Birds of Germany

596 bird species have been recorded in Germany on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 594 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.

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Birds to know first

• Abdim’s StorkCiconia abdimii
• African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
• African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
• Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
• Alpine AccentorPrunella collaris
• Alpine ChoughPyrrhocorax graculus
• Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
• American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
• American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
• American KestrelFalco sparverius
• American PipitAnthus rubescens
• American WigeonMareca americana
• Amur StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
• Aquatic WarblerAcrocephalus paludicola
• Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
• Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
• Ashy-headed GooseChloephaga poliocephala
• Asian Desert WarblerCurruca nana
• Atlantic CanarySerinus canaria
• Atlantic PuffinFratercula arctica
• Audouin’s GullIchthyaetus audouinii
• Australian ShelduckTadorna tadornoides
• Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
• Baillon’s CrakeZapornia pusilla
• Baird’s SandpiperCalidris bairdii
• Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
• Balearic ShearwaterPuffinus mauretanicus
• Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
• Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
• Barn OwlTyto alba

The full checklist — 594 birds of Germany in our library

• Abdim’s Stork
• African Collared Dove
• African Sacred Ibis
• Alexandrine Parakeet
• Alpine Accentor
• Alpine Chough
• Alpine Swift
• American Flamingo
• American Golden Plover
• American Kestrel
• American Pipit
• American Wigeon
• Amur Stonechat
• Aquatic Warbler
• Arctic Tern
• Arctic Warbler
• Ashy-headed Goose
• Asian Desert Warbler
• Atlantic Canary
• Atlantic Puffin
• Audouin’s Gull
• Australian Shelduck
• Baikal Teal
• Baillon’s Crake
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Bald Eagle
• Balearic Shearwater
• Bar-headed Goose
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Barn Owl
• Barn Swallow
• Barnacle Goose
• Barred Warbler
• Barrow’s Goldeneye
• Bearded Reedling
• Bearded Vulture
• Bernier’s Teal
• Bimaculated Lark
• Black Francolin
• Black Grouse
• Black Guillemot
• Black Kite
• Black Redstart
• Black Scoter
• Black Stork
• Black Swan
• Black Tern
• Black Woodpecker
• Black-bellied Whistling Duck
• Black-browed Albatross
• Black-cheeked Lovebird
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-faced Bunting
• Black-faced Ibis
• Black-headed Bunting
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Black-necked Grebe
• Black-necked Swan
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-throated Loon
• Black-throated Thrush
• Black-winged Kite
• Black-winged Pratincole
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw
• Blue-billed Teal
• Blue-winged Teal
• Bluethroat
• Blyth’s Pipit
• Blyth’s Reed Warbler
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Bonelli’s Eagle
• Booted Eagle
• Booted Warbler
• Boreal Owl
• Brambling
• Brant Goose
• Broad-billed Sandpiper
• Brown Shrike
• Budgerigar
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Bufflehead
• Cackling Goose
• Calandra Lark
• California Quail
• Canada Goose
• Cape Barren Goose
• Cape Teal
• Carrion Crow
• Caspian Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Cetti’s Warbler
• Chestnut Teal
• Chilean Flamingo
• Chiloe Wigeon
• Cinereous Vulture
• Cinnamon Teal
• Cirl Bunting
• Citril Finch
• Citrine Wagtail
• Coal Tit
• Cockatiel
• Collared Flycatcher
• Collared Pratincole
• Common Blackbird
• Common Buzzard
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Crane
• Common Cuckoo
• Common Eider
• Common Firecrest
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Grasshopper Warbler
• Common Greenshank
• Common Gull
• Common Hill Myna
• Common Hoopoe
• Common Kestrel
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Linnet
• Common Loon
• Common Merganser
• Common Moorhen
• Common Murre
• Common Nightingale
• Common Pheasant
• Common Pochard
• Common Quail
• Common Redshank
• Common Redstart
• Common Reed Bunting
• Common Reed Warbler
• Common Ringed Plover
• Common Rock Thrush
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Scoter
• Common Shelduck
• Common Snipe
• Common Starling
• Common Swift
• Common Tern
• Common Whitethroat
• Common Wood Pigeon
• Corn Bunting
• Corn Crake
• Cory’s Shearwater
• Crested Lark
• Crested Tit
• Cretzschmar’s Bunting
• Crimson Rosella
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Dalmatian Pelican
• Dartford Warbler
• Demoiselle Crane
• Desert Wheatear
• Diamond Dove
• Dunlin
