Birds of the Philippines

746 bird species have been recorded in the Philippines on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 744 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

• Aberrant Bush WarblerHorornis flavolivaceus
• Aleutian TernOnychoprion aleuticus
• Ameline SwiftletAerodramus amelis
• Amethyst Brown DovePhapitreron amethystinus
• Amur Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone incei
• Amur StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
• Apo MynaGoodfellowia miranda
• Apo SunbirdAethopyga boltoni
• Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
• Ashy DrongoDicrurus leucophaeus
• Ashy MinivetPericrocotus divaricatus
• Ashy TailorbirdOrthotomus ruficeps
• Ashy ThrushGeokichla cinerea
• Ashy-breasted FlycatcherMuscicapa randi
• Ashy-fronted BulbulPycnonotus cinereifrons
• Ashy-headed BabblerPellorneum cinereiceps
• Asian Brown FlycatcherMuscicapa dauurica
• Asian DowitcherLimnodromus semipalmatus
• Asian Glossy StarlingAplonis panayensis
• Asian House MartinDelichon dasypus
• Asian KoelEudynamys scolopaceus
• Asian Palm SwiftCypsiurus balasiensis
• Asian StubtailUrosphena squameiceps
• Asian Woolly-necked StorkCiconia episcopus
• Australian PelicanPelecanus conspicillatus
• Azure-breasted PittaPitta steerii
• Baer’s PochardAythya baeri
• Bagobo BabblerLeonardina woodi
• Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
• Baillon’s CrakeZapornia pusilla

The full checklist — 744 birds of the Philippines in our library

• Aberrant Bush Warbler
• Aleutian Tern
• Ameline Swiftlet
• Amethyst Brown Dove
• Amur Paradise Flycatcher
• Amur Stonechat
• Apo Myna
• Apo Sunbird
• Arctic Warbler
• Ashy Drongo
• Ashy Minivet
• Ashy Tailorbird
• Ashy Thrush
• Ashy-breasted Flycatcher
• Ashy-fronted Bulbul
• Ashy-headed Babbler
• Asian Brown Flycatcher
• Asian Dowitcher
• Asian Glossy Starling
• Asian House Martin
• Asian Koel
• Asian Palm Swift
• Asian Stubtail
• Asian Woolly-necked Stork
• Australian Pelican
• Azure-breasted Pitta
• Baer’s Pochard
• Bagobo Babbler
• Baikal Teal
• Baillon’s Crake
• Balicassiao
• Banded Bay Cuckoo
• Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike
• Bar-headed Goose
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Barn Swallow
• Barred Buttonquail
• Barred Rail
• Beach Stone-curlew
• Benguet Bush Warbler
• Besra
• Bicol Ground Warbler
• Bicolored Flowerpecker
• Black Bittern
• Black Bulbul
• Black Drongo
• Black Kite
• Black Noddy
• Black Paradise Flycatcher
• Black Shama
• Black-and-cinnamon Fantail
• Black-and-white Triller
• Black-backed Swamphen
• Black-belted Flowerpecker
• Black-bibbed Cicadabird
• Black-billed Hanging Parrot
• Black-browed Reed Warbler
• Black-capped Kingfisher
• Black-chinned Fruit Dove
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-faced Bunting
• Black-faced Coucal
• Black-faced Spoonbill
• Black-headed Bulbul
• Black-headed Bunting
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-headed Tailorbird
• Black-hooded Coucal
• Black-naped Fruit Dove
• Black-naped Monarch
• Black-naped Oriole
• Black-naped Tern
• Black-necked Grebe
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-tailed Gull
• Black-winged Cuckooshrike
• Black-winged Kite
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blackish Cuckooshrike
• Blue Paradise Flycatcher
• Blue Rock Thrush
• Blue-and-white Flycatcher
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw
• Blue-backed Parrot
• Blue-billed White Tern
• Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher
• Blue-capped Kingfisher
• Blue-crowned Racket-tail
• Blue-eared Kingfisher
• Blue-headed Fantail
• Blue-headed Racket-tail
• Blue-naped Parrot
• Blue-tailed Bee-eater
• Blue-winged Pitta
• Blue-winged Racket-tail
• Bluethroat
• Blyth’s Pipit
• Brahminy Kite
• Brambling
• Brant Goose
• Bridled Tern
• Broad-billed Sandpiper
