List of Birds of Libya

Nefusa is the name of the hill range inland and south of Tripoli. The Nefusa IBA straddles the lower slopes as well as the higher plateau of the eastern part of the range. The IBA is in the wettest part of the hill range though even here the annual rainfall is only 300-325 mm. This IBA is much better protected than Karabolli probably because there is no commercial pressure for development.

Karabolli is a coastal park 30 kilometers east of Tripoli which mostly consists of garrigue but has some citrus and olive groves as well as cypress woods. It is only 2 kilometers north of the main Tripoli – Misratah road. This is a stretch of the main west-east coast road which crosses the whole country. The park at Karabolli is under some development pressure, particularly for recreational use. It is very accessible to day-trippers from Tripoli.

• Abyssinian roller
• African blue tit
• African desert warbler
• Alpine swift
• Arminian gull
• Arctic tern
• Audouin’s gull
• Baillon’s crake
• Balearic shearwater
• Bank swallow
• Barbary falcon
• Barbary partridge
• Barn owl
• Barn swallow
• Bar-tailed godwit
• Bar-tailed lark
• Black kite
• Black redstart
• Black stork
• Black tern
• Black wheatear
• Black-bellied plover
• Black-bellied sandgrouse
• Black-crowned night heron
• Black-crowned tchagra
• Black-eared wheatear
• Black-headed bunting
• Black-headed gull
• Black-tailed godwit
• Black-winged kite
• Black-winged stilt
• Black-winged stilt
• Blue rock thrush
• Blue-cheeked bee-eater
• Bluethroat
• Blue-winged teal
• Bonelli’s eagle
• Booted eagle
• Brambling
• Brant
• Broad-billed sandpiper
• Brown-necked raven
• Calandra lark
• Cape teal
• Carrion crow
• Caspian plover
• Caspian tern
• Cattle egret
• Cinereous vulture
• Collared flycatcher
• Collared pratincole
•  Common buzzard
• Common chaff-finch
• Common chiffchaff
• Common crane
• Common cuckoo
• Common fire crest
• Common golden-eye
• Common grasshopper warbler
• Common greenshank
• Common house martin
• Common kingfisher
• Common linnet
• Common merganser
• Common nightingale
• Common ostrich
• Common quail
• Common raven
• Common redshank
• Common redstart
• Common rock thrush
• Common sandpiper
• Common scoter
• Common shelduck
• Common snipe
• Common swift
• Common tern
• Common wood pigeon
• Common-ringed plover
• Corn bunting
• Corn crake
• Cream-colored courser
• Crested lark
• Cretzschmar’s bunting
• Crowned sandgrouse
• Curlew sandpiper
• Dartford warbler
• Desert lark
• Desert sparrow
• Desert wheatear
• Dunlin
• Dunnock
• Dupont’s lark
• Eared grebe
• Eastern bonelli’s warbler
• Eastern olivaceous warbler
• Eastern orphean warbler
• Egyptian nightjar
• Egyptian plover
• Egyptian vulture
• Eleonora’s falcon
• Eurasian blackbird
• Eurasian blackcap
• Eurasian blue tit
• Eurasian collared dove
• Eurasian coot
• Eurasian crag-martin
• Eurasian curlew
• Eurasian dotterel
• Eurasian golden oriole
• Eurasian griffon
• Eurasian hobby
• Eurasian hoopoe
• Eurasian jay
• Eurasian kestrel
• Eurasian marsh harrier
• Eurasian moorhen

• Eurasian nightjar
• Eurasian oystercatcher
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Eurasian scops owl
• Eurasian siskin
• Eurasian skylark
• Eurasian sparrow-hawk
• Eurasian spoonbill
• Eurasian thick-knee
• Eurasian wigeon
• Eurasian woodcock
• Eurasian wren
• Eurasian wryneck
• European bee-eater
• European golden plover
• European goldfinch
• European greenfinch
• European honey buzzard
• European pied flycatcher
• European robin
• European roller
• European serin
• European shag
• European starling
• European stonechat
• European storm petrel
• European turtle dove
• Ferruginous teal
• Fieldfare
• Finsch’s wheatear
• Fulvous chatterer
• Gadwall
• Garden warbler
• Garganey
• Glossy ibis
• Goldcrest
• Golden eagle
• Gray heron
• Gray wagtail
• Graylag goose
• Great bittern
• Great cormorant
• Great crested grebe
• Great egret
• Great gray shrike
• Great reed warbler
• Great skua
• Great snipe
• Great white pelican
• Greater flamingo
• