Laos bird checklist

698 bird species in 89 families have been recorded in Laos, according to eBird; about 347 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.

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

The most common birds in Laos right now

  1. 1House Sparrow
  2. 2Scaly-breasted Munia
  3. 3Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  4. 4White-rumped Munia
  5. 5Black Drongo
  6. 6Red-whiskered Bulbul
  7. 7Chinese Pond-Heron
  8. 8Asian Palm Swift
  9. 9Eastern Cattle-Egret
  10. 10Brown Shrike
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Laos bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Lesser Whistling-Duck
  • Knob-billed Duck
  • Ruddy Shelduck
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Cotton Pygmy-Goose
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Garganey
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • Indian Spot-billed Duck
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Ferruginous Duck
  • Tufted Duck

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Rufous-throated Partridge
  • Bar-backed Partridge
  • Silver Pheasant
  • Siamese Fireback
  • Vietnamese Crested Argus
  • Green Peafowl
  • Scaly-breasted Partridge
  • Gray Peacock-Pheasant
  • Mountain Bamboo-Partridge
  • Red Junglefowl
  • Chinese Francolin
  • Blue-breasted Quail
  • Japanese Quail

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Ashy Wood-Pigeon
  • Oriental Turtle-Dove
  • Red Collared-Dove
  • Spotted Dove
  • Barred Cuckoo-Dove
  • Little Cuckoo-Dove
  • Asian Emerald Dove
  • Zebra Dove
  • Orange-breasted Green-Pigeon
  • Ashy-headed Green-Pigeon
  • Thick-billed Green-Pigeon
  • Yellow-footed Green-Pigeon
  • Yellow-vented Green-Pigeon
  • Pin-tailed Green-Pigeon
  • Wedge-tailed Green-Pigeon
  • White-bellied Green-Pigeon
  • Green Imperial-Pigeon
  • Mountain Imperial-Pigeon

Cuckoos

  • Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo
  • Greater Coucal
  • Lesser Coucal
  • Green-billed Malkoha
  • Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
  • Pied Cuckoo
  • Asian Koel
  • Asian Emerald Cuckoo
  • Violet Cuckoo
  • Banded Bay Cuckoo
  • Plaintive Cuckoo
  • Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
  • Large Hawk-Cuckoo
  • Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo
  • Lesser Cuckoo
  • Indian Cuckoo
  • Himalayan Cuckoo
  • Common Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Great Eared-Nightjar
  • Gray Nightjar
  • Large-tailed Nightjar
  • Savanna Nightjar

Frogmouths

  • Hodgson's Frogmouth
  • Blyth's Frogmouth

Swifts

  • White-throated Needletail
  • Silver-backed Needletail
  • Brown-backed Needletail
  • Himalayan Swiftlet
  • White-nest Swiftlet
  • Pacific Swift
  • Cook's Swift
  • House Swift
  • Asian Palm Swift

Treeswifts

  • Crested Treeswift

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Brown-cheeked Rail
  • Slaty-breasted Rail
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Gray-headed Swamphen
  • White-browed Crake
  • Watercock
  • White-breasted Waterhen
  • Slaty-legged Crake
  • Ruddy-breasted Crake
  • Black-tailed Crake

Finfoots

  • Masked Finfoot

Thick-knees

  • Great Thick-knee
  • Indian Thick-knee

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Long-billed Plover
  • Northern Lapwing
  • River Lapwing
  • Gray-headed Lapwing
  • Red-wattled Lapwing
  • Oriental Plover
  • Tibetan Sand-Plover
  • Greater Sand-Plover
  • Kentish Plover

Painted-Snipes

  • Greater Painted-Snipe

Jacanas

  • Pheasant-tailed Jacana
  • Bronze-winged Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Eurasian Whimbrel
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Eurasian Woodcock
  • Pin-tailed Snipe
  • Common Snipe
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper
  • Common Redshank
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Common Greenshank
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Temminck's Stint
  • Long-toed Stint
  • Red-necked Stint
  • Dunlin

Buttonquail

  • Yellow-legged Buttonquail
  • Barred Buttonquail
  • Small Buttonquail

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Small Pratincole
  • Oriental Pratincole

