Birds of Norfolk
497 bird species have been recorded in Norfolk on the eBird network — explore the 497 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
497 bird species have been recorded in Norfolk on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 497 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
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
African SpoonbillPlatalea alba
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
Alpine AccentorPrunella collaris
Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melba
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American WigeonMareca americana
Amur StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
Aquatic WarblerAcrocephalus paludicola
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
Asian Desert WarblerCurruca nana
Atlantic CanarySerinus canaria
Atlantic PuffinFratercula arctica
Australasian ShovelerSpatula rhynchotis
Australian ShelduckTadorna tadornoides
Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
Baird’s SandpiperCalidris bairdii
Balearic ShearwaterPuffinus mauretanicus
Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
Barn OwlTyto alba
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Barnacle GooseBranta leucopsis
Barred WarblerCurruca nisoria
Bearded ReedlingPanurus biarmicus
Bearded VultureGypaetus barbatus
The full checklist — 497 birds of Norfolk in our library
- African Collared Dove
- African Sacred Ibis
- African Spoonbill
- Alder Flycatcher
- Alexandrine Parakeet
- Alpine Accentor
- Alpine Swift
- American Golden Plover
- American Kestrel
- American Wigeon
- Amur Stonechat
- Aquatic Warbler
- Arctic Tern
- Arctic Warbler
- Asian Desert Warbler
- Atlantic Canary
- Atlantic Puffin
- Australasian Shoveler
- Australian Shelduck
- Baikal Teal
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Balearic Shearwater
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barn Owl
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barred Warbler
- Bearded Reedling
- Bearded Vulture
- Black Guillemot
- Black Kite
- Black Lark
- Black Redstart
- Black Scoter
- Black Stork
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-browed Albatross
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Bunting
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-throated Loon
- Black-throated Thrush
- Black-winged Kite
- Black-winged Pratincole
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue Rock Thrush
- Blue-winged Teal
- Bluethroat
- Blyth’s Pipit
- Blyth’s Reed Warbler
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Booted Eagle
- Booted Warbler
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Brown Shrike
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Cackling Goose
- Canada Goose
- Canvasback
- Carrion Crow
- Caspian Gull
- Caspian Tern
- Cetti’s Warbler
- Chestnut Bunting
- Chilean Flamingo
- Chiloe Wigeon
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- 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 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 Waxbill
- Common Whitethroat
- Common Wood Pigeon
- Corn Bunting
- Corn Crake
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Coscoroba Swan
- Cream-colored Courser
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dartford Warbler
- Demoiselle Crane
- Desert Wheatear
- Dunlin
- Dunnock
- Dusky Warbler
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck
- Eastern Subalpine Warbler
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Elegant Tern
- Eleonora’s Falcon
- Emperor Goose
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Blackcap
- Eurasian Blue Tit
- Eurasian Bullfinch
- Eurasian Chaffinch
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Coot
- 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 Siskin
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Eurasian Stone-curlew
- Eurasian Teal
- 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
- Falcated Duck
- Ferruginous Duck
- Fieldfare
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Goldcrest
- Golden Pheasant
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Bustard
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Knot
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Shearwater
- 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 White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Peafowl
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenish Warbler
- Grey Heron
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Grey-headed Swamphen
- Greylag Goose
- Gull-billed Tern
- Gyrfalcon
- Harris’s Hawk
- Hawfinch
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Hen Harrier
- Hooded Crow
- Hooded Merganser
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Sparrow
- Hume’s Leaf Warbler
- Iberian Chiffchaff
- Iceland Gull
- Icterine Warbler
- Indian Peafowl
- Indigo Bunting
- Isabelline Shrike
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Ivory Gull
- Jack Snipe
- Kentish Plover
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
- Lanceolated Warbler
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Laysan Duck
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Crested Tern
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Lesser White-fronted Goose
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Little Auk
- Little Bittern
- Little Bunting
- Little Crake
- Little Curlew
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Gull
- Little Owl
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- Little Tern
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-tailed Tit
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Maned Duck
- Manx Shearwater
- Marbled Duck
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Marsh Tit
- Marsh Warbler
- Meadow Bunting
- Meadow Pipit
- Mediterranean Gull
- Melodious Warbler
- Merlin
- Mistle Thrush
- Moltoni’s Warbler
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Nene
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Nutcracker
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Oriental Pratincole
- Ortolan Bunting
- Osprey
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Swift
- Paddyfield Warbler
- Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
- Pallas’s Leaf Warbler
- Pallas’s Rosefinch
- Pallid Harrier
- Pallid Swift
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Parrot Crossbill
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Avocet
- Pied Crow
- Pied Wheatear
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pine Bunting
- Pink-footed Goose
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Heron
- Purple Sandpiper
- Radde’s Warbler
- Razorbill
- Red Crossbill
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Kite
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Shoveler
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Leiothrix
- Red-breasted Flycatcher
- Red-breasted Goose
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-flanked Bluetail
- Red-footed Falcon
- Red-headed Bunting
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-throated Pipit
- Redpoll
- Redwing
- Reeves’s Pheasant
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ring Ouzel
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Teal
- River Warbler
- Rock Dove
- Rock Sparrow
- Rook
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Tern
- Ross’s Goose
- Ross’s Gull
- Rosy Starling
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous-tailed Robin
- Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
- Rüppell’s Warbler
- Rustic Bunting
- Sabine’s Gull
- Saker Falcon
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandwich Tern
- Sardinian Warbler
- Savi’s Warbler
- Sedge Warbler
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Short-eared Owl
- Siberian Stonechat
- Siberian Thrush
- Silver Teal
- Slender-billed Gull
- Smew
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Owl
- Sociable Lapwing
- Song Thrush
- Sooty Shearwater
- South African Shelduck
- Southern Red Bishop
- Spectacled Warbler
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Squacco Heron
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Stock Dove
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Superb Parrot
- Surf Scoter
- Swan Goose
- Sykes’s Warbler
- Taiga Bean Goose
- Tawny Owl
- Tawny Pipit
- Temminck’s Stint
- Terek Sandpiper
- Thick-billed Murre
- Thrush Nightingale
- Tree Pipit
- Trumpeter Finch
- Tufted Duck
- Tundra Bean Goose
- Tundra Swan
- Twite
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Two-barred Warbler
- Velvet Scoter
- Water Pipit
- Water Rail
- Western Black-eared Wheatear
- Western Bonelli’s Warbler
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western House Martin
- Western Jackdaw
- Western Marsh Harrier
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Subalpine Warbler
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- Whinchat
- Whiskered Tern
- White Stork
- White Wagtail
- White-backed Vulture
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- White-headed Duck
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Eagle
- White-tailed Lapwing
- White-throated Dipper
- White-winged Tern
- Whooper Swan
- Willow Tit
- Willow Warbler
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wood Duck
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Warbler
- Woodchat Shrike
- Woodlark
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-breasted Bunting
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-legged Gull
- Yellowhammer
- Zitting Cisticola
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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 Norfolk?
497 species have been recorded in Norfolk on eBird; 497 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Norfolk 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.