• Brown Boobook
• Brown Booby
• Brown Noddy
• Brown Shrike
• Brown Tit-Babbler
• Brown-backed Needletail
• Brown-banded Rail
• Brown-breasted Kingfisher
• Brown-eared Bulbul
• Brown-headed Thrush
• Brown-throated Sunbird
• Budgerigar
• Buff-banded Rail
• Buff-spotted Flameback
• Bukidnon Woodcock
• Bulwer’s Petrel
• Bundok Flycatcher
• Buzzing Flowerpecker
• Calabarzon Babbler
• Calayan Rail
• Camiguin Boobook
• Camiguin Bulbul
• Camiguin Hanging Parrot
• Caspian Tern
• Cebu Boobook
• Cebu Flowerpecker
• Celestial Monarch
• Changeable Hawk-Eagle
• Channel-billed Cuckoo
• Chestnut Bunting
• Chestnut Munia
• Chestnut-breasted Malkoha
• Chestnut-capped Thrush
• Chestnut-cheeked Starling
• Chestnut-eared Bunting
• Chestnut-faced Babbler
• Chestnut-tailed Starling
• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo
• Chinese Blackbird
• Chinese Crested Tern
• Chinese Egret
• Chinese Francolin
• Chinese Grosbeak
• Chinese Pond Heron
• Chinese Sparrowhawk
• Chirruping Nightjar
• Chocolate Boobook
• Christmas Frigatebird
• Cinnamon Bittern
• Cinnamon Ibon
• Citrine Canary-flycatcher
• Citrine Wagtail
• Clamorous Reed Warbler
• Cockatiel
• Cocos Booby
• Coleto
• Collared Kingfisher
• Comb-crested Jacana
• Common Buttonquail
• Common Emerald Dove
• Common Greenshank
• Common Gull
• Common Hill Myna
• Common Hoopoe
• Common Iora
• Common Kestrel
• Common Kingfisher
• Common Moorhen
• Common Myna
• Common Pochard
• Common Redshank
• Common Reed Bunting
• Common Ringed Plover
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Shelduck
• Common Snipe
• Common Starling
• Common Tern
• Copper-throated Sunbird
• Coppersmith Barbet
• Cordillera Ground Warbler
• Cotton Pygmy Goose
• Cream-breasted Fruit Dove
• Crested Goshawk
• Crested Honey Buzzard
• Crested Myna
• Crested Serpent Eagle
• Crimson Rosella
• Cryptic Flycatcher
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Dalmatian Pelican
• Dark-sided Flycatcher
• Daurian Redstart
• Daurian Starling
• Demoiselle Crane
• Dimorphic Dwarf Kingfisher
• Dunlin
• Dusky Thrush
• Dusky Warbler
• Eastern Buzzard
• Eastern Cattle Egret
• Eastern Grass Owl
• Eastern Marsh Harrier
• Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
• Eastern Spot-billed Duck
• Eastern Yellow Wagtail
• Edible-nest Swiftlet
• Elegant Imperial Pigeon
• Elegant Tit
• Eurasian Bittern
• Eurasian Coot
• Eurasian Curlew
• Eurasian Goshawk
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Oystercatcher
• Eurasian Siskin
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Sparrowhawk
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Teal
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eurasian Whimbrel
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Eurasian Wryneck
• Everett’s Scops Owl
• Everett’s White-eye
• Eyebrowed Thrush
• Falcated Duck
• Falcated Wren-Babbler
• Far Eastern Curlew
• Ferruginous Duck
• Ferruginous Flycatcher
• Fiery Minivet
• Fire-throated Flowerpecker
• Fischer’s Lovebird
• Flame-breasted Fruit Dove
• Flame-crowned Flowerpecker
• Flame-templed Babbler
• Flaming Sunbird
• Forest Wagtail
• Furtive Flycatcher
• Gadwall
• Garden Sunbird
• Garganey
• Giant Scops Owl
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden-bellied Gerygone
• Golden-crowned Babbler
• Golden-headed Cisticola
• Grand Rhabdornis
• Gray’s Grasshopper Warbler
• Great Cormorant
• Great Crested Grebe
• Great Eared Nightjar
• Great Egret
• Great Frigatebird
• Great Knot
• Great Slaty Woodpecker
• Great-billed Heron
• Greater Coucal
• Greater Crested Tern
• Greater Painted-snipe
• Greater Sand Plover
• Greater Scaup
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Green Imperial Pigeon
• Green Racket-tail
• Green Sandpiper
• Green-backed Tailorbird
• Green-backed Whistler
• Green-faced Parrotfinch
• Grey Heron
• Grey Imperial Pigeon
• Grey Nightjar
• Grey Parrot