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Brown-headed Gull
  • Pallas's Gull
  • Mongolian Gull
  • Little Tern
  • Caspian Tern
  • Whiskered Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • River Tern

Grebes

  • Little Grebe

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Streaked Shearwater

Storks

  • Asian Openbill
  • Black Stork
  • Asian Woolly-necked Stork
  • Lesser Adjutant
  • Painted Stork

Frigatebirds

  • Lesser Frigatebird

Anhingas

  • Oriental Darter

Cormorants and Shags

  • Little Cormorant
  • Great Cormorant
  • Indian Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Glossy Ibis
  • White-shouldered Ibis
  • Giant Ibis

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Eurasian Bittern
  • Black Bittern
  • Cinnamon Bittern
  • Schrenck's Bittern
  • Yellow Bittern
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Malayan Night Heron
  • Little Egret
  • Little Heron
  • Chinese Pond-Heron
  • Javan Pond-Heron
  • Eastern Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Medium Egret
  • Gray Heron
  • Purple Heron

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Black-winged Kite
  • Jerdon's Baza
  • Black Baza
  • Oriental Honey-buzzard
  • Red-headed Vulture
  • White-rumped Vulture
  • Crested Serpent-Eagle
  • Mountain Hawk-Eagle
  • Changeable Hawk-Eagle
  • Rufous-bellied Eagle
  • Black Eagle
  • Greater Spotted Eagle
  • Imperial Eagle
  • Crested Goshawk
  • Besra
  • Japanese Sparrowhawk
  • Shikra
  • Chinese Sparrowhawk
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  • Eastern Marsh Harrier
  • Hen Harrier
  • Pied Harrier
  • Black Kite
  • Brahminy Kite
  • White-bellied Sea-Eagle
  • Lesser Fish-Eagle
  • Gray-headed Fish-Eagle
  • Rufous-winged Buzzard
  • Gray-faced Buzzard
  • Eastern Buzzard

Barn-Owls

  • Eastern Barn Owl
  • Oriental Bay-Owl

Owls

  • Mountain Scops-Owl
  • Collared Scops-Owl
  • Oriental Scops-Owl
  • Brown Fish-Owl
  • Tawny Fish-Owl
  • Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl
  • Asian Barred Owlet
  • Collared Owlet
  • Spotted Owlet
  • Brown Wood-Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Brown Boobook

Trogons

  • Orange-breasted Trogon
  • Red-headed Trogon

Hoopoes

  • Common Hoopoe

Hornbills

  • Great Hornbill
  • Brown Hornbill
  • Oriental Pied-Hornbill
  • Rufous-necked Hornbill
  • Wreathed Hornbill

Bee-eaters

  • Blue-bearded Bee-eater
  • Asian Green Bee-eater
  • Blue-throated Bee-eater
  • Blue-tailed Bee-eater
  • Chestnut-headed Bee-eater

Kingfishers

  • Blyth's Kingfisher
  • Common Kingfisher
  • Blue-eared Kingfisher
  • Black-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher
  • Banded Kingfisher
  • Stork-billed Kingfisher
  • Ruddy Kingfisher
  • White-throated Kingfisher
  • Black-capped Kingfisher
  • Collared Kingfisher
  • Crested Kingfisher
  • Pied Kingfisher

Rollers

  • Indochinese Roller
  • Dollarbird

Asian Barbets

  • Coppersmith Barbet
  • Blue-eared Barbet
  • Great Barbet
  • Red-vented Barbet
  • Green-eared Barbet
  • Lineated Barbet
  • Golden-throated Barbet
  • Necklaced Barbet
  • Moustached Barbet
  • Blue-throated Barbet
  • Indochinese Barbet

Woodpeckers

  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • Speckled Piculet
  • White-browed Piculet
  • Heart-spotted Woodpecker
  • Gray-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
  • Freckle-breasted Woodpecker
  • Stripe-breasted Woodpecker
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • Necklaced Woodpecker
  • Bay Woodpecker
  • Greater Flameback
  • Rufous Woodpecker
  • Black-and-buff Woodpecker
  • Pale-headed Woodpecker
  • Common Flameback
  • Lesser Yellownape
  • Red-collared Woodpecker
  • Laced Woodpecker
  • Gray-headed Woodpecker
  • Black-headed Woodpecker
  • Greater Yellownape
  • Great Slaty Woodpecker
  • White-bellied Woodpecker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Pied Falconet
  • Collared Falconet
  • White-rumped Falcon
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Amur Falcon
  • Eurasian Hobby
  • Oriental Hobby
  • Peregrine Falcon

