Philippines bird checklist

746 bird species in 91 families have been recorded in the Philippines, according to eBird; about 483 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 the Philippines right now

  1. 1Barn Swallow
  2. 2Black-crowned Night Heron
  3. 3Pacific Golden-Plover
  4. 4Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  5. 5Whiskered Tern
  6. 6Great Egret
  7. 7Kentish Plover
  8. 8Eastern Cattle-Egret
  9. 9Little Egret
  10. 10Black-winged Stilt
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Philippines bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Wandering Whistling-Duck
  • Bar-headed Goose
  • Graylag Goose
  • Swan Goose
  • Greater White-fronted Goose
  • Lesser White-fronted Goose
  • Taiga Bean-Goose
  • Tundra Bean-Goose
  • Brant
  • Tundra Swan
  • Ruddy Shelduck
  • Common Shelduck
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Cotton Pygmy-Goose
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Baikal Teal
  • Garganey
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Gadwall
  • Falcated Duck
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • Philippine Duck
  • Eastern Spot-billed Duck
  • Mallard
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Common Pochard
  • Ferruginous Duck
  • Baer's Pochard
  • Tufted Duck
  • Greater Scaup
  • Stejneger's Scoter

Megapodes

  • Philippine Megapode

Guineafowl

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Indian Peafowl
  • Palawan Peacock-Pheasant
  • Red Junglefowl
  • Chinese Francolin
  • Blue-breasted Quail

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Metallic Pigeon
  • Oriental Turtle-Dove
  • Philippine Collared-Dove
  • Red Collared-Dove
  • Spotted Dove
  • Philippine Cuckoo-Dove
  • Asian Emerald Dove
  • Zebra Dove
  • Nicobar Pigeon
  • Mindoro Bleeding-heart
  • Negros Bleeding-heart
  • Luzon Bleeding-heart
  • Mindanao Bleeding-heart
  • White-eared Brown-Dove
  • Amethyst Brown-Dove
  • Mindanao Brown-Dove
  • Tawitawi Brown-Dove
  • Pink-necked Green-Pigeon
  • Philippine Green-Pigeon
  • Thick-billed Green-Pigeon
  • Whistling Green-Pigeon
  • Flame-breasted Fruit-Dove
  • Cream-breasted Fruit-Dove
  • Yellow-breasted Fruit-Dove
  • Black-chinned Fruit-Dove
  • Black-naped Fruit-Dove
  • Pink-bellied Imperial-Pigeon
  • Mindoro Imperial-Pigeon
  • Spotted Imperial-Pigeon
  • Green Imperial-Pigeon
  • Elegant Imperial-Pigeon
  • Gray Imperial-Pigeon
  • Pied Imperial-Pigeon

Cuckoos

  • Rufous Coucal
  • Black-faced Coucal
  • Black-hooded Coucal
  • Greater Coucal
  • Philippine Coucal
  • Lesser Coucal
  • Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
  • Red-crested Malkoha
  • Scale-feathered Malkoha
  • Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
  • Pied Cuckoo
  • Asian Koel
  • Channel-billed Cuckoo
  • Violet Cuckoo
  • Little Bronze-Cuckoo
  • Banded Bay Cuckoo
  • Plaintive Cuckoo
  • Sunda Brush Cuckoo
  • Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo
  • Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
  • Large Hawk-Cuckoo
  • Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo
  • Indian Cuckoo
  • Himalayan Cuckoo
  • Oriental Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Great Eared-Nightjar
  • Gray Nightjar
  • Large-tailed Nightjar
  • Philippine Nightjar
  • Chirruping Nightjar

Frogmouths

  • Philippine Frogmouth
  • Palawan Frogmouth

Swifts

  • Philippine Spinetail
  • White-throated Needletail
  • Brown-backed Needletail
  • Purple Needletail
  • Pygmy Swiftlet
  • Gray-rumped Swiftlet
  • Ridgetop Swiftlet
  • Philippine Swiftlet
  • Whitehead's Swiftlet
  • Ameline Swiftlet
  • White-nest Swiftlet
  • Pacific Swift
  • House Swift
  • Asian Palm Swift

