Uzbekistan bird checklist

396 bird species in 68 families have been recorded in Uzbekistan, according to eBird; about 303 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 Uzbekistan right now

  1. 1Barn Swallow
  2. 2Rock Pigeon
  3. 3Western Marsh Harrier
  4. 4House Sparrow
  5. 5Pygmy Cormorant
  6. 6White Wagtail
  7. 7Crested Lark
  8. 8Eurasian Collared-Dove
  9. 9Common Chiffchaff
  10. 10Eurasian Magpie
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Uzbekistan bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Graylag Goose
  • Swan Goose
  • Greater White-fronted Goose
  • Lesser White-fronted Goose
  • Red-breasted Goose
  • Mute Swan
  • Tundra Swan
  • Whooper Swan
  • Ruddy Shelduck
  • Common Shelduck
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Garganey
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Gadwall
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • Mallard
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Marbled Duck
  • Red-crested Pochard
  • Common Pochard
  • Ferruginous Duck
  • Tufted Duck
  • Greater Scaup
  • Common Goldeneye
  • Smew
  • Common Merganser
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • White-headed Duck

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Gray Partridge
  • Daurian Partridge
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Indian Peafowl
  • Himalayan Snowcock
  • See-see Partridge
  • Common Quail
  • Chukar

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Hill Pigeon
  • Stock Dove
  • Yellow-eyed Pigeon
  • Common Wood-Pigeon
  • European Turtle-Dove
  • Oriental Turtle-Dove
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • Laughing Dove
  • Namaqua Dove

Sandgrouse

  • Pallas's Sandgrouse
  • Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
  • Black-bellied Sandgrouse

Bustards

  • Great Bustard
  • Asian Houbara
  • Little Bustard

Cuckoos

  • Common Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Eurasian Nightjar
  • Egyptian Nightjar

Swifts

  • Alpine Swift
  • Common Swift

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Water Rail
  • Spotted Crake
  • Eurasian Moorhen
  • Eurasian Coot
  • Little Crake
  • Baillon's Crake

Cranes

  • Demoiselle Crane
  • Common Crane

Thick-knees

  • Eurasian Thick-knee

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Pied Avocet

Oystercatchers

  • Eurasian Oystercatcher

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Pacific Golden-Plover
  • Common Ringed Plover
  • Little Ringed Plover
  • Northern Lapwing
  • Sociable Lapwing
  • White-tailed Lapwing
  • Caspian Plover
  • Greater Sand-Plover
  • Kentish Plover

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Eurasian Whimbrel
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Jack Snipe
  • Eurasian Woodcock
  • Solitary Snipe
  • Common Snipe
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Terek Sandpiper
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Green Sandpiper
  • Marsh Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper
  • Common Redshank
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Common Greenshank
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Red Knot
  • Ruff
  • Broad-billed Sandpiper
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Temminck's Stint
  • Sanderling
  • Dunlin
  • Little Stint

Pratincoles and Coursers

  • Collared Pratincole
  • Black-winged Pratincole

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Long-tailed Jaeger
  • Parasitic Jaeger

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Little Gull
  • Black-legged Kittiwake
  • Slender-billed Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Pallas's Gull
  • Common Gull
  • Caspian Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Little Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Caspian Tern
  • Whiskered Tern
  • Black Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Common Tern

Flamingos

  • Greater Flamingo

Grebes

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

Loons

  • Red-throated Loon

Storks

  • Black Stork
  • White Stork

Cormorants and Shags

  • Pygmy Cormorant
  • Great Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Glossy Ibis
  • Eurasian Spoonbill

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

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

Pelicans

  • Great White Pelican
  • Dalmatian Pelican

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Bearded Vulture
  • Egyptian Vulture
  • European Honey-buzzard
  • Oriental Honey-buzzard
  • Cinereous Vulture
  • Himalayan Griffon
  • Eurasian Griffon
  • Short-toed Snake-Eagle
  • Greater Spotted Eagle
  • Booted Eagle
  • Steppe Eagle
  • Imperial Eagle
  • Golden Eagle
  • Shikra
  • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
  • Eurasian Goshawk
  • Western Marsh Harrier
  • Hen Harrier
  • Pallid Harrier
  • Montagu's Harrier
  • Black Kite
  • White-tailed Eagle
  • Pallas's Fish-Eagle
  • Rough-legged Hawk
  • Common Buzzard
  • Long-legged Buzzard
  • Upland Buzzard
  • Eastern Buzzard