Old World Parrots

  • Alexandrine Parakeet
  • Gray-headed Parakeet
  • Blossom-headed Parakeet
  • Red-breasted Parakeet
  • Vernal Hanging-Parrot

Asian and Grauer's Broadbills

  • Long-tailed Broadbill
  • Dusky Broadbill
  • Silver-breasted Broadbill
  • Black-and-red Broadbill
  • Banded Broadbill

Pittas

  • Eared Pitta
  • Rusty-naped Pitta
  • Blue-naped Pitta
  • Blue-rumped Pitta
  • Blue Pitta
  • Bar-bellied Pitta
  • Blue-winged Pitta
  • Fairy Pitta
  • Western Hooded Pitta

Thornbills and Allies

  • Golden-bellied Gerygone

Cuckooshrikes

  • Small Minivet
  • Gray-chinned Minivet
  • Short-billed Minivet
  • Long-tailed Minivet
  • Scarlet Minivet
  • Ashy Minivet
  • Brown-rumped Minivet
  • Rosy Minivet
  • Oriental Cuckooshrike
  • Black-winged Cuckooshrike
  • Indochinese Cuckooshrike

Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis

  • White-browed Shrike-Babbler
  • Black-eared Shrike-Babbler
  • Clicking Shrike-Babbler
  • White-bellied Erpornis

Old World Orioles

  • Black-naped Oriole
  • Slender-billed Oriole
  • Black-hooded Oriole
  • Maroon Oriole

Woodswallows, Bellmagpies, and Allies

  • Ashy Woodswallow

Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies

  • Large Woodshrike
  • Common Woodshrike
  • Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike

Ioras

  • Common Iora
  • Great Iora

Fantails

  • Malaysian Pied-Fantail
  • White-throated Fantail
  • White-browed Fantail

Drongos

  • Black Drongo
  • Ashy Drongo
  • Crow-billed Drongo
  • Bronzed Drongo
  • Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo
  • Hair-crested Drongo
  • Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Monarch Flycatchers

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

Shrikes

  • Tiger Shrike
  • Brown Shrike
  • Burmese Shrike
  • Long-tailed Shrike
  • Gray-backed Shrike

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Eurasian Jay
  • Red-billed Blue-Magpie
  • White-winged Magpie
  • Common Green-Magpie
  • Indochinese Green-Magpie
  • Rufous Treepie
  • Gray Treepie
  • Racket-tailed Treepie
  • Ratchet-tailed Treepie
  • Large-billed Crow

Fairy Flycatchers

  • Yellow-bellied Fairy-Fantail
  • Gray-headed Canary-Flycatcher

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Fire-capped Tit
  • Yellow-browed Tit
  • Sultan Tit
  • Green-backed Tit
  • Asian Tit
  • Yellow-cheeked Tit

Larks

  • Indochinese Bushlark
  • Singing Bushlark
  • Oriental Skylark

Cisticolas and Allies

  • Common Tailorbird
  • Dark-necked Tailorbird
  • Hill Prinia
  • Rufescent Prinia
  • Gray-breasted Prinia
  • Yellow-bellied Prinia
  • Plain Prinia
  • Zitting Cisticola
  • Golden-headed Cisticola

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Thick-billed Warbler
  • Booted Warbler
  • Black-browed Reed Warbler
  • Blunt-winged Warbler
  • Manchurian Reed Warbler
  • Oriental Reed Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies

  • Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
  • Lanceolated Warbler
  • Brown Bush Warbler
  • Baikal Bush Warbler
  • Russet Bush Warbler
  • Striated Grassbird

Cupwings

  • Pygmy Cupwing

Swallows

  • Gray-throated Martin
  • Bank Swallow
  • Dusky Crag-Martin
  • Barn Swallow
  • Wire-tailed Swallow
  • Siberian House-Martin
  • Asian House-Martin
  • Nepal House-Martin
  • Eastern Red-rumped Swallow

Bulbuls

  • Puff-throated Bulbul
  • Striated Bulbul
  • Gray-eyed Bulbul
  • Ashy Bulbul
  • Chestnut Bulbul
  • Mountain Bulbul
  • White-headed Bulbul
  • Black Bulbul
  • Black-headed Bulbul
  • Black-crested Bulbul
  • Bare-faced Bulbul
  • Crested Finchbill
  • Streak-eared Bulbul
  • Stripe-throated Bulbul
  • Flavescent Bulbul
  • Brown-breasted Bulbul
  • Red-whiskered Bulbul
  • Yellow-vented Bulbul
  • Sooty-headed Bulbul

Leaf Warblers

  • Ashy-throated Warbler
  • Buff-barred Warbler
  • Yellow-browed Warbler
  • Hume's Warbler
  • Chinese Leaf Warbler
  • Pallas's Leaf Warbler
  • Gansu Leaf Warbler
  • Radde's Warbler
  • Yellow-streaked Warbler
  • Dusky Warbler
  • Buff-throated Warbler
  • Eastern Crowned Warbler
  • White-spectacled Warbler
  • Gray-cheeked Warbler
  • Gray-crowned Warbler
  • Bianchi's Warbler
  • Martens's Warbler
  • Alström's Warbler
  • Greenish Warbler
  • Two-barred Warbler
  • Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
  • Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
  • Arctic Warbler
  • Chestnut-crowned Warbler
  • Limestone Leaf Warbler
  • Yellow-vented Warbler
  • Sulphur-breasted Warbler
  • Blyth's Leaf Warbler
  • Claudia's Leaf Warbler
  • Hartert's Leaf Warbler
  • Davison's Leaf Warbler
  • Kloss's Leaf Warbler

Bush Warblers and Allies

  • Pale-footed Bush Warbler
  • Asian Stubtail
  • Gray-bellied Tesia
  • Slaty-bellied Tesia
  • Chestnut-headed Tesia
  • Yellow-bellied Warbler
  • Rufous-faced Warbler
  • Black-faced Warbler
  • Mountain Tailorbird
  • Manchurian Bush Warbler
  • Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler
  • Aberrant Bush Warbler

Long-tailed Tits

  • Black-throated Tit

Parrotbills

  • Yellow-eyed Babbler
  • Indochinese Fulvetta
  • Spot-breasted Parrotbill
  • Gray-headed Parrotbill
  • Rufous-headed Parrotbill
  • Short-tailed Parrotbill
  • Black-throated Parrotbill
  • Golden Parrotbill
  • Pale-billed Parrotbill

White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies

  • Indochinese Yuhina
  • Black-chinned Yuhina
  • Whiskered Yuhina
  • Stripe-throated Yuhina
  • Chestnut-flanked White-eye
  • Swinhoe's White-eye
  • Indian White-eye

Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers, and Allies

  • Chestnut-capped Babbler
  • Gray-faced Tit-Babbler
  • Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
  • Golden Babbler
  • Rufous-fronted Babbler
  • Rufous-capped Babbler
  • Gray-bellied Wren-Babbler
  • Brown-crowned Scimitar-Babbler
  • Red-billed Scimitar-Babbler
  • Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler
  • White-browed Scimitar-Babbler
  • Large Scimitar-Babbler
  • Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler
  • Gray-throated Babbler
  • Sooty Babbler
  • Spot-necked Babbler

Ground Babblers and Allies

  • Scaly-crowned Babbler
  • Collared Babbler
  • Yellow-throated Fulvetta
  • Rufous-winged Fulvetta
  • Rufous-throated Fulvetta
  • Rusty-capped Fulvetta
  • Puff-throated Babbler
  • Spot-throated Babbler
  • Buff-breasted Babbler
  • Abbott's Babbler
  • Streaked Wren-Babbler
  • Annam Limestone Babbler
  • Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler
  • Short-tailed Scimitar-Babbler

