This checklist includes all bird species found in Gibraltar , 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 2025. 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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| Graylag Goose | Anser anser | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | Rare/Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | Rare/Accidental |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | Rare/Accidental |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | Rare/Accidental |
| Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Eider | Somateria mollissima | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Common Scoter | Melanitta nigra | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ring-necked Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | Rare/Accidental |
| Barbary Partridge | Alectoris barbara | Introduced species |
| Red-legged Partridge | Alectoris rufa | Near-threatened |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Stock Dove | Columba oenas | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Wood-Pigeon | Columba palumbus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Vulnerable |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
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| Pin-tailed Sandgrouse | Pterocles alchata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Bustard | Otis tarda | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
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| Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-necked Nightjar | Caprimulgus ruficollis | Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | |
| Common Swift | Apus apus | |
| Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus | |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer | Rare/Accidental |
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| Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Coot | Fulica atra | Extirpated |
| Allen's Gallinule | Porphyrio alleni | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | Rare/Accidental |
| Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Crane | Grus grus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Thick-knee | Burhinus oedicnemus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| European Golden-Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Near-threatened |
| Kentish Plover | Anarhynchus alexandrinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | Rare/Accidental |
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| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | Rare/Accidental |
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| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | |
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| Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | Vulnerable |
| Razorbill | Alca torda | |
| Common Murre | Uria aalge | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | |
| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Vulnerable |
| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | Rare/Accidental |
| Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| Gray-hooded Gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Audouin's Gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | Vulnerable |
| Mediterranean Gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | |
| Common Gull | Larus canus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | Rare/Accidental |
| European Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-legged Gull | Larus michahellis | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | Rare/Accidental |
| West African Crested Tern | Thalasseus albididorsalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
| Eared Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-throated Loon | Gavia stellata | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Loon | Gavia arctica | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Loon | Gavia immer | Rare/Accidental |
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| European Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | |
| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| Pintado Petrel | Daption capense | Rare/Accidental |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | |
| Scopoli's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yelkouan Shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | Vulnerable |
| Balearic Shearwater | Puffinus mauretanicus | Critically endangered |
| Barolo Shearwater | Puffinus baroli | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | |
| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
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| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | Rare/Accidental |
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| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| European Shag | Gulosus aristotelis | |
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| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Bittern | Botaurus minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Black-winged Kite | Elanus caeruleus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bearded Vulture | Gypaetus barbatus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Egyptian Vulture | Neophron percnopterus | Endangered |
| European Honey-buzzard | Pernis apivorus | |
| Cinereous Vulture | Aegypius monachus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Rüppell's Griffon | Gyps rueppelli | Critically endangered |
| Eurasian Griffon | Gyps fulvus | |
| Short-toed Snake-Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | |
| Lesser Spotted Eagle | Clanga pomarina | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Spotted Eagle | Clanga clanga | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | |
| Steppe Eagle | Aquila nipalensis | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Spanish Eagle | Aquila adalberti | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | Rare/Accidental |
| Bonelli's Eagle | Aquila fasciata | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
| Eurasian Goshawk | Astur gentilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus | |
| Red Kite | Milvus milvus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
| Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Western Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| Eurasian Scops-Owl | Otus scops | |
| Eurasian Eagle-Owl | Bubo bubo | |
| Little Owl | Athene noctua | |
| Tawny Owl | Strix aluco | |
| Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | |
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| Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
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| European Roller | Coracias garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | Rare/Accidental |
| Iberian Green Woodpecker | Picus sharpei | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |
| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
| Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
| Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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| Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Gray Shrike | Lanius excubitor | Rare/Accidental |
| Masked Shrike | Lanius nubicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Near-threatened |
