Birds of Malaysia
873 bird species have been recorded in Malaysia on the eBird network — explore the 869 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
873 bird species have been recorded in Malaysia on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 869 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.
See birds reported near you → Get rare-bird alerts
Birds to know first
Abbott’s BabblerMalacocincla abbotti
Aberrant Bush WarblerHorornis flavolivaceus
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Aleutian TernOnychoprion aleuticus
Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
Amur FalconFalco amurensis
Amur Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone incei
Amur StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
Ashy DrongoDicrurus leucophaeus
Ashy MinivetPericrocotus divaricatus
Ashy TailorbirdOrthotomus ruficeps
Ashy WoodswallowArtamus fuscus
Asian Brown FlycatcherMuscicapa dauurica
Asian DowitcherLimnodromus semipalmatus
Asian Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx maculatus
Asian Fairy-bluebirdIrena puella
Asian Glossy StarlingAplonis panayensis
Asian Green Bee-eaterMerops orientalis
Asian House MartinDelichon dasypus
Asian KoelEudynamys scolopaceus
Asian OpenbillAnastomus oscitans
Asian Palm SwiftCypsiurus balasiensis
Asian Red-eyed BulbulPycnonotus brunneus
Asian Woolly-necked StorkCiconia episcopus
Australian TernGelochelidon macrotarsa
Baillon’s CrakeZapornia pusilla
Band-bellied CrakeZapornia paykullii
Banded Bay CuckooCacomantis sonneratii
The full checklist — 869 birds of Malaysia in our library
- Abbott’s Babbler
- Aberrant Bush Warbler
- African Collared Dove
- Aleutian Tern
- Alexandrine Parakeet
- Amur Falcon
- Amur Paradise Flycatcher
- Amur Stonechat
- Arctic Tern
- Arctic Warbler
- Ashy Drongo
- Ashy Minivet
- Ashy Tailorbird
- Ashy Woodswallow
- Asian Brown Flycatcher
- Asian Dowitcher
- Asian Emerald Cuckoo
- Asian Fairy-bluebird
- Asian Glossy Starling
- Asian Green Bee-eater
- Asian House Martin
- Asian Koel
- Asian Openbill
- Asian Palm Swift
- Asian Red-eyed Bulbul
- Asian Woolly-necked Stork
- Australian Tern
- Baillon’s Crake
- Bamboo Woodpecker
- Band-bellied Crake
- Banded Bay Cuckoo
- Banded Broadbill
- Banded Kingfisher
- Banded Woodpecker
- Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Bar-throated Minla
- Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
- Bare-headed Laughingthrush
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Buttonquail
- Barred Cuckoo-Dove
- Barred Eagle-Owl
- Barred Rail
- Bat Hawk
- Bay Woodpecker
- Baya Weaver
- Beach Stone-curlew
- Besra
- Bicolored Babbler
- Black Baza
- Black Bittern
- Black Drongo
- Black Eagle
- Black Hornbill
- Black Kite
- Black Laughingthrush
- Black Oriole
- Black Paradise Flycatcher
- Black Partridge
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black-and-crimson Oriole
- Black-and-red Broadbill
- Black-and-white Bulbul
- Black-and-yellow Broadbill
- Black-backed Dwarf Kingfisher
- Black-backed Swamphen
- Black-bellied Malkoha
- Black-browed Barbet
- Black-browed Reed Warbler
- Black-capped Kingfisher
- Black-capped White-eye
- Black-collared Starling
- Black-crested Bulbul
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-crowned Pitta
- Black-eared Barbet
- Black-eared Shrike-babbler
- Black-faced Spoonbill
- Black-headed Bulbul
- Black-headed Bunting
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-headed Ibis
- Black-hooded Oriole
- Black-naped Fruit Dove
- Black-naped Monarch
- Black-naped Oriole
- Black-naped Tern
- Black-nest Swiftlet
- Black-sided Flowerpecker
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-tailed Gull
- Black-thighed Falconet
- Black-throated Babbler
- Black-throated Laughingthrush
- Black-throated Sunbird
- Black-throated Wren-Babbler
- Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike
- Black-winged Kite
- Black-winged Myna
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue Nuthatch
- Blue Rock Thrush
- Blue Whistling Thrush
- Blue-and-white Flycatcher
- Blue-banded Pitta
- Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
- Blue-eared Kingfisher
- Blue-headed Pitta
- Blue-naped Parrot
- Blue-rumped Parrot
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater
- Blue-throated Bee-eater
- Blue-winged Leafbird
- Blue-winged Minla
- Blue-winged Pitta
- Bluethroat
- Blyth’s Frogmouth
- Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle
- Blyth’s Paradise Flycatcher
- Blyth’s Pipit
- Bold-striped Tit-Babbler
- Bonaparte’s Nightjar
- Booted Eagle
- Booted Warbler
- Bornean Banded Pitta
- Bornean Barbet
- Bornean Black Magpie
- Bornean Black-capped Babbler
- Bornean Blue Flycatcher
- Bornean Bristlehead
- Bornean Bulbul
- Bornean Crested Fireback
- Bornean Forktail
- Bornean Frogmouth
- Bornean Green Magpie
- Bornean Ground Cuckoo
- Bornean Leafbird
- Bornean Peacock-Pheasant
- Bornean Shortwing
- Bornean Spiderhunter
- Bornean Stubtail
- Bornean Swiftlet
- Bornean Treepie
- Bornean Whistler
- Bornean Whistling Thrush
- Bornean Wren-Babbler
- Brahminy Kite
- Brahminy Starling
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Bronze-winged Jacana
- Bronzed Drongo
- Brown Barbet
- Brown Boobook
- Brown Booby
- Brown Bullfinch
- Brown Fish Owl
- Brown Fulvetta
- Brown Noddy
- Brown Shrike
- Brown Wood Owl
- Brown-backed Flowerpecker
- Brown-backed Needletail
- Brown-breasted Flycatcher
- Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher
- Brown-headed Gull
- Brown-streaked Flycatcher
- Brown-throated Sunbird
- Brown-winged Kingfisher
- Budgerigar
- Buff-banded Rail
- Buff-breasted Babbler
- Buff-necked Woodpecker
- Buff-rumped Woodpecker
- Buff-vented Bulbul
- Buffy Fish Owl
- Bulwer’s Petrel
- Bulwer’s Pheasant
- Bushy-crested Hornbill
- Caspian Tern
- Changeable Hawk-Eagle
- Charlotte’s Bulbul
- Checker-throated Woodpecker
- Chestnut Munia
- Chestnut-bellied Malkoha
- Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
- Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush
- Chestnut-capped Thrush
- Chestnut-cheeked Starling
- Chestnut-crested Yuhina
- Chestnut-crowned Warbler
- Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
- Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush
- Chestnut-naped Forktail
- Chestnut-necklaced Partridge
- Chestnut-rumped Babbler
- Chestnut-tailed Starling
- Chestnut-winged Babbler
- Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
- Chinese Blackbird
- Chinese Blue Flycatcher
- Chinese Crested Tern
- Chinese Egret
- Chinese Hwamei
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Chinese Sparrowhawk
- Christmas Frigatebird
- Cinereous Bulbul
- Cinereous Tit
- Cinereous Vulture
- Cinnamon Bittern
- Cinnamon-headed Green Pigeon
- Cinnamon-rumped Trogon
- Citrine Wagtail
- Cockatiel
- Collared Babbler
- Collared Kingfisher
- Collared Laughingthrush
- Collared Owlet
- Collared Pratincole
- Collared Scops Owl
- Common Buttonquail
- Common Buzzard
- Common Emerald Dove
- Common Flameback
- Common Green Magpie
- Common Greenshank
- Common Gull
- Common Hill Myna
- Common Hoopoe
- Common Iora
- Common Kestrel
- Common Kingfisher
- Common Moorhen
- Common Myna
- Common Quail
- Common Redshank
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Snipe
- Common Starling
- Common Tailorbird
- Common Tern
- Cook’s Swift
- Copper-throated Sunbird
- Coppersmith Barbet
- Cotton Pygmy Goose
- Crab-plover
- Cream-eyed Bulbul
- Cream-vented Bulbul
- Crested Goshawk
- Crested Honey Buzzard
- Crested Jayshrike
- Crested Myna
- Crested Partridge
- Crested Serpent Eagle
- Crimson Sunbird
- Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker
- Crimson-headed Partridge
- Crimson-winged Woodpecker
- Crocker Jungle Flycatcher
- Crow-billed Drongo