• Dunnock
• Dusky Thrush
• Dusky Warbler
• Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
• Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler
• Eastern Crowned Warbler
• Eastern Imperial Eagle
• Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
• Eastern Rosella
• Eastern Subalpine Warbler
• Eastern Yellow Wagtail
• Egyptian Goose
• Egyptian Vulture
• Elegant Parrot
• Elegant Tern
• Emperor Goose
• Eurasian Bittern
• Eurasian Blackcap
• Eurasian Blue Tit
• Eurasian Bullfinch
• Eurasian Chaffinch
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Coot
• Eurasian Crag Martin
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Dotterel
• Eurasian Eagle-Owl
• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• Eurasian Goshawk
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Jay
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Nuthatch
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
• Eurasian Penduline Tit
• Eurasian Pygmy Owl
• Eurasian Scops Owl
• Eurasian Siskin
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Stone-curlew
• Eurasian Teal
• Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eurasian Treecreeper
• Eurasian Whimbrel
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Eurasian Woodcock
• Eurasian Wren
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Bee-eater
• European Golden Plover
• European Goldfinch
• European Green Woodpecker
• European Greenfinch
• European Herring Gull
• European Honey Buzzard
• European Nightjar
• European Pied Flycatcher
• European Red-rumped Swallow
• European Robin
• European Rock Pipit
• European Roller
• European Serin
• European Shag
• European Stonechat
• European Storm Petrel
• European Turtle Dove
• Eyebrowed Thrush
• Falcated Duck
• Ferruginous Duck
• Fieldfare
• Fischer’s Lovebird
• Franklin’s Gull
• Fulvous Whistling Duck
• Gadwall
• Garden Warbler
• Garganey
• Glaucous Gull
• Glossy Ibis
• Goldcrest
• Golden Eagle
• Golden Pheasant
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Great Bustard
• Great Cormorant
• Great Crested Grebe
• Great Egret
• Great Grey Shrike
• Great Reed Warbler
• Great Skua
• Great Snipe
• Great Spotted Cuckoo
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Great Tit
• Great White Pelican
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Rhea
• Greater Sand Plover
• Greater Scaup
• Greater Short-toed Lark
• Greater Spotted Eagle
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Green Sandpiper
• Green Warbler
• Greenish Warbler
• Grey Catbird
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Grey Gull
• Grey Heron
• Grey Parrot
• Grey Partridge
• Grey Plover
• Grey Wagtail
• Grey-headed Swamphen
• Grey-headed Woodpecker
• Grey-necked Bunting
• Greylag Goose
• Griffon Vulture
• Gull-billed Tern
• Gyrfalcon
• Hardhead
• Hawfinch
• Hazel Grouse
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• Hen Harrier
• Hooded Crow
• Hooded Merganser
• Horned Grebe
• Horned Lark
• House Finch
• House Sparrow
• Hume’s Leaf Warbler
• Iberian Chiffchaff
• Iceland Gull
• Icterine Warbler
• Indian Eagle-Owl
• Indian Peafowl
• Indian Spot-billed Duck
• Isabelline Shrike
• Isabelline Wheatear
• Italian Sparrow
• Ivory Gull
• Jack Snipe
• Japanese Grosbeak
• Japanese Quail
• Kentish Plover
• King Eider
• Lanceolated Warbler
• Lapland Longspur
• Laughing Gull
• Laughing Kookaburra
• Leach’s Storm Petrel
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Flamingo
• Lesser Grey Shrike
• Lesser Kestrel
• Lesser Scaup
• Lesser Spotted Eagle
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
• Lesser White-fronted Goose
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Little Auk
• Little Bittern
• Little Bunting
• Little Bustard
• Little Crake
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Gull
• Little Owl
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Stint
• Little Swift
• Little Tern
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Long-tailed Duck
• Long-tailed Jaeger
• Long-tailed Tit
• Long-toed Stint
• Mallard
• Mandarin Duck
• Maned Duck
• Manx Shearwater
• Marbled Duck
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Marsh Tit
• Marsh Warbler
• Masked Lapwing
• Masked Shrike
• Meadow Pipit
• Mediterranean Gull
• Melodious Warbler
• Merlin
• Middle Spotted Woodpecker
• Mistle Thrush
• Moltoni’s Warbler
• Monk Parakeet
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Moustached Warbler
• Mulga Parrot
• Muscovy Duck
• Mute Swan
• Nene
• Northern Bald Ibis
• Northern Bobwhite
• Northern Fulmar
• Northern Gannet
• Northern Hawk-Owl
• Northern Lapwing
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Nutcracker
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Raven
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Wheatear
• Olive-backed Pipit
• Orange-winged Amazon
• Oriental Pratincole
• Oriental Turtle Dove
• Ortolan Bunting
• Osprey