Treeswifts

  • Gray-rumped Treeswift
  • Whiskered Treeswift

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Slaty-breasted Rail
  • Luzon Rail
  • Calayan Rail
  • Buff-banded Rail
  • Barred Rail
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Black-backed Swamphen
  • Philippine Swamphen
  • White-browed Crake
  • Watercock
  • Plain Bush-hen
  • White-breasted Waterhen
  • Red-legged Crake
  • Slaty-legged Crake
  • Ruddy-breasted Crake
  • Baillon's Crake
  • Spotless Crake

Cranes

  • Demoiselle Crane
  • Hooded Crane

Thick-knees

  • Beach Thick-knee

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Pied Stilt
  • Pied Avocet

Oystercatchers

  • Eurasian Oystercatcher

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Long-billed Plover
  • Northern Lapwing
  • Gray-headed Lapwing
  • Oriental Plover
  • Siberian Sand-Plover
  • Tibetan Sand-Plover
  • Greater Sand-Plover
  • Malaysian Plover
  • Kentish Plover

Painted-Snipes

  • Greater Painted-Snipe

Jacanas

  • Pheasant-tailed Jacana
  • Comb-crested Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Eurasian Whimbrel
  • Little Curlew
  • Far Eastern Curlew
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Asian Dowitcher
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • Bukidnon Woodcock
  • Swinhoe's Snipe
  • Common Snipe
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Terek Sandpiper
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Gray-tailed Tattler
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper
  • Common Redshank
  • Nordmann's Greenshank
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Common Greenshank
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Great Knot
  • Red Knot
  • Ruff
  • Broad-billed Sandpiper
  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Temminck's Stint
  • Long-toed Stint
  • Red-necked Stint
  • Spoon-billed Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • Dunlin
  • Little Stint
  • Pectoral Sandpiper

Buttonquail

  • Barred Buttonquail
  • Spotted Buttonquail
  • Small Buttonquail
  • Luzon Buttonquail

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Oriental Pratincole

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Long-tailed Jaeger
  • Pomarine Jaeger

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Little Gull
  • Saunders's Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Black-tailed Gull
  • Common Gull
  • Vega Gull
  • Mongolian Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Slaty-backed Gull
  • Blue-billed White-Tern
  • Brown Noddy
  • Black Noddy
  • Aleutian Tern
  • Sooty Tern
  • Bridled Tern
  • Little Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Caspian Tern
  • Whiskered Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Black-naped Tern
  • Roseate Tern
  • Great Crested Tern
  • Chinese Crested Tern

Grebes

  • Little Grebe
  • Great Crested Grebe
  • Eared Grebe

Tropicbirds

  • White-tailed Tropicbird
  • Red-tailed Tropicbird

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Kermadec Petrel
  • Bulwer's Petrel
  • Tahiti Petrel
  • Streaked Shearwater
  • Wedge-tailed Shearwater
  • Short-tailed Shearwater

Storks

  • Asian Woolly-necked Stork
  • Lesser Adjutant

Frigatebirds

  • Lesser Frigatebird
  • Great Frigatebird
  • Christmas Island Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Red-footed Booby
  • Brown Booby
  • Cocos Booby
  • Masked Booby
  • Nazca Booby

Anhingas

  • Oriental Darter

Cormorants and Shags

  • Great Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Glossy Ibis
  • Eurasian Spoonbill
  • Black-faced Spoonbill

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

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

Pelicans

  • Australian Pelican
  • Dalmatian Pelican

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Black-winged Kite
  • Jerdon's Baza
  • Oriental Honey-buzzard
  • Philippine Honey-buzzard
  • Crested Serpent-Eagle
  • Philippine Serpent-Eagle
  • Philippine Eagle
  • Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle
  • Philippine Hawk-Eagle
  • Changeable Hawk-Eagle
  • Rufous-bellied Eagle
  • Crested Goshawk
  • Besra
  • Japanese Sparrowhawk
  • Shikra
  • Chinese Sparrowhawk
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  • Eurasian Goshawk
  • Eastern Marsh Harrier
  • Pied Harrier
  • Black Kite
  • Brahminy Kite
  • White-bellied Sea-Eagle
  • Gray-headed Fish-Eagle
  • Gray-faced Buzzard
  • Eastern Buzzard