Laughingthrushes and Allies

  • Brown-cheeked Fulvetta
  • Black-browed Fulvetta
  • Yunnan Fulvetta
  • Mountain Fulvetta
  • Himalayan Cutia
  • Vietnamese Cutia
  • Red-tailed Laughingthrush
  • Silver-eared Laughingthrush
  • Long-tailed Sibia
  • Black-backed Sibia
  • Black-headed Sibia
  • Blue-winged Minla
  • Chestnut-tailed Minla
  • Spectacled Barwing
  • Black-crowned Barwing
  • Silver-eared Mesia
  • Red-tailed Minla
  • Rufous-backed Sibia
  • Scarlet-faced Liocichla
  • Spot-breasted Laughingthrush
  • Chinese Hwamei
  • Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush
  • White-crested Laughingthrush
  • Black-hooded Laughingthrush
  • White-necked Laughingthrush
  • Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush
  • Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush
  • White-cheeked Laughingthrush
  • Black-throated Laughingthrush
  • White-browed Laughingthrush
  • Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush

Nuthatches

  • Beautiful Nuthatch
  • Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
  • Yellow-billed Nuthatch
  • White-tailed Nuthatch
  • Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch
  • Burmese Nuthatch
  • Chestnut-vented Nuthatch

Treecreepers

  • Hume's Treecreeper

Spotted Elachura

  • Spotted Elachura

Dippers

  • Brown Dipper

Starlings

  • Golden-crested Myna
  • Common Hill Myna
  • European Starling
  • Daurian Starling
  • Chestnut-cheeked Starling
  • Black-collared Starling
  • Siamese Pied Starling
  • White-shouldered Starling
  • Chestnut-tailed Starling
  • Red-billed Starling
  • White-cheeked Starling
  • Common Myna
  • Vinous-breasted Myna
  • Great Myna
  • Crested Myna

Thrushes and Allies

  • Long-tailed Thrush
  • Dark-sided Thrush
  • White's Thrush
  • Scaly Thrush
  • Purple Cochoa
  • Green Cochoa
  • Siberian Thrush
  • Orange-headed Thrush
  • Chinese Blackbird
  • Gray-winged Blackbird
  • Black-breasted Thrush
  • Japanese Thrush
  • Eyebrowed Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

  • Dark-sided Flycatcher
  • Ferruginous Flycatcher
  • Asian Brown Flycatcher
  • Brown-breasted Flycatcher
  • Oriental Magpie-Robin
  • White-rumped Shama
  • White-tailed Flycatcher
  • Large Niltava
  • Small Niltava
  • Fujian Niltava
  • Rufous-bellied Niltava
  • Chinese Vivid Niltava
  • Blue-and-white Flycatcher
  • Zappey's Flycatcher
  • Verditer Flycatcher
  • White-gorgeted Flycatcher
  • Hainan Blue Flycatcher
  • Pale Blue Flycatcher
  • Chinese Blue Flycatcher
  • Hill Blue Flycatcher
  • Indochinese Blue Flycatcher
  • Lesser Shortwing
  • Himalayan Shortwing
  • Rufous-tailed Robin
  • Siberian Blue Robin
  • White-bellied Redstart
  • Bluethroat
  • Blue Whistling-Thrush
  • White-crowned Forktail
  • Slaty-backed Forktail
  • Siberian Rubythroat
  • White-tailed Robin
  • Red-flanked Bluetail
  • Himalayan Bluetail
  • Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
  • Green-backed Flycatcher
  • Narcissus Flycatcher
  • Mugimaki Flycatcher
  • Slaty-backed Flycatcher
  • Slaty-blue Flycatcher
  • Snowy-browed Flycatcher
  • Pygmy Flycatcher
  • Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher
  • Sapphire Flycatcher
  • Little Pied Flycatcher
  • Taiga Flycatcher
  • Blue-fronted Redstart
  • Plumbeous Redstart
  • White-capped Redstart
  • Daurian Redstart
  • Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush
  • White-throated Rock-Thrush
  • Blue Rock-Thrush
  • Siberian Stonechat
  • Amur Stonechat
  • Pied Bushchat
  • Jerdon's Bushchat
  • Gray Bushchat