• Grey Plover
• Grey Wagtail
• Grey-backed Tailorbird
• Grey-faced Buzzard
• Grey-headed Fish Eagle
• Grey-headed Lapwing
• Grey-headed Lovebird
• Grey-hooded Sunbird
• Grey-rumped Swiftlet
• Grey-rumped Treeswift
• Grey-streaked Flycatcher
• Grey-tailed Tattler
• Grey-throated Martin
• Grey-throated Sunbird
• Greylag Goose
• Guaiabero
• Gull-billed Tern
• Hair-crested Drongo
• Handsome Sunbird
• Hawfinch
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• Himalayan Cuckoo
• Hooded Crane
• House Sparrow
• House Swift
• Ijima’s Leaf Warbler
• Indian Cuckoo
• Indian Peafowl
• Indigo-banded Kingfisher
• Isabela Oriole
• Jacobin Cuckoo
• Japanese Grosbeak
• Japanese Leaf Warbler
• Japanese Night Heron
• Japanese Sparrowhawk
• Japanese Thrush
• Japanese Waxwing
• Java Sparrow
• Javan Pond Heron
• Jerdon’s Baza
• Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
• Kentish Plover
• Kermadec Petrel
• King Quail
• Lanceolated Warbler
• Lapland Longspur
• Large Fig Parrot
• Large Hawk-Cuckoo
• Large-tailed Nightjar
• Laughing Gull
• Lemon-throated Leaf Warbler
• Lesser Adjutant
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Coucal
• Lesser Frigatebird
• Lesser White-fronted Goose
• Light-vented Bulbul
• Lina’s Sunbird
• Little Bronze Cuckoo
• Little Bunting
• Little Curlew
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Gull
• Little Heron
• Little Pied Flycatcher
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Slaty Flycatcher
• Little Stint
• Little Tern
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Long-billed Plover
• Long-tailed Bush Warbler
• Long-tailed Jaeger
• Long-tailed Shrike
• Long-toed Stint
• Lovely Sunbird
• Lowland White-eye
• Luzon Bleeding-heart
• Luzon Boobook
• Luzon Buttonquail
• Luzon Flameback
• Luzon Hornbill
• Luzon Island Thrush
• Luzon Scops Owl
• Luzon Striped Babbler
• Luzon Water Redstart
• Magnificent Sunbird
• Malayan Night Heron
• Malaysian Plover
• Mallard
• Manchurian Bush Warbler
• Mandarin Duck
• Mangrove Blue Flycatcher
• Mangrove Whistler
• Mantanani Scops Owl
• Maroon-naped Sunbird
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Masked Booby
• McGregor’s Cuckooshrike
• Medium Egret
• Melodious Babbler
• Merlin
• Metallic Pigeon
• Metallic-winged Sunbird
• Middendorff’s Grasshopper Warbler
• Mindanao Bleeding-heart
• Mindanao Blue Fantail
• Mindanao Boobook
• Mindanao Brown Dove
• Mindanao Cuckooshrike
• Mindanao Heleia
• Mindanao Hornbill
• Mindanao Island Thrush
• Mindanao Miniature Babbler
• Mindanao Pygmy Babbler
• Mindanao Racket-tail
• Mindanao Scops Owl
• Mindanao Serin
• Mindoro Bleeding-heart
• Mindoro Boobook
• Mindoro Bulbul
• Mindoro Cuckooshrike
• Mindoro Hornbill
• Mindoro Imperial Pigeon
• Mindoro Island Thrush
• Mindoro Racket-tail
• Mindoro Scops Owl
• Mongolian Gull
• Montane Racket-tail
• Mountain Shrike
• Mountain Tailorbird
• Mugimaki Flycatcher
• Muscovy Duck
• Naked-faced Spiderhunter
• Nankeen Night Heron
• Narcissus Flycatcher
• Naumann’s Thrush
• Nazca Booby
• Negros Bleeding-heart
• Negros Leaf Warbler
• Negros Scops Owl
• Negros Striped Babbler
• Nicobar Pigeon
• Nordmann’s Greenshank
• Northern Boobook
• Northern Lapwing
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Silvery Kingfisher
• Northern Sooty Woodpecker
• Olive-backed Flowerpecker
• Olive-backed Pipit
• Olive-capped Flowerpecker
• Olive-winged Bulbul
• Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
• Orange-tufted Spiderhunter
• Oriental Cuckoo
• Oriental Darter
• Oriental Dollarbird
• Oriental Hobby
• Oriental Plover
• Oriental Pratincole
• Oriental Reed Warbler
• Oriental Skylark
• Oriental Turtle Dove
• Osprey
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Pacific Reef Heron
• Pacific Swallow
• Pacific Swift
• Paddyfield Pipit
• Palawan Blue Flycatcher
• Palawan Bulbul
• Palawan Crow
• Palawan Drongo