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark Hawk-Cuckoo
- Dark-necked Tailorbird
- Dark-sided Flycatcher
- Dark-throated Oriole
- Daurian Redstart
- Daurian Starling
- Dayak Blue Flycatcher
- Diamond Dove
- Diard’s Trogon
- Dulit Frogmouth
- Dunlin
- Dusky Broadbill
- Dusky Crag Martin
- Dusky Eagle-Owl
- Dusky Munia
- Dusky Warbler
- Eastern Barn Owl
- Eastern Buzzard
- Eastern Cattle Egret
- Eastern Crowned Warbler
- Eastern Grass Owl
- Eastern Imperial Eagle
- Eastern Marsh Harrier
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Edible-nest Swiftlet
- Egyptian Goose
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Coot
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Hobby
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Whimbrel
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Eurasian Woodcock
- Eurasian Wryneck
- Everett’s Thrush
- Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher
- Eyebrowed Thrush
- Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler
- Fairy Pitta
- Far Eastern Curlew
- Ferruginous Babbler
- Ferruginous Flycatcher
- Ferruginous Partridge
- Fiery Minivet
- Finsch’s Bulbul
- Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
- Fire-tufted Barbet
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler
- Forest Wagtail
- Friendly Bush Warbler
- Fruithunter
- Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher
- Garganey
- Garnet Pitta
- Giant Pitta
- Giant Swiftlet
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Babbler
- Golden-bellied Gerygone
- Golden-fronted Leafbird
- Golden-naped Barbet
- Golden-throated Barbet
- Golden-whiskered Barbet
- Gould’s Frogmouth
- Great Argus
- Great Cormorant
- Great Eared Nightjar
- Great Egret
- Great Frigatebird
- Great Hornbill
- Great Iora
- Great Knot
- Great Myna
- Great Slaty Woodpecker
- Great White Pelican
- Great-billed Heron
- Greater Coucal
- Greater Crested Tern
- Greater Flameback
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Green Leafbird
- Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
- Greater Painted-snipe
- Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
- Greater Sand Plover
- Greater Spotted Eagle
- Greater Yellownape
- Green Broadbill
- Green Imperial Pigeon
- Green Iora
- Green Peafowl
- Green Sandpiper
- Green-backed Flycatcher
- Green-billed Malkoha
- Green-cheeked Parakeet
- Grey Heron
- Grey Imperial Pigeon
- Grey Nightjar
- Grey Parrot
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Grey-and-buff Woodpecker
- Grey-breasted Babbler
- Grey-breasted Spiderhunter
- Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
- Grey-cheeked Bulbul
- Grey-chested Jungle Flycatcher
- Grey-chinned Minivet
- Grey-faced Buzzard
- Grey-headed Babbler
- Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher
- Grey-headed Fish Eagle
- Grey-headed Lapwing
- Grey-headed Swamphen
- Grey-headed Woodpecker
- Grey-rumped Treeswift
- Grey-sided Thrush
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Grey-throated Babbler
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hadada Ibis
- Hair-crested Drongo
- Hairy-backed Bulbul
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Helmeted Hornbill
- Hill Blue Flycatcher
- Hill Prinia
- Himalayan Cuckoo
- Himalayan Cutia
- Himalayan Swiftlet
- Himalayan Vulture
- Hodgson’s Hawk-Cuckoo
- Hook-billed Bulbul
- Horsfield’s Babbler
- Horsfield’s Bronze Cuckoo
- Hose’s Broadbill
- House Crow
- House Sparrow
- House Swift
- Hume’s White-eye
- Indian Cuckoo
- Indian Paradise Flycatcher
- Indian Peafowl
- Indian Pond Heron
- Indigo Flycatcher
- Indochinese Blue Flycatcher
- Indochinese Roller
- Jacobin Cuckoo
- Jambu Fruit Dove
- Japanese Leaf Warbler
- Japanese Night Heron
- Japanese Sparrowhawk
- Java Sparrow
- Javan Munia
- Javan Myna
- Javan Plover
- Javan Pond Heron
- Jerdon’s Baza
- Jungle Myna
- Kentish Plover