Barn-Owls

  • Western Barn Owl

Owls

  • Eurasian Scops-Owl
  • Pallid Scops-Owl
  • Eurasian Eagle-Owl
  • Little Owl
  • Tawny Owl
  • Long-eared Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Boreal Owl

Hoopoes

  • Common Hoopoe

Bee-eaters

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

Kingfishers

  • Common Kingfisher

Rollers

  • European Roller

Woodpeckers

  • Eurasian Wryneck
  • White-winged Woodpecker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Lesser Kestrel
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Eurasian Hobby
  • Saker Falcon
  • Peregrine Falcon

Old World Orioles

  • Eurasian Golden Oriole
  • Indian Golden Oriole

Monarch Flycatchers

  • Indian Paradise-Flycatcher

Shrikes

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

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

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

Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice

  • Rufous-naped Tit
  • Willow Tit
  • Azure Tit
  • Great Tit

Penduline-Tits

  • Eurasian Penduline-Tit
  • Black-headed Penduline-Tit
  • White-crowned Penduline-Tit

Larks

  • Greater Hoopoe-Lark
  • Desert Lark
  • White-winged Lark
  • Eurasian Skylark
  • Oriental Skylark
  • Crested Lark
  • Horned Lark
  • Greater Short-toed Lark
  • Hume's Lark
  • Bimaculated Lark
  • Calandra Lark
  • Asian Short-toed Lark
  • Turkestan Short-toed Lark

Bearded Reedling

  • Bearded Reedling

Reed Warblers and Allies

  • Booted Warbler
  • Sykes's Warbler
  • Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
  • Upcher's Warbler
  • Icterine Warbler
  • Moustached Warbler
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Paddyfield Warbler
  • Blyth's Reed Warbler
  • Common Reed Warbler
  • Great Reed Warbler
  • Clamorous Reed Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies

  • Savi's Warbler
  • Common Grasshopper Warbler

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Pale Martin
  • Eurasian Crag-Martin
  • Barn Swallow
  • Western House-Martin
  • European Red-rumped Swallow

Leaf Warblers

  • Wood Warbler
  • Yellow-browed Warbler
  • Hume's Warbler
  • Pallas's Leaf Warbler
  • Sulphur-bellied Warbler
  • Willow Warbler
  • Common Chiffchaff
  • Green Warbler
  • Greenish Warbler
  • Arctic Warbler
  • Western Crowned Warbler

Bush Warblers and Allies

  • Scrub Warbler
  • Cetti's Warbler

Long-tailed Tits

  • White-browed Tit-Warbler

Sylviid Warblers and Allies

  • Eurasian Blackcap
  • Garden Warbler
  • Barred Warbler
  • Lesser Whitethroat
  • Eastern Orphean Warbler
  • Asian Desert Warbler
  • Menetries's Warbler
  • Rüppell's Warbler
  • Greater Whitethroat

Laughingthrushes and Allies

  • Streaked Laughingthrush

Kinglets

  • Goldcrest

Wallcreeper

  • Wallcreeper

Nuthatches

  • Eastern Rock Nuthatch

Treecreepers

  • Eurasian Treecreeper
  • Bar-tailed Treecreeper

Wrens

  • Eurasian Wren

Dippers

  • White-throated Dipper
  • Brown Dipper

Starlings

  • European Starling
  • Rosy Starling
  • Common Myna

Thrushes and Allies

  • Mistle Thrush
  • Song Thrush
  • Redwing
  • Eurasian Blackbird
  • Fieldfare
  • Black-throated Thrush
  • Red-throated Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

