swiftlet
  • White-nest Swiftlet
  • Common Swift
  • Pacific Swift
  • Blyth's Swift
  • House Swift
  • Asian Palm Swift

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Corn Crake
  • Slaty-breasted Rail
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Gray-headed Swamphen
  • White-browed Crake
  • Watercock
  • White-breasted Waterhen
  • Andaman Crake
  • Red-legged Crake
  • Slaty-legged Crake
  • Ruddy-breasted Crake
  • Band-bellied Crake
  • Baillon's Crake

Thick-knees

  • Beach Thick-knee

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Northern Lapwing
  • Gray-headed Lapwing
  • Oriental Plover
  • Tibetan Sand-Plover
  • Greater Sand-Plover
  • Kentish Plover
  • White-faced Plover

Painted-Snipes

  • Greater Painted-Snipe

Jacanas

  • Pheasant-tailed Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Eurasian Whimbrel
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Asian Dowitcher
  • Jack Snipe
  • Wood Snipe
  • Swinhoe's Snipe
  • Pin-tailed Snipe
  • Common Snipe
  • Terek Sandpiper
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Gray-tailed Tattler
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper
  • Common Redshank
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Common Greenshank
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Great Knot
  • Red Knot
  • Ruff
  • Broad-billed Sandpiper
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Temminck's Stint
  • Long-toed Stint
  • Red-necked Stint
  • Sanderling
  • Little Stint
  • Pectoral Sandpiper

Buttonquail

  • Yellow-legged Buttonquail

Crab-Plover

  • Crab-Plover

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Small Pratincole
  • Collared Pratincole
  • Oriental Pratincole

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Long-tailed Jaeger
  • Parasitic Jaeger
  • Pomarine Jaeger

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Black-headed Gull
  • Brown-headed Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Brown Noddy
  • Lesser Noddy
  • Black Noddy
  • Sooty Tern
  • Bridled Tern
  • Little Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Whiskered Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Black-naped Tern
  • Roseate Tern
  • Lesser Crested Tern
  • Great Crested Tern

Grebes

  • Little Grebe

Tropicbirds

  • White-tailed Tropicbird
  • Red-billed Tropicbird
  • Red-tailed Tropicbird

Southern Storm-Petrels

  • Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Barau's Petrel
  • Jouanin's Petrel
  • Streaked Shearwater
  • Flesh-footed Shearwater
  • Wedge-tailed Shearwater

Storks

  • Asian Openbill

Frigatebirds

  • Lesser Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Red-footed Booby
  • Masked Booby

Anhingas

  • Oriental Darter

Cormorants and Shags

  • Little Cormorant
  • Indian Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Glossy Ibis

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Black Bittern
  • Cinnamon Bittern
  • Yellow Bittern
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Malayan Night Heron
  • Pacific Reef-Heron
  • Chinese Egret
  • Little Egret
  • Little Heron
  • Indian Pond-Heron
  • Chinese Pond-Heron
  • Javan Pond-Heron
  • Eastern Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Medium Egret
  • Gray Heron
  • Purple Heron

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Jerdon's Baza
  • Black Baza
  • Oriental Honey-buzzard
  • Nicobar Serpent-Eagle
  • Crested Serpent-Eagle
  • Andaman Serpent-Eagle
  • Changeable Hawk-Eagle
  • Booted Eagle
  • Besra
  • Japanese Sparrowhawk
  • Nicobar Sparrowhawk
  • Chinese Sparrowhawk
  • Western Marsh Harrier
  • Eastern Marsh Harrier
  • Pied Harrier
  • Black Kite
  • Brahminy Kite
  • White-bellied Sea-Eagle
  • Gray-faced Buzzard
  • Common Buzzard
  • Long-legged Buzzard

Barn-Owls

  • Andaman Masked-Owl

Owls

  • Andaman Scops-Owl
  • Nicobar Scops-Owl
  • Oriental Scops-Owl
  • Andaman Boobook
  • Brown Boobook
  • Hume's Boobook

Hoopoes

  • Common Hoopoe

Hornbills

  • Narcondam Hornbill

Bee-eaters

  • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
  • Blue-tailed Bee-eater
  • Chestnut-headed Bee-eater

Kingfishers

  • Common Kingfisher
  • Blue-eared Kingfisher
  • Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher
  • Stork-billed Kingfisher
  • Ruddy Kingfisher
  • White-throated Kingfisher
  • Black-capped Kingfisher
  • Collared Kingfisher

Rollers

  • European Roller
  • Indochinese Roller
  • Dollarbird

Woodpeckers

  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • Freckle-breasted Woodpecker
  • Andaman Woodpecker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Amur Falcon
  • Eurasian Hobby
  • Oriental Hobby
  • Peregrine Falcon

Old World Parrots

  • Alexandrine Parakeet
  • Red-breasted Parakeet
  • Nicobar Parakeet
  • Long-tailed Parakeet
  • Budgerigar
  • Vernal Hanging-Parrot

Pittas

  • Blue-winged Pitta
  • Nicobar Hooded Pitta
  • Western Hooded Pitta

Cuckooshrikes

  • Small Minivet
  • Scarlet Minivet
  • Ashy Minivet
  • Brown-rumped Minivet
  • Oriental Cuckooshrike
  • Andaman Cuckooshrike
  • Pied Triller
  • Black-winged Cuckooshrike

Whistlers and Allies

  • Mangrove Whistler

Old World Orioles

  • Black-naped Oriole
  • Black-hooded Oriole

Woodswallows, Bellmagpies, and Allies

  • White-breasted Woodswallow

Drongos

  • Black Drongo
  • Ashy Drongo
  • Crow-billed Drongo
  • Andaman Drongo
  • Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Monarch Flycatchers