- King Quail
- Knob-billed Duck
- Laced Woodpecker
- Lanceolated Warbler
- Large Frogmouth
- Large Green Pigeon
- Large Hawk-Cuckoo
- Large Niltava
- Large Scimitar Babbler
- Large Woodshrike
- Large Wren-Babbler
- Large-billed Crow
- Large-tailed Nightjar
- Laughing Gull
- Lesser Adjutant
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Coucal
- Lesser Crested Tern
- Lesser Cuckooshrike
- Lesser Fish Eagle
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Frigatebird
- Lesser Green Leafbird
- Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush
- Lesser Noddy
- Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo
- Lesser Shortwing
- Lesser Whistling Duck
- Lesser Yellownape
- Lineated Barbet
- Little Black Cormorant
- Little Bronze Cuckoo
- Little Bunting
- Little Cormorant
- Little Cuckoo-Dove
- Little Curlew
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Green Pigeon
- Little Gull
- Little Heron
- Little Pied Flycatcher
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Spiderhunter
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Partridge
- Long-billed Plover
- Long-billed Spiderhunter
- Long-legged Buzzard
- Long-tailed Broadbill
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-tailed Parakeet
- Long-tailed Shrike
- Long-tailed Sibia
- Long-toed Stint
- Malayan Banded Pitta
- Malayan Black Magpie
- Malayan Black-capped Babbler
- Malayan Crested Argus
- Malayan Crested Fireback
- Malayan Crestless Fireback
- Malayan Cuckooshrike
- Malayan Laughingthrush
- Malayan Night Heron
- Malayan Partridge
- Malayan Peacock-Pheasant
- Malayan Whistling Thrush
- Malaysian Blue Flycatcher
- Malaysian Blue-banded Kingfisher
- Malaysian Eared Nightjar
- Malaysian Hawk-Cuckoo
- Malaysian Honeyguide
- Malaysian Plover
- Mallard
- Manchurian Bush Warbler
- Manchurian Reed Warbler
- Mandarin Duck
- Mangrove Blue Flycatcher
- Mangrove Pitta
- Mangrove Whistler
- Mantanani Scops Owl
- Marbled Wren-Babbler
- Maroon Woodpecker
- Maroon-breasted Philentoma
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Masked Booby
- Masked Finfoot
- Medium Egret
- Metallic Pigeon
- Middendorff’s Grasshopper Warbler
- Milky Stork
- Mossy-nest Swiftlet
- Mountain Barbet
- Mountain Blackeye
- Mountain Bulbul
- Mountain Fulvetta
- Mountain Hawk-Eagle
- Mountain Imperial Pigeon
- Mountain Leaf Warbler
- Mountain Peacock-Pheasant
- Mountain Scops Owl
- Mountain Serpent Eagle
- Mountain Tailorbird
- Mountain Wren-Babbler
- Mourning Babbler
- Moustached Babbler
- Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo
- Mugimaki Flycatcher
- Muscovy Duck
- Nankeen Night Heron
- Narcissus Flycatcher
- Nicobar Pigeon
- Nordmann’s Greenshank
- Northern Boobook
- Northern Hawk-Cuckoo
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Shoveler
- Ochraceous Bulbul
- Olive Bulbul
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Olive-backed Woodpecker
- Olive-winged Bulbul
- Orange-backed Woodpecker
- Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
- Orange-bellied Leafbird
- Orange-breasted Green Pigeon
- Orange-breasted Trogon
- Orange-headed Thrush
- Oriental Bay Owl
- Oriental Darter
- Oriental Dollarbird
- Oriental Magpie-Robin
- Oriental Pied Hornbill
- Oriental Plover
- Oriental Pratincole
- Oriental Reed Warbler
- Oriental Scops Owl
- Oriental Skylark
- Ornate Sunbird
- Osprey
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Reef Heron
- Pacific Swallow
- Pacific Swift
- Paddyfield Pipit
- Painted Stork
- Pale Blue Flycatcher
- Pale Martin
- Pale-bellied Myna
- Pale-faced Bulbul
- Pale-legged Leaf Warbler
- Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
- Papuan Eclectus
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pechora Pipit
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Penan Bulbul
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pheasant-tailed Jacana
- Philippine Cuckoo-Dove