Flowerpeckers

  • Thick-billed Flowerpecker
  • Yellow-vented Flowerpecker
  • Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker
  • Plain Flowerpecker
  • Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
  • Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker

Sunbirds and Spiderhunters

  • Ruby-cheeked Sunbird
  • Brown-throated Sunbird
  • Van Hasselt's Sunbird
  • Purple Sunbird
  • Ornate Sunbird
  • Black-throated Sunbird
  • Mrs. Gould's Sunbird
  • Green-tailed Sunbird
  • Crimson Sunbird
  • Fork-tailed Sunbird
  • Purple-naped Spiderhunter
  • Little Spiderhunter
  • Streaked Spiderhunter

Fairy-bluebirds

  • Asian Fairy-bluebird

Leafbirds

  • Blue-winged Leafbird
  • Golden-fronted Leafbird
  • Orange-bellied Leafbird

Weavers and Allies

  • Streaked Weaver
  • Baya Weaver
  • Asian Golden Weaver

Waxbills and Allies

  • Scaly-breasted Munia
  • White-rumped Munia
  • Chestnut Munia
  • Pin-tailed Parrotfinch
  • Red Avadavat

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow
  • Russet Sparrow
  • Plain-backed Sparrow
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Forest Wagtail
  • Gray Wagtail
  • Eastern Yellow Wagtail
  • Citrine Wagtail
  • Mekong Wagtail
  • White Wagtail
  • Richard's Pipit
  • Paddyfield Pipit
  • Blyth's Pipit
  • Rosy Pipit
  • Olive-backed Pipit
  • Red-throated Pipit
  • Water Pipit
  • Siberian Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Spot-winged Grosbeak
  • Common Rosefinch
  • Scarlet Finch
  • Black-headed Greenfinch

Old World Buntings

  • Crested Bunting
  • Chestnut-eared Bunting
  • Yellow-breasted Bunting
  • Little Bunting
  • Black-faced Bunting
  • Chestnut Bunting

Most common birds in Laos

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 Laos’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  2. Scaly-breasted MuniaLonchura punctulata
  3. Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
  4. White-rumped MuniaLonchura striata
  5. Black DrongoDicrurus macrocercus
  6. Red-whiskered BulbulPycnonotus jocosus
  7. Chinese Pond-HeronArdeola bacchus
  8. Asian Palm SwiftCypsiurus balasiensis
  9. Eastern Cattle-EgretArdea coromanda
  10. Brown ShrikeLanius cristatus
  11. Red Collared-DoveStreptopelia tranquebarica
  12. Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus
  13. Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
  14. Zebra DoveGeopelia striata
  15. Lesser Whistling-DuckDendrocygna javanica
  16. Little EgretEgretta garzetta
  17. Common TailorbirdOrthotomus sutorius
  18. Rock PigeonColumba livia
  19. Amur StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
  20. Plain PriniaPrinia inornata

Largest bird families in Laos

Among its regular birds.

  • Old World Flycatchers19
  • Bulbuls17
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites14
  • Laughingthrushes and Allies14
  • Pigeons and Doves11
  • Ground Babblers and Allies11
  • Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns10
  • Leaf Warblers10

Reported in the last 30 days

183 species reported to eBird in Laos in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

White-nest Swiftlet, House Sparrow, Scaly-breasted Munia, Amur Stonechat, Zebra Dove, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Brown Shrike, Asian Palm Swift, Chinese Pond-Heron, Common Tailorbird, White-rumped Munia, Plain Prinia, Oriental Magpie-Robin, Yellow-browed Warbler, Black Drongo, Hainan Blue Flycatcher, Ruby-cheeked Sunbird, Red-whiskered Bulbul, Black-naped Monarch, Hill Blue Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker, Asian Barred Owlet, Pin-striped Tit-Babbler, Two-barred Warbler, Red Collared-Dove, Dusky Warbler, Lesser Whistling-Duck, Large-billed Crow, Black-winged Kite, Eastern Cattle-Egret, Pied Bushchat, Malaysian Pied-Fantail, Barred Buttonquail, Yellow-bellied Prinia, Asian Openbill, Red-throated Pipit, Greater Coucal, Streaked Weaver, Common Snipe, …