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Bahrain
This checklist includes all bird species found in Bahrain , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2023. If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Bahrain [map]
Other names: Kingdom of Bahrain
Date last reviewed: 2020-03-01
Last modified: 2024-08-03
See also: http://www.hawar-islands.com/checklist.html
Last modified: 2024-08-03
See also: http://www.hawar-islands.com/checklist.html
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| Common Ostrich | Struthio camelus | Extirpated |
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| Graylag Goose | Anser anser | |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Mute Swan | Cygnus olor | Rare/Accidental |
| Egyptian Goose | Alopochen aegyptiaca | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | |
| Cotton Pygmy-Goose | Nettapus coromandelianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Baikal Teal | Sibirionetta formosa | Uncertain origin |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Marbled Duck | Marmaronetta angustirostris | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Vulnerable |
| Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | Rare/Accidental |
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| Gray Francolin | Ortygornis pondicerianus | Introduced species |
| Black Francolin | Francolinus francolinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Chukar | Alectoris chukar | |
| Philby's Partridge | Alectoris philbyi | |
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| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
| Eared Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Stock Dove | Columba oenas | Rare/Accidental |
| European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Vulnerable |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
| African Collared-Dove | Streptopelia roseogrisea | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis | |
| Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | |
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| Pin-tailed Sandgrouse | Pterocles alchata | |
| Black-bellied Sandgrouse | Pterocles orientalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Asian Koel | Eudynamys scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
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| Eurasian Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
| Egyptian Nightjar | Caprimulgus aegyptius | |
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| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
| Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Eurasian Coot | Fulica atra | |
| Gray-headed Swamphen | Porphyrio poliocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Crake | Zapornia parva | |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | |
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| Common Crane | Grus grus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Thick-knee | Burhinus oedicnemus | |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Near-threatened |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Vulnerable |
| European Golden-Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
| Eurasian Dotterel | Eudromias morinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Near-threatened |
| Spur-winged Lapwing | Vanellus spinosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-wattled Lapwing | Vanellus indicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sociable Lapwing | Vanellus gregarius | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
| White-tailed Lapwing | Vanellus leucurus | |
| Caspian Plover | Anarhynchus asiaticus | |
| Tibetan Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus atrifrons | |
| Greater Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus leschenaultii | |
| Kittlitz's Plover | Anarhynchus pecuarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentish Plover | Anarhynchus alexandrinus | |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Snipe | Gallinago media | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Pin-tailed Snipe | Gallinago stenura | |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Vulnerable |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Vulnerable |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Near-threatened |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
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| Crab-Plover | Dromas ardeola | |
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| Cream-colored Courser | Cursorius cursor | |
| Small Pratincole | Glareola lactea | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-winged Pratincole | Glareola nordmanni | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | |
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| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
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| Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Gray-hooded Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallas's Gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | |
| Sooty Gull | Ichthyaetus hemprichii | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Gull | Larus canus | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
| Armenian Gull | Larus armenicus | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Saunders's Tern | Sternula saundersi | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| White-cheeked Tern | Sterna repressa | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | |
| Great Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | Rare/Accidental |
| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
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| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| Socotra Cormorant | Phalacrocorax nigrogularis | Vulnerable |
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| Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Dalmatian Pelican | Pelecanus crispus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Great Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | |
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Black Heron | Egretta ardesiaca | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Western Reef-Heron | Egretta gularis | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
| Western Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
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| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | Rare/Accidental |
| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | Endangered |
| European Honey-buzzard | Pernis apivorus | |
| Oriental Honey-buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-toed Snake-Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | |
| Greater Spotted Eagle | Clanga clanga | Vulnerable |
| Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | |
| Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | Endangered |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Near-threatened |
| Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
| Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | |
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| Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| Eurasian Scops-Owl | Otus scops | |
| Pallid Scops-Owl | Otus brucei | Rare/Accidental |
| Pharaoh Eagle-Owl | Bubo ascalaphus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Eagle-Owl | Bubo bubo | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
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| Eurasian Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
| White-throated Kingfisher | Halcyon smyrnensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | |
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| Arabian Green Bee-eater | Merops cyanophrys | |
| Asian Green Bee-eater | Merops orientalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | |
| Indian Roller | Coracias benghalensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
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| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |
| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Sooty Falcon | Falco concolor | Vulnerable |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
| Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | Endangered |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Alexandrine Parakeet | Psittacula eupatria | Introduced species Near-threatened |
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | |
| Red-tailed Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides | |
| Isabelline Shrike | Lanius isabellinus | |
| Bay-backed Shrike | Lanius vittatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Gray Shrike | Lanius excubitor | |
| Lesser Gray Shrike | Lanius minor | |
| Masked Shrike | Lanius nubicus | |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Near-threatened |
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| House Crow | Corvus splendens | |
| Brown-necked Raven | Corvus ruficollis | Extirpated |
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| Eurasian Penduline-Tit | Remiz pendulinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Greater Hoopoe-Lark | Alaemon alaudipes | |
| Thick-billed Lark | Ramphocoris clotbey | |
| Bar-tailed Lark | Ammomanes cinctura | |
| Desert Lark | Ammomanes deserti | |
| Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark | Eremopterix nigriceps | |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| Bimaculated Lark | Melanocorypha bimaculata | |
| Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | Rare/Accidental |
| Mediterranean Short-toed Lark | Alaudala rufescens | |
| Turkestan Short-toed Lark | Alaudala heinei | |
| Wood Lark | Lullula arborea | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Skylark | Alauda arvensis | |
| Oriental Skylark | Alauda gulgula | |
| Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | |
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| Graceful Prinia | Prinia gracilis | |
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| Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | |
| Upcher's Warbler | Hippolais languida | |
| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | Rare/Accidental |
| Moustached Warbler | Acrocephalus melanopogon | Rare/Accidental |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
| Paddyfield Warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | Rare/Accidental |
| Blyth's Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | Rare/Accidental |
| Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | |
| Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
| Basra Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus griseldis | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | |
| Clamorous Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus stentoreus | |
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| River Warbler | Locustella fluviatilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Eurasian Crag-Martin | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
| Rock Martin | Ptyonoprogne fuligula | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Western House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
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| Red-vented Bulbul | Pycnonotus cafer | Introduced species |
| White-eared Bulbul | Pycnonotus leucotis | |
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| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hume's Warbler | Phylloscopus humei | Rare/Accidental |
| Plain Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus neglectus | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
| Green Warbler | Phylloscopus nitidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Greenish Warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | |
| Barred Warbler | Curruca nisoria | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | |
| Eastern Orphean Warbler | Curruca crassirostris | |
| Asian Desert Warbler | Curruca nana | |
| Menetries's Warbler | Curruca mystacea | |
| Greater Whitethroat | Curruca communis | |
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| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | |
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | Introduced species |
| Bank Myna | Acridotheres ginginianus | Uncertain origin |
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| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | Rare/Accidental |
| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | Rare/Accidental |
| Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Thrush | Turdus atrogularis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | |
| Black Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas podobe | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | |
| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| White-throated Robin | Irania gutturalis | |
| Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | |
| Semicollared Flycatcher | Ficedula semitorquata | |
| Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-backed Redstart | Phoenicurus erythronotus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | |
| Blue Rock-Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | |
| European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | |
| Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | |
| Hooded Wheatear | Oenanthe monacha | Rare/Accidental |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | |
| Western Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | |
| Eastern Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe melanoleuca | |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | |
| Hume's Wheatear | Oenanthe albonigra | Rare/Accidental |
| White-crowned Wheatear | Oenanthe leucopyga | Rare/Accidental |
| Finsch's Wheatear | Oenanthe finschii | Rare/Accidental |
| Mourning Wheatear | Oenanthe lugens | |
| Kurdish Wheatear | Oenanthe xanthoprymna | |
| Persian Wheatear | Oenanthe chrysopygia | |
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| Hypocolius | Hypocolius ampelinus | |
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| Purple Sunbird | Cinnyris asiaticus | |
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| Rüppell's Weaver | Ploceus galbula | Introduced species |
| Streaked Weaver | Ploceus manyar | Introduced species |
| Red Fody | Foudia madagascariensis | Introduced species |
| Southern Red Bishop | Euplectes orix | Introduced species |
| Yellow-crowned Bishop | Euplectes afer | Introduced species |
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| African Silverbill | Euodice cantans | |
| Indian Silverbill | Euodice malabarica | |
| Red Avadavat | Amandava amandava | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Spanish Sparrow | Passer hispaniolensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Dead Sea Sparrow | Passer moabiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-throated Sparrow | Gymnoris xanthocollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pale Rockfinch | Carpospiza brachydactyla | |
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| Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | |
| Blyth's Pipit | Anthus godlewskii | Rare/Accidental |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
| Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
| Water Pipit | Anthus spinoletta | |
| American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | Rare/Accidental |
| Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Trumpeter Finch | Bucanetes githagineus | |
| Mongolian Finch | Bucanetes mongolicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Linnet | Linaria cannabina | Rare/Accidental |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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| Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | Rare/Accidental |
| Corn Bunting | Emberiza calandra | |
| Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | Rare/Accidental |
| Cinereous Bunting | Emberiza cineracea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |
| Reed Bunting | Emberiza schoeniclus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-breasted Bunting | Emberiza aureola | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
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