- Philippine Megapode
- Pied Avocet
- Pied Crow
- Pied Harrier
- Pied Imperial Pigeon
- Pied Stilt
- Pied Triller
- Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
- Pin-tailed Parrotfinch
- Pin-tailed Snipe
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pink-necked Green Pigeon
- Plain Flowerpecker
- Plain Sunbird
- Plain-backed Sparrow
- Plain-pouched Hornbill
- Plaintive Cuckoo
- Plume-toed Swiftlet
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Puff-throated Babbler
- Purple Heron
- Purple-naped Spiderhunter
- Pygmy Cupwing
- Pygmy Flycatcher
- Pygmy Heleia
- Racket-tailed Treepie
- Radde’s Warbler
- Raffles’s Malkoha
- Rail-babbler
- Rainbow Bee-eater
- Rajah Scops Owl
- Red Avadavat
- Red Collared Dove
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red-and-green Macaw
- Red-bearded Bee-eater
- Red-billed Blue Magpie
- Red-billed Leiothrix
- Red-billed Malkoha
- Red-billed Starling
- Red-breasted Parakeet
- Red-breasted Partridge
- Red-crowned Barbet
- Red-footed Booby
- Red-headed Trogon
- Red-legged Crake
- Red-naped Trogon
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-throated Barbet
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-throated Sunbird
- Red-wattled Lapwing
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Reddish Scops Owl
- Rhinoceros Hornbill
- Richard’s Pipit
- Rock Dove
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Tern
- Rosy Minivet
- Rosy Starling
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Ruby-cheeked Sunbird
- Ruddy Kingfisher
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruddy-breasted Crake
- Rufescent Prinia
- Ruff
- Rufous Piculet
- Rufous Woodpecker
- Rufous-backed Dwarf Kingfisher
- Rufous-bellied Eagle
- Rufous-bellied Swallow
- Rufous-browed Flycatcher
- Rufous-chested Flycatcher
- Rufous-collared Kingfisher
- Rufous-crowned Babbler
- Rufous-fronted Babbler
- Rufous-headed Robin
- Rufous-tailed Shama
- Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
- Rufous-vented Niltava
- Rufous-winged Fulvetta
- Rufous-winged Philentoma
- Rusty-naped Pitta
- Sabah Partridge
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
- Salmon-crested Cockatoo
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Savanna Nightjar
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scaly-crowned Babbler
- Scarlet Ibis
- Scarlet Macaw
- Scarlet Minivet
- Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
- Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker
- Scarlet-rumped Trogon
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Shikra
- Short-eared Owl
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Short-toed Coucal
- Short-toed Snake Eagle
- Siamese Pied Myna
- Siberian Blue Robin
- Siberian Rubythroat
- Siberian Sand Plover
- Siberian Thrush
- Silver-backed Needletail
- Silver-breasted Broadbill
- Silver-eared Mesia
- Silver-rumped Spinetail
- Slaty-backed Forktail
- Slaty-breasted Rail
- Slaty-legged Crake
- Slender-billed Gull
- Small Pratincole
- Snowy-browed Flycatcher
- Sooty Barbet
- Sooty Tern
- Sooty-capped Babbler
- Sooty-headed Bulbul
- Southern Cassowary
- Speckled Piculet
- Spectacled Flowerpecker
- Spectacled Spiderhunter
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper
- Spot-billed Pelican
- Spotted Dove
- Spotted Fantail
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Wood Owl
- Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
- Steppe Eagle
- Stork-billed Kingfisher
- Storm’s Stork
- Straw-headed Bulbul
- Streak-breasted Woodpecker
- Streak-eared Bulbul
- Streaked Bulbul
- Streaked Shearwater
- Streaked Spiderhunter
- Streaked Wren-Babbler
- Striated Grassbird
- Stripe-throated Bulbul
- Striped Wren-Babbler
- Sultan Tit
- Sunda Blue Flycatcher
- Sunda Brush Cuckoo
- Sunda Crow
- Sunda Cuckoo
- Sunda Cuckooshrike
- Sunda Frogmouth
- Sunda Laughingthrush
- Sunda Owlet
- Sunda Pied Fantail
- Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
- Sunda Scimitar Babbler
- Sunda Scops Owl
- Sunda Teal
- Sundaic Island Thrush
- Superb Starling
- Swan Goose
- Swinhoe’s Minivet
- Swinhoe’s Snipe
- Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel
- Swinhoe’s White-eye
- Taiga Flycatcher
- Tanimbar Corella
- Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch
- Temminck’s Babbler
- Temminck’s Stint
- Temminck’s Sunbird
- Terek Sandpiper
- Thick-billed Flowerpecker
- Thick-billed Green Pigeon
- Thick-billed Spiderhunter
- Thick-billed Warbler
- Tibetan Sand Plover
- Tiger Shrike
- Tree Pipit
- Tufted Duck
- Two-barred Warbler
- Van Hasselt’s Sunbird
- Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
- Ventriloquial Oriole
- Verditer Flycatcher
- Victoria Crowned Pigeon
- Vinous-breasted Myna
- Violet Cuckoo
- Von Schrenck’s Bittern
- Wallace’s Hawk-Eagle
- Wandering Whistling Duck
- Watercock
- Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Western Hooded Pitta
- Whiskered Tern
- Whiskered Treeswift
- White Wagtail
- White-bellied Erpornis
- White-bellied Munia
- White-bellied Sea Eagle
- White-bellied Woodpecker
- White-breasted Waterhen
- White-breasted Woodswallow
- White-browed Crake
- White-browed Shrike-babbler
- White-capped Munia
- White-cheeked Starling
- White-chested Babbler
- White-crested Laughingthrush
- White-crowned Forktail
- White-crowned Hornbill
- White-crowned Shama
- White-faced Plover
- White-fronted Falconet
- White-fronted Scops Owl
- White-headed Munia
- White-necked Babbler
- White-rumped Munia
- White-rumped Shama
- White-shouldered Starling
- White-tailed Flycatcher
- White-tailed Robin
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- White-throated Fantail
- White-throated Kingfisher
- White-throated Needletail
- White-throated Rock Thrush
- White-vented Whistler
- White-winged Tern
- White’s Thrush
- Whitehead’s Broadbill
- Whitehead’s Spiderhunter
- Whitehead’s Trogon
- Wild Turkey
- Willie Wagtail
- Willow Warbler
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wreathed Hornbill
- Wrinkled Hornbill
- Yellow Bittern
- Yellow Bunting
- Yellow-bellied Bulbul
- Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker
- Yellow-bellied Prinia
- Yellow-bellied Warbler
- Yellow-billed Stork
- Yellow-breasted Bunting
- Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker
- Yellow-breasted Warbler
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- Yellow-crowned Barbet
- Yellow-eared Spiderhunter
- Yellow-legged Buttonquail
- Yellow-rumped Flowerpecker
- Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
- Yellow-vented Flowerpecker
- Yellow-vented Green Pigeon
- Zappey’s Flycatcher
- Zebra Dove
- Zitting Cisticola
More places to explore
Birds of Malaysia by bird group
- Old World Flycatchers & Chats of Malaysia (59 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Malaysia (38 species)
- Hawks, Eagles & Kites of Malaysia (37 species)
- Cuckoos of Malaysia (30 species)
- Bulbuls of Malaysia (28 species)
- Pigeons & Doves of Malaysia (28 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Malaysia (27 species)
- Woodpeckers of Malaysia (26 species)
- Pheasants, Grouse & Allies of Malaysia (24 species)
- Herons, Egrets & Bitterns of Malaysia (22 species)
- Owls of Malaysia (22 species)
- Starlings & Mynas of Malaysia (22 species)
- Sunbirds of Malaysia (20 species)
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Malaysia (18 species)
- Laughingthrushes of Malaysia (18 species)
- Parrots, Cockatoos & Allies of Malaysia (18 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.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in Malaysia?
873 species have been recorded in Malaysia on eBird; 869 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Malaysia right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.