Barn-Owls

  • Australasian Grass-Owl

Owls

  • Giant Scops-Owl
  • Palawan Scops-Owl
  • Philippine Scops-Owl
  • Everett's Scops-Owl
  • Negros Scops-Owl
  • Mindoro Scops-Owl
  • Mantanani Scops-Owl
  • Ryukyu Scops-Owl
  • Mindanao Scops-Owl
  • Luzon Scops-Owl
  • Philippine Eagle-Owl
  • Spotted Wood-Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Brown Boobook
  • Northern Boobook
  • Chocolate Boobook
  • Luzon Boobook
  • Mindanao Boobook
  • Mindoro Boobook
  • Romblon Boobook
  • Cebu Boobook
  • Camiguin Boobook
  • Sulu Boobook

Trogons

  • Philippine Trogon

Hoopoes

  • Common Hoopoe

Hornbills

  • Rufous Hornbill
  • Sulu Hornbill
  • Palawan Hornbill
  • Writhe-billed Hornbill
  • Writhed Hornbill
  • Visayan Hornbill
  • Luzon Hornbill
  • Mindoro Hornbill
  • Samar Hornbill
  • Mindanao Hornbill

Bee-eaters

  • Rufous-crowned Bee-eater
  • Blue-tailed Bee-eater
  • Rainbow Bee-eater

Kingfishers

  • Common Kingfisher
  • Blue-eared Kingfisher
  • Indigo-banded Kingfisher
  • Northern Silvery-Kingfisher
  • Southern Silvery-Kingfisher
  • Rufous-backed Dwarf-Kingfisher
  • Philippine Dwarf-Kingfisher
  • Dimorphic Dwarf-Kingfisher
  • Stork-billed Kingfisher
  • Ruddy Kingfisher
  • Brown-breasted Kingfisher
  • Black-capped Kingfisher
  • Rufous-lored Kingfisher
  • Sacred Kingfisher
  • Collared Kingfisher
  • Spotted Kingfisher
  • Blue-capped Kingfisher

Rollers

  • Dollarbird

Asian Barbets

  • Coppersmith Barbet

Woodpeckers

  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker
  • Sulu Pygmy Woodpecker
  • Luzon Flameback
  • Yellow-faced Flameback
  • Buff-spotted Flameback
  • Red-headed Flameback
  • Spot-throated Flameback
  • Northern Sooty-Woodpecker
  • Southern Sooty-Woodpecker
  • Great Slaty Woodpecker
  • White-bellied Woodpecker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Philippine Falconet
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Spotted Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Eurasian Hobby
  • Oriental Hobby
  • Peregrine Falcon

Cockatoos

  • Cockatiel
  • Palm Cockatoo
  • Philippine Cockatoo
  • Tanimbar Corella
  • White Cockatoo
  • Salmon-crested Cockatoo
  • Yellow-crested Cockatoo
  • Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Old World Parrots

  • Mindanao Racquet-tail
  • Luzon Racquet-tail
  • Blue-headed Racquet-tail
  • Mindoro Racquet-tail
  • Blue-winged Racquet-tail
  • Green Racquet-tail
  • Blue-crowned Racquet-tail
  • Rose-ringed Parakeet
  • Blue-naped Parrot
  • Blue-backed Parrot
  • Crimson Rosella
  • Large Fig-Parrot
  • Guaiabero
  • Budgerigar
  • Mindanao Lorikeet
  • Red-and-blue Lory
  • Philippine Hanging-Parrot
  • Camiguin Hanging-Parrot
  • Black-billed Hanging-Parrot
  • Gray-headed Lovebird
  • Rosy-faced Lovebird
  • Fischer's Lovebird
  • Yellow-collared Lovebird

New World and African Parrots

  • Gray Parrot
  • Blue-and-yellow Macaw

Asian and Grauer's Broadbills

  • Visayan Broadbill
  • Wattled Broadbill

Pittas

  • Whiskered Pitta
  • Philippine Pitta
  • Blue-winged Pitta
  • Western Hooded Pitta
  • Azure-breasted Pitta