  • Spotted Flycatcher
  • Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
  • European Robin
  • White-throated Robin
  • Thrush Nightingale
  • Common Nightingale
  • Bluethroat
  • Blue Whistling-Thrush
  • Little Forktail
  • Himalayan Rubythroat
  • Red-flanked Bluetail
  • Rusty-tailed Flycatcher
  • Red-breasted Flycatcher
  • European Pied Flycatcher
  • Rufous-backed Redstart
  • White-capped Redstart
  • Blue-capped Redstart
  • Common Redstart
  • White-winged Redstart
  • Black Redstart
  • Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
  • Blue Rock-Thrush
  • Whinchat
  • Siberian Stonechat
  • Pied Bushchat
  • Northern Wheatear
  • Isabelline Wheatear
  • Desert Wheatear
  • Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
  • Pied Wheatear
  • Variable Wheatear
  • Finsch's Wheatear

Waxwings

  • Bohemian Waxwing

Accentors

  • Alpine Accentor
  • Altai Accentor
  • Brown Accentor
  • Black-throated Accentor

Old World Sparrows

  • Saxaul Sparrow
  • House Sparrow
  • Spanish Sparrow
  • Zarudny's Sparrow
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  • Rock Sparrow
  • Pale Rockfinch
  • White-winged Snowfinch

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Gray Wagtail
  • Western Yellow Wagtail
  • Eastern Yellow Wagtail
  • Citrine Wagtail
  • White Wagtail
  • Richard's Pipit
  • Tawny Pipit
  • Meadow Pipit
  • Tree Pipit
  • Olive-backed Pipit
  • Red-throated Pipit
  • Water Pipit
  • Siberian Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Common Chaffinch
  • Brambling
  • White-winged Grosbeak
  • Hawfinch
  • Common Rosefinch
  • Blyth's Rosefinch
  • Long-tailed Rosefinch
  • Crimson-winged Finch
  • Trumpeter Finch
  • Mongolian Finch
  • Plain Mountain Finch
  • Desert Finch
  • European Greenfinch
  • Twite
  • Eurasian Linnet
  • Redpoll
  • Red Crossbill
  • European Goldfinch
  • Gray-crowned Goldfinch
  • Fire-fronted Serin
  • Eurasian Siskin

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

  • Lapland Longspur

Old World Buntings

  • Black-headed Bunting
  • Red-headed Bunting
  • Corn Bunting
  • Chestnut-eared Bunting
  • Rock Bunting
  • Meadow Bunting
  • White-capped Bunting
  • Yellowhammer
  • Pine Bunting
  • Gray-necked Bunting
  • Ortolan Bunting
  • Reed Bunting
  • Little Bunting

Most common birds in Uzbekistan

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

  1. Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
  2. Rock PigeonColumba livia
  3. Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
  4. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  5. Pygmy CormorantMicrocarbo pygmaeus
  6. White WagtailMotacilla alba
  7. Crested LarkGalerida cristata
  8. Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto
  9. Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
  10. Eurasian MagpiePica pica
  11. Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra
  12. Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
  13. Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus
  14. ChukarAlectoris chukar
  15. Gray HeronArdea cinerea
  16. MallardAnas platyrhynchos
  17. Eurasian KestrelFalco tinnunculus
  18. Northern LapwingVanellus vanellus
  19. Eurasian CootFulica atra
  20. Northern PintailAnas acuta

Largest bird families in Uzbekistan

Among its regular birds.

  • Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl24
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites23
  • Old World Flycatchers21
  • Sandpipers and Allies20
  • Finches, Euphonias, and Allies19
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers13
  • Larks12
  • Crows, Jays, and Magpies10

Reported in the last 30 days

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

Pygmy Cormorant, Western Marsh Harrier, Crested Lark, Barn Swallow, Rock Pigeon, Common Chiffchaff, White Wagtail, Eurasian Magpie, Eurasian Kestrel, House Sparrow, Isabelline Shrike, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Little Owl, Corn Bunting, Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Chukar, Finsch's Wheatear, Desert Lark, Scrub Warbler, Carrion Crow, Oriental Turtle-Dove, Gray Heron, Isabelline Wheatear, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Black-headed Gull, Water Pipit, Slender-billed Gull, Pale Martin, Common Redshank, Northern Pintail, Northern Lapwing, Marbled Duck, Mallard, Long-legged Buzzard, Lesser Whitethroat, Eurasian Coot, Graylag Goose, Hooded Crow, European Starling, Great Egret, …