• Palawan Fairy-bluebird
• Palawan Flowerpecker
• Palawan Flycatcher
• Palawan Frogmouth
• Palawan Hornbill
• Palawan Peacock-Pheasant
• Palawan Scops Owl
• Palawan Striped Babbler
• Palawan Sunbird
• Palawan Tit
• Pale Spiderhunter
• Pale Thrush
• Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
• Pallas’s Reed Bunting
• Palm Cockatoo
• Panay Striped Babbler
• Pechora Pipit
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Peregrine Falcon
• Pheasant-tailed Jacana
• Philippine Bulbul
• Philippine Bush Warbler
• Philippine Collared Dove
• Philippine Coucal
• Philippine Cuckoo-Dove
• Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo
• Philippine Duck
• Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher
• Philippine Eagle
• Philippine Eagle-Owl
• Philippine Fairy-bluebird
• Philippine Falconet
• Philippine Frogmouth
• Philippine Green Pigeon
• Philippine Hanging Parrot
• Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo
• Philippine Hawk-Eagle
• Philippine Honey Buzzard
• Philippine Jungle Crow
• Philippine Jungle Flycatcher
• Philippine Leaf Warbler
• Philippine Leafbird
• Philippine Magpie-Robin
• Philippine Megapode
• Philippine Nightjar
• Philippine Oriole
• Philippine Pied Fantail
• Philippine Pitta
• Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker
• Philippine Scops Owl
• Philippine Serpent Eagle
• Philippine Shortwing
• Philippine Spinetail
• Philippine Swamphen
• Philippine Swiftlet
• Philippine Trogon
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Bush Chat
• Pied Harrier
• Pied Heron
• Pied Imperial Pigeon
• Pied Stilt
• Pied Triller
• Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
• Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon
• Pink-necked Green Pigeon
• Pinsker’s Hawk-Eagle
• Plain Bush-hen
• Plaintive Cuckoo
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Purple Heron
• Purple Needletail
• Purple-throated Sunbird
• Pygmy Flowerpecker
• Pygmy Swiftlet
• Radde’s Warbler
• Rainbow Bee-eater
• Red Avadavat
• Red Collared Dove
• Red Crossbill
• Red Junglefowl
• Red Knot
• Red-backed Shrike
• Red-billed Starling
• Red-breasted Flycatcher
• Red-eared Parrotfinch
• Red-flanked Bluetail
• Red-footed Booby
• Red-headed Flameback
• Red-keeled Flowerpecker
• Red-legged Crake
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-necked Stint
• Red-tailed Tropicbird
• Red-throated Pipit
• Red-throated Thrush
• Red-vented Cockatoo
• Richard’s Pipit
• Ridgetop Swiftlet
• Rock Dove
• Romblon Boobook
• Rook
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Roseate Tern
• Rosy Starling
• Rosy-faced Lovebird
• Rough-crested Malkoha
• Ruddy Kingfisher
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruddy-breasted Crake
• Ruff
• Rufous Coucal
• Rufous Hornbill
• Rufous Paradise Flycatcher
• Rufous-backed Dwarf Kingfisher
• Rufous-bellied Eagle
• Rufous-breasted Blue Flycatcher
• Rufous-crowned Bee-eater
• Rufous-fronted Tailorbird
• Rufous-headed Tailorbird
• Rufous-lored Kingfisher
• Rufous-tailed Tailorbird
• Rustic Bunting
• Rusty-crowned Babbler
• Ryukyu Scops Owl
• Sacred Kingfisher
• Salmon-crested Cockatoo
• Samar Crow
• Samar Hornbill
• Sand Martin
• Sanderling
• Saunders’s Gull
• Scale-feathered Malkoha
• Scaly-breasted Munia
• Scarlet Minivet
• Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Shikra
• Short-crested Monarch
• Short-eared Owl
• Short-tailed Drongo
• Short-tailed Shearwater
• Short-tailed Starling
• Siberian Blue Robin
• Siberian House Martin
• Siberian Pipit
• Siberian Rubythroat
• Siberian Sand Plover
• Sierra Madre Crow
• Sierra Madre Ground Warbler
• Singing Bush Lark
• Slaty-backed Gull
• Slaty-backed Jungle Flycatcher
• Slaty-breasted Rail
• Slaty-legged Crake
• Sooty Tern
• Southern Silvery Kingfisher
• Southern Sooty Woodpecker
• Speckled Reed Warbler
• Spoon-billed Sandpiper
• Spot-throated Flameback