Thornbills and Allies

  • Golden-bellied Gerygone

Cuckooshrikes

  • Fiery Minivet
  • Scarlet Minivet
  • Ashy Minivet
  • Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike
  • Mindoro Cuckooshrike
  • Visayan Cuckooshrike
  • Mindanao Cuckooshrike
  • Sulu Cuckooshrike
  • McGregor's Cuckooshrike
  • Black-and-white Triller
  • Pied Triller
  • Black-winged Cuckooshrike
  • Blackish Cuckooshrike
  • White-winged Cuckooshrike
  • Black-bibbed Cicadabird

Whistlers and Allies

  • Yellow-bellied Whistler
  • Mangrove Whistler
  • Green-backed Whistler
  • White-vented Whistler

Old World Orioles

  • Ventriloquial Oriole
  • White-lored Oriole
  • Philippine Oriole
  • Isabela Oriole
  • Black-naped Oriole

Woodswallows, Bellmagpies, and Allies

  • White-breasted Woodswallow

Ioras

  • Common Iora

Fantails

  • Black-and-cinnamon Fantail
  • Mindanao Blue-Fantail
  • Visayan Blue-Fantail
  • Tablas Fantail
  • Visayan Fantail
  • Blue-headed Fantail
  • Philippine Pied-Fantail

Drongos

  • Black Drongo
  • Ashy Drongo
  • Hair-crested Drongo
  • Short-tailed Drongo
  • Palawan Drongo
  • Balicassiao
  • Tablas Drongo

Monarch Flycatchers

  • Short-crested Monarch
  • Black-naped Monarch
  • Celestial Monarch
  • Blue Paradise-Flycatcher
  • Rufous Paradise-Flycatcher
  • Black Paradise-Flycatcher
  • Amur Paradise-Flycatcher

Shrikes

  • Tiger Shrike
  • Red-backed Shrike
  • Brown Shrike
  • Long-tailed Shrike
  • Mountain Shrike

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Sierra Madre Crow
  • Samar Crow
  • Palawan Crow
  • Rook
  • Philippine Jungle Crow

Fairy Flycatchers

  • Citrine Canary-Flycatcher

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Elegant Tit
  • Palawan Tit
  • White-fronted Tit

Larks

  • Singing Bushlark
  • Eurasian Skylark
  • Oriental Skylark

Cisticolas and Allies

  • Leyte Plumed-Warbler
  • Mindanao Plumed-Warbler
  • Rufous-fronted Tailorbird
  • Ashy Tailorbird
  • Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
  • Visayan Tailorbird
  • Gray-backed Tailorbird
  • Green-backed Tailorbird
  • Yellow-breasted Tailorbird
  • White-browed Tailorbird
  • White-eared Tailorbird
  • Zitting Cisticola
  • Golden-headed Cisticola

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Black-browed Reed Warbler
  • Streaked Reed Warbler
  • Oriental Reed Warbler
  • Clamorous Reed Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies

  • Cordillera Ground-Warbler
  • Sierra Madre Ground-Warbler
  • Bicol Ground-Warbler
  • Gray's Grasshopper Warbler
  • Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler
  • Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler
  • Lanceolated Warbler
  • Long-tailed Bush Warbler
  • Benguet Bush Warbler
  • Tawny Grassbird
  • Striated Grassbird

Swallows

  • Gray-throated Martin
  • Bank Swallow
  • Pacific Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Siberian House-Martin
  • Asian House-Martin
  • Eastern Red-rumped Swallow

Bulbuls

  • Gray-throated Bulbul
  • Sulphur-bellied Bulbul
  • Philippine Bulbul
  • Mindoro Bulbul
  • Streak-breasted Bulbul
  • Visayan Bulbul
  • Yellowish Bulbul
  • Camiguin Bulbul
  • Zamboanga Bulbul
  • Brown-eared Bulbul
  • Black Bulbul
  • Yellow-wattled Bulbul
  • Black-headed Bulbul
  • Olive-winged Bulbul
  • Ashy-fronted Bulbul
  • Light-vented Bulbul
  • Yellow-vented Bulbul

Leaf Warblers

  • Yellow-browed Warbler
  • Radde's Warbler
  • Dusky Warbler
  • Willow Warbler
  • Lemon-throated Leaf Warbler
  • Philippine Leaf Warbler
  • Ijima's Leaf Warbler
  • Japanese Leaf Warbler
  • Arctic Warbler
  • Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
  • Yellow-breasted Warbler
  • Negros Leaf Warbler

Bush Warblers and Allies

  • Asian Stubtail
  • Mountain Tailorbird
  • Rufous-headed Tailorbird
  • Philippine Bush Warbler
  • Manchurian Bush Warbler
  • Aberrant Bush Warbler

White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies

  • Flame-templed Babbler
  • Visayan Pygmy-Babbler
  • Mindanao Pygmy-Babbler
  • Rusty-crowned Babbler
  • Golden-crowned Babbler
  • Calabarzon Babbler
  • Visayan Babbler
  • Palawan Striped-Babbler
  • Luzon Striped-Babbler
  • Chestnut-faced Babbler
  • Panay Striped-Babbler
  • Negros Striped-Babbler
  • Mindanao Heleia
  • Yellowish White-eye
  • Warbling White-eye
  • Lowland White-eye
  • Everett's White-eye

Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers, and Allies

  • Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
  • Brown Tit-Babbler

Ground Babblers and Allies

  • Palawan Babbler
  • Ashy-headed Babbler
  • Striated Wren-Babbler
  • Falcated Wren-Babbler

Nuthatches

  • Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
  • Sulphur-billed Nuthatch

Starlings

  • Stripe-sided Rhabdornis
  • Long-billed Rhabdornis
  • Stripe-breasted Rhabdornis
  • Visayan Rhabdornis
  • Asian Glossy Starling
  • Short-tailed Starling
  • Apo Myna
  • Coleto
  • Common Hill Myna
  • European Starling
  • Rosy Starling
  • Daurian Starling
  • Chestnut-cheeked Starling
  • White-shouldered Starling
  • Chestnut-tailed Starling
  • Red-billed Starling
  • White-cheeked Starling
  • Common Myna
  • Crested Myna

Thrushes and Allies

  • Sunda Thrush
  • White's Thrush
  • Ashy Thrush
  • Chestnut-capped Thrush
  • Chinese Blackbird
  • Japanese Thrush
  • Mindoro Island-Thrush
  • Luzon Island-Thrush
  • Mindanao Island-Thrush
  • Pale Thrush
  • Eyebrowed Thrush
  • Brown-headed Thrush
  • Red-throated Thrush
  • Dusky Thrush
  • Naumann's Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

  • Gray-streaked Flycatcher
  • Dark-sided Flycatcher
  • Ferruginous Flycatcher
  • Asian Brown Flycatcher
  • Ashy-breasted Flycatcher
  • Philippine Magpie-Robin
  • White-browed Shama
  • Visayan Shama
  • White-vented Shama
  • Black Shama
  • Blue-and-white Flycatcher
  • Turquoise Flycatcher
  • Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher
  • Rufous-breasted Blue Flycatcher
  • Palawan Blue Flycatcher
  • Mangrove Blue Flycatcher
  • Philippine Jungle Flycatcher
  • Sulu Jungle Flycatcher
  • Bagobo Robin
  • Rusty-flanked Jungle Flycatcher
  • Negros Jungle Flycatcher
  • Mindanao Jungle Flycatcher
  • Philippine Shortwing
  • Siberian Blue Robin
  • Bluethroat
  • Siberian Rubythroat
  • Red-flanked Bluetail
  • Narcissus Flycatcher
  • Mugimaki Flycatcher
  • Little Pied Flycatcher
  • Taiga Flycatcher
  • Red-breasted Flycatcher
  • Palawan Flycatcher
  • Furtive Flycatcher
  • Little Slaty Flycatcher
  • Cryptic Flycatcher
  • Bundok Flycatcher
  • Luzon Redstart
  • Daurian Redstart
  • Blue Rock-Thrush
  • Amur Stonechat
  • Pied Bushchat