• Pacific Black Duck
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Pacific Parrotlet
• Paddyfield Warbler
• Pale Thrush
• Pale-headed Rosella
• Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
• Pallas’s Gull
• Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
• Pallid Harrier
• Pallid Swift
• Papuan Eclectus
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Parrot Crossbill
• Pechora Pipit
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Peregrine Falcon
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Crow
• Pied Wheatear
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pine Bunting
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Pink-footed Goose
• Plum-headed Parakeet
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Puna Teal
• Purple Heron
• Purple Sandpiper
• Pygmy Cormorant
• Radde’s Warbler
• Radjah Shelduck
• Razorbill
• Red Crossbill
• Red Junglefowl
• Red Kite
• Red Knot
• Red Phalarope
• Red-backed Shrike
• Red-billed Leiothrix
• Red-breasted Flycatcher
• Red-breasted Goose
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Red-crested Pochard
• Red-crowned Crane
• Red-crowned Parakeet
• Red-flanked Bluetail
• Red-footed Falcon
• Red-legged Partridge
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-rumped Parrot
• Red-shouldered Macaw
• Red-tailed Shrike
• Red-throated Loon
• Red-throated Pipit
• Red-whiskered Bulbul
• Redhead
• Redpoll
• Redwing
• Richard’s Pipit
• Ring Ouzel
• Ring-billed Gull
• Ring-necked Duck
• Ringed Teal
• River Warbler
• Rock Bunting
• Rock Dove
• Rock Partridge
• Rock Ptarmigan
• Rook
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Ross’s Goose
• Ross’s Gull
• Rosy Starling
• Rosy-billed Pochard
• Rosy-faced Lovebird
• Rough-legged Buzzard
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruddy-headed Goose
• Ruff
• Rustic Bunting
• Sabine’s Gull
• Saker Falcon
• Sand Martin
• Sanderling
• Sandhill Crane
• Sandwich Tern
• Sardinian Warbler
• Savi’s Warbler
• Scarlet Ibis
• Sedge Warbler
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Short-eared Owl
• Short-toed Snake Eagle
• Short-toed Treecreeper
• Siberian Accentor
• Siberian Rubythroat
• Siberian Sand Plover
• Siberian Stonechat
• Silver Pheasant
• Silver Teal
• Slender-billed Gull
• Smew
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Sociable Lapwing
• Song Sparrow
• Song Thrush
• Sooty Shearwater
• South African Shelduck
• Spanish Sparrow
• Spectacled Warbler
• Spotted Crake
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Spotted Redshank
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Spur-winged Goose
• Squacco Heron
• Stejneger’s Scoter
• Steller’s Eider
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Stock Dove
• Sudan Golden Sparrow
• Sunda Zebra Finch
• Superb Parrot
• Surf Scoter
• Swan Goose
• Syrian Woodpecker
• Taiga Bean Goose
• Taiga Flycatcher
• Tawny Owl
• Tawny Pipit
• Temminck’s Stint
• Terek Sandpiper
• Thrush Nightingale
• Tree Pipit
• Trumpeter Swan
• Tufted Duck
• Tundra Bean Goose
• Tundra Swan
• Turquoise Parrot
• Turquoise-fronted Amazon
• Twite
• Two-barred Crossbill
• Two-barred Warbler
• Upland Goose
• Ural Owl
• Velvet Scoter
• Wallcreeper
• Water Pipit
• Water Rail
• Western Black-eared Wheatear
• Western Bonelli’s Warbler
• Western Capercaillie
• Western Cattle Egret
• Western House Martin
• Western Jackdaw
• Western Marsh Harrier
• Western Olivaceous Warbler
• Western Orphean Warbler
• Western Subalpine Warbler
• Western Swamphen
• Western Yellow Wagtail
• Whinchat
• Whiskered Tern
• White Stork
• White Wagtail
• White-backed Woodpecker
• White-cheeked Pintail
• White-crowned Wheatear
• White-eared Bulbul
• White-faced Whistling Duck
• White-headed Duck
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-rumped Swift
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-tailed Lapwing
• White-throated Dipper
• White-winged Scoter
• White-winged Snowfinch
• White-winged Tern
• White’s Thrush
• Whooper Swan
• Wild Turkey
• Willow Tit
• Willow Warbler
• Wilson’s Phalarope
• Wilson’s Storm Petrel
• Wood Duck
• Wood Sandpiper
• Wood Warbler
• Woodchat Shrike
• Woodlark
• Yellow-billed Duck
• Yellow-billed Loon
• Yellow-billed Pintail
• Yellow-billed Teal
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Yellow-crowned Bishop
• Yellow-headed Amazon
• Yellow-legged Gull
• Yellowhammer
• Zitting Cisticola

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Birds of Germany by bird group

• Ducks, Geese & Swans of Germany (97 species)
• Sandpipers & Allies of Germany (40 species)
• Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Germany (33 species)
• Hawks, Eagles & Kites of Germany (26 species)
• Parrots, Cockatoos & Allies of Germany (26 species)
• Old World Flycatchers & Chats of Germany (25 species)
• True Finches of Germany (19 species)

Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.