• Spotless Crake
• Spotted Buttonquail
• Spotted Dove
• Spotted Imperial Pigeon
• Spotted Kestrel
• Spotted Redshank
• Spotted Wood Kingfisher
• Spotted Wood Owl
• Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo
• Stejneger’s Scoter
• Stork-billed Kingfisher
• Streak-breasted Bulbul
• Streaked Shearwater
• Striated Grassbird
• Striated Wren-Babbler
• Stripe-breasted Rhabdornis
• Stripe-headed Rhabdornis
• Sulphur-bellied Bulbul
• Sulphur-billed Nuthatch
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
• Sulu Boobook
• Sulu Cuckooshrike
• Sulu Hornbill
• Sulu Jungle Flycatcher
• Sulu Pygmy Woodpecker
• Sunda Brush Cuckoo
• Sunda Thrush
• Swan Goose
• Swinhoe’s Snipe
• Tablas Drongo
• Tablas Fantail
• Tahiti Petrel
• Taiga Bean Goose
• Taiga Flycatcher
• Taiwan Green Pigeon
• Tanimbar Corella
• Tawitawi Brown Dove
• Tawny Grassbird
• Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch
• Tboli Sunbird
• Temminck’s Stint
• Terek Sandpiper
• Thick-billed Flowerpecker
• Thick-billed Green Pigeon
• Tibetan Sand Plover
• Tiger Shrike
• Tufted Duck
• Tundra Bean Goose
• Tundra Swan
• Turquoise Flycatcher
• Vega Gull
• Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
• Ventriloquial Oriole
• Violet Cuckoo
• Visayan Babbler
• Visayan Blue Fantail
• Visayan Broadbill
• Visayan Bulbul
• Visayan Cuckooshrike
• Visayan Fantail
• Visayan Hornbill
• Visayan Miniature Babbler
• Visayan Pygmy Babbler
• Visayan Rhabdornis
• Visayan Shama
• Visayan Tailorbird
• Von Schrenck’s Bittern
• Walden’s Hornbill
• Wandering Whistling Duck
• Warbling White-eye
• Watercock
• Wattled Broadbill
• Wedge-tailed Shearwater
• Western Hooded Pitta
• Whiskered Flowerpecker
• Whiskered Pitta
• Whiskered Tern
• Whiskered Treeswift
• White Cockatoo
• White Wagtail
• White-bellied Munia
• White-bellied Sea Eagle
• White-bellied Woodpecker
• White-breasted Waterhen
• White-breasted Woodswallow
• White-browed Crake
• White-browed Jungle Flycatcher
• White-browed Shama
• White-cheeked Bullfinch
• White-cheeked Starling
• White-eared Brown Dove
• White-eared Tailorbird
• White-fronted Tit
• White-lored Oriole
• White-shouldered Starling
• White-tailed Tropicbird
• White-throated Jungle Flycatcher
• White-throated Needletail
• White-vented Shama
• White-vented Whistler
• White-winged Cuckooshrike
• White-winged Tern
• White’s Thrush
• Whitehead’s Swiftlet
• Willow Warbler
• Wood Sandpiper
• Writhed Hornbill
• Yellow Bittern
• Yellow Bunting
• Yellow-bellied Whistler
• Yellow-breasted Bunting
• Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove
• Yellow-breasted Tailorbird
• Yellow-breasted Warbler
• Yellow-browed Bunting
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Yellow-collared Lovebird
• Yellow-crested Cockatoo
• Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker
• Yellow-faced Flameback
• Yellow-throated Leafbird
• Yellow-vented Bulbul
• Yellow-wattled Bulbul
• Yellowish Bulbul
• Yellowish White-eye
• Zamboanga Bulbul
• Zebra Dove
• Zitting Cisticola

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Birds of the Philippines by bird group

• Old World Flycatchers & Chats of the Philippines (42 species)
• Sandpipers & Allies of the Philippines (37 species)
• Pigeons & Doves of the Philippines (34 species)
• Ducks, Geese & Swans of the Philippines (32 species)
• Parrots, Cockatoos & Allies of the Philippines (31 species)
• Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of the Philippines (26 species)
• Hawks, Eagles & Kites of the Philippines (26 species)
• Cuckoos of the Philippines (25 species)
• Owls of the Philippines (24 species)
• Herons, Egrets & Bitterns of the Philippines (22 species)
• Starlings & Mynas of the Philippines (19 species)
• Sunbirds of the Philippines (19 species)
• Rails, Crakes & Coots of the Philippines (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.