Waxwings

  • Japanese Waxwing

Flowerpeckers

  • Palawan Flowerpecker
  • Olive-backed Flowerpecker
  • Thick-billed Flowerpecker
  • Whiskered Flowerpecker
  • Olive-capped Flowerpecker
  • Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker
  • Flame-crowned Flowerpecker
  • Bicolored Flowerpecker
  • Cebu Flowerpecker
  • Red-keeled Flowerpecker
  • Black-belted Flowerpecker
  • Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker
  • Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
  • Buzzing Flowerpecker
  • Pygmy Flowerpecker
  • Fire-throated Flowerpecker

Sunbirds and Spiderhunters

  • Brown-throated Sunbird
  • Gray-throated Sunbird
  • Purple-throated Sunbird
  • Copper-throated Sunbird
  • Garden Sunbird
  • Palawan Sunbird
  • Lovely Sunbird
  • Magnificent Sunbird
  • Handsome Sunbird
  • Flaming Sunbird
  • Maroon-naped Sunbird
  • Metallic-winged Sunbird
  • Lina's Sunbird
  • Gray-hooded Sunbird
  • Apo Sunbird
  • Tboli Sunbird
  • Orange-tufted Spiderhunter
  • Pale Spiderhunter
  • Naked-faced Spiderhunter

Fairy-bluebirds

  • Palawan Fairy-bluebird
  • Philippine Fairy-bluebird

Leafbirds

  • Philippine Leafbird
  • Yellow-throated Leafbird

Waxbills and Allies

  • Java Sparrow
  • Scaly-breasted Munia
  • White-bellied Munia
  • Chestnut Munia
  • Green-faced Parrotfinch
  • Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch
  • Red-eared Parrotfinch
  • Red Avadavat

Old World Sparrows

  • Cinnamon Ibon
  • House Sparrow
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

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

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Brambling
  • Hawfinch
  • Yellow-billed Grosbeak
  • Japanese Grosbeak
  • Common Rosefinch
  • White-cheeked Bullfinch
  • Red Crossbill
  • Mindanao Serin
  • Eurasian Siskin

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

  • Lapland Longspur

Old World Buntings

  • Black-headed Bunting
  • Chestnut-eared Bunting
  • Pallas's Bunting
  • Reed Bunting
  • Yellow-breasted Bunting
  • Little Bunting
  • Rustic Bunting
  • Yellow Bunting
  • Black-faced Bunting
  • Chestnut Bunting
  • Yellow-browed Bunting

Most common birds in Philippines

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

  1. Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
  2. Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
  3. Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulva
  4. Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
  5. Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
  6. Great EgretArdea alba
  7. Kentish PloverAnarhynchus alexandrinus
  8. Eastern Cattle-EgretArdea coromanda
  9. Little EgretEgretta garzetta
  10. Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
  11. Little Ringed PloverThinornis dubius
  12. Eastern Yellow WagtailMotacilla tschutschensis
  13. Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
  14. Gray HeronArdea cinerea
  15. Long-toed StintCalidris subminuta
  16. Brown ShrikeLanius cristatus
  17. Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
  18. Ashy MinivetPericrocotus divaricatus
  19. Eurasian MoorhenGallinula chloropus
  20. Rock PigeonColumba livia

Largest bird families in Philippines

Among its regular birds.

  • Sandpipers and Allies30
  • Old World Flycatchers28
  • Pigeons and Doves27
  • Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns17
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites17
  • Cuckoos16
  • Sunbirds and Spiderhunters16
  • Starlings15

Reported in the last 30 days

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

Brown Shrike, Black-crowned Night Heron, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Philippine Jungle Crow, Brahminy Kite, Eastern Red-rumped Swallow, Ashy Minivet, Paddyfield Pipit, Kentish Plover, Pacific Swallow, Pacific Golden-Plover, Amur Stonechat, Barn Swallow, Philippine Coucal, Whiskered Tern, Eastern Cattle-Egret, White Wagtail, Buff-banded Rail, Zitting Cisticola, Yellow-vented Bulbul, Zebra Dove, White-breasted Woodswallow, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Blue Rock-Thrush, White-shouldered Starling, Little Ringed Plover, Common Snipe, Great Egret, Black-winged Stilt, Little Egret, Gray Heron, Common Myna, Wood Sandpiper, Little Bunting, Common Sandpiper, Gray Wagtail, Long-toed Stint, Swinhoe's Snipe, White-breasted Waterhen, Brown-eared Bulbul, …