  • Black-naped Monarch
  • Amur Paradise-Flycatcher
  • Blyth's Paradise-Flycatcher
  • Indian Paradise-Flycatcher

Shrikes

  • Brown Shrike

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Andaman Treepie
  • House Crow
  • Large-billed Crow

Larks

  • Oriental Skylark
  • Mongolian Short-toed Lark

Cisticolas and Allies

  • Zitting Cisticola

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Thick-billed Warbler
  • Booted Warbler
  • Black-browed Reed Warbler
  • Oriental Reed Warbler
  • Clamorous Reed Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies

  • Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
  • Lanceolated Warbler

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Pacific Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Western House-Martin
  • Asian House-Martin
  • Eastern Red-rumped Swallow

Bulbuls

  • Nicobar Bulbul
  • Andaman Bulbul
  • Red-whiskered Bulbul

Leaf Warblers

  • Yellow-browed Warbler
  • Tickell's Leaf Warbler
  • Dusky Warbler
  • Willow Warbler
  • Green Warbler
  • Greenish Warbler
  • Two-barred Warbler
  • Large-billed Leaf Warbler
  • Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
  • Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
  • Arctic Warbler

Bush Warblers and Allies

  • Pale-footed Bush Warbler

White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies

  • Indian White-eye

Starlings

  • Asian Glossy Starling
  • Common Hill Myna
  • European Starling
  • Rosy Starling
  • Daurian Starling
  • Chestnut-cheeked Starling
  • White-shouldered Starling
  • White-headed Starling
  • Common Myna

Thrushes and Allies

  • Scaly Thrush
  • Siberian Thrush
  • Orange-headed Thrush
  • Chinese Blackbird
  • Eyebrowed Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

  • Gray-streaked Flycatcher
  • Dark-sided Flycatcher
  • Ferruginous Flycatcher
  • Asian Brown Flycatcher
  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • Oriental Magpie-Robin
  • Andaman Shama
  • Blue-and-white Flycatcher
  • Zappey's Flycatcher
  • Verditer Flycatcher
  • Blue-throated Flycatcher
  • Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher
  • Siberian Blue Robin
  • Bluethroat
  • Siberian Rubythroat
  • Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
  • Mugimaki Flycatcher
  • Taiga Flycatcher
  • Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
  • Blue Rock-Thrush
  • Siberian Stonechat
  • Amur Stonechat

Flowerpeckers

  • Andaman Flowerpecker

Sunbirds and Spiderhunters

  • Ornate Sunbird
  • Crimson Sunbird

Fairy-bluebirds

  • Asian Fairy-bluebird

Waxbills and Allies

  • Java Sparrow
  • Scaly-breasted Munia
  • White-rumped Munia

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Forest Wagtail
  • Gray Wagtail
  • Western Yellow Wagtail
  • Eastern Yellow Wagtail
  • Citrine Wagtail
  • White Wagtail
  • Richard's Pipit
  • Paddyfield Pipit
  • Blyth's Pipit
  • Red-throated Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Common Rosefinch

Old World Buntings

  • Black-headed Bunting
  • Chestnut-eared Bunting
  • Ortolan Bunting
  • Yellow-breasted Bunting
  • Little Bunting
  • Black-faced Bunting
  • Yellow-browed Bunting

Most common birds in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Ranked by how recently and how widely each was reported to eBird in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, and whether it is one of Andaman and Nicobar Islands’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
  2. Little EgretEgretta garzetta
  3. Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
  4. Rock PigeonColumba livia
  5. Eastern Cattle-EgretArdea coromanda
  6. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  7. Gray WagtailMotacilla cinerea
  8. Purple HeronArdea purpurea
  9. Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulva
  10. Tibetan Sand-PloverAnarhynchus atrifrons
  11. Medium EgretArdea intermedia
  12. House CrowCorvus splendens
  13. Great EgretArdea alba
  14. Common RedshankTringa totanus
  15. Eastern Yellow WagtailMotacilla tschutschensis
  16. Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
  17. Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata
  18. Common Hill MynaGracula religiosa
  19. Indian Pond-HeronArdeola grayii
  20. Plume-toed SwiftletCollocalia affinis

Largest bird families in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Among its regular birds.

  • Sandpipers and Allies24
  • Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns15
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers15
  • Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl12
  • Pigeons and Doves11
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites11
  • Plovers and Lapwings9
  • Starlings7

Reported in the last 30 days

158 species reported to eBird in Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

Plume-toed Swiftlet, White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Common Hill Myna, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Common Myna, Asian Glossy Starling, Crimson Sunbird, White-nest Swiftlet, Tibetan Sand-Plover, Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, Black-naped Monarch, Pacific Reef-Heron, Nicobar Imperial-Pigeon, Eurasian Whimbrel, Pied Imperial-Pigeon, Pacific Golden-Plover, Purple Heron, Gray Wagtail, Blyth's Paradise-Flycatcher, Crested Serpent-Eagle, Little Egret, Long-tailed Parakeet, Eurasian Curlew, Common Redshank, Medium Egret, Nicobar Parakeet, Common Kingfisher, Collared Kingfisher, Eastern Cattle-Egret, Brown Shrike, Andaman Cuckoo-Dove, Nicobar Hooded Pitta, Little Heron, Asian Koel, Barn Swallow, Black-naped Oriole, Andaman Green-Pigeon, Nicobar Megapode, Common Sandpiper, Asian Emerald Dove, …

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