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| Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Iberian Magpie | Cyanopica cooki | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Magpie | Pica pica | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-billed Chough | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-billed Chough | Pyrrhocorax graculus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Jackdaw | Coloeus monedula | |
| House Crow | Corvus splendens | Introduced species |
| Carrion Crow | Corvus corone | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Crow | Corvus cornix | Rare/Accidental |
| Pied Crow | Corvus albus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Raven | Corvus corax | |
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| Coal Tit | Periparus ater | Rare/Accidental |
| Crested Tit | Lophophanes cristatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Blue Tit | Cyanistes caeruleus | |
| Great Tit | Parus major | |
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| Eurasian Penduline-Tit | Remiz pendulinus | |
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| Wood Lark | Lullula arborea | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Skylark | Alauda arvensis | |
| Thekla's Lark | Galerida theklae | |
| Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | Rare/Accidental |
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| Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
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| Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | |
| Western Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna opaca | Rare/Accidental |
| Melodious Warbler | Hippolais polyglotta | |
| Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | Rare/Accidental |
| Moustached Warbler | Acrocephalus melanopogon | Rare/Accidental |
| Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | Rare/Accidental |
| Blyth's Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
| Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Eurasian Crag-Martin | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Western House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
| European Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis rufula | |
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| Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Bonelli's Warbler | Phylloscopus bonelli | |
| Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallas's Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus proregulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
| Mountain Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus sindianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
| Iberian Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus ibericus | |
| Arctic Warbler | Phylloscopus borealis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Cetti's Warbler | Cettia cetti | Rare/Accidental |
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| Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
| Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | |
| Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Orphean Warbler | Curruca hortensis | |
| Tristram's Warbler | Curruca deserticola | Rare/Accidental |
| Sardinian Warbler | Curruca melanocephala | |
| Western Subalpine Warbler | Curruca iberiae | |
| Eastern Subalpine Warbler | Curruca cantillans | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Whitethroat | Curruca communis | |
| Spectacled Warbler | Curruca conspicillata | |
| Marmora's Warbler | Curruca sarda | Rare/Accidental |
| Dartford Warbler | Curruca undata | Near-threatened |
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| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | |
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| Wallcreeper | Tichodroma muraria | Rare/Accidental |
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| Short-toed Treecreeper | Certhia brachydactyla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | |
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| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
| Spotless Starling | Sturnus unicolor | |
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| Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | Uncertain origin |
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| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | Rare/Accidental |
| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | |
| Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | Rare/Accidental |
| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | Rare/Accidental |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
| Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue Rock-Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | |
| European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| Atlas Wheatear | Oenanthe seebohmi | Rare/Accidental |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | |
| Black Wheatear | Oenanthe leucura | Extirpated |
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| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Rare/Accidental |
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| Alpine Accentor | Prunella collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Dunnock | Prunella modularis | Rare/Accidental |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | |
| Spanish Sparrow | Passer hispaniolensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sudan Golden Sparrow | Passer luteus | Rare/Accidental |
| Rock Sparrow | Petronia petronia | Rare/Accidental |
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| Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
| Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
| Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | Rare/Accidental |
| Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | |
| Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |
| Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
| Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Water Pipit | Anthus spinoletta | Rare/Accidental |
| Rock Pipit | Anthus petrosus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
| African Chaffinch | Fringilla spodiogenys | Rare/Accidental |
| Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | Rare/Accidental |
| Trumpeter Finch | Bucanetes githagineus | Rare/Accidental |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
| Eurasian Linnet | Linaria cannabina | |
| Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | Rare/Accidental |
| European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
| European Serin | Serinus serinus | |
| Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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| Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Corn Bunting | Emberiza calandra | Rare/Accidental |
| Rock Bunting | Emberiza cia | Rare/Accidental |
| Cirl Bunting | Emberiza cirlus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | Rare/Accidental |
| Pine Bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | Rare/Accidental |
| Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | Rare/Accidental |
| House Bunting | Emberiza sahari | Rare/Accidental |
| Reed Bunting | Emberiza schoeniclus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Bunting | Emberiza pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Dark-eyed Junco | Junco hyemalis | Rare/Accidental |
| White-throated Sparrow | Zonotrichia albicollis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Common Grackle | Quiscalus quiscula | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | Rare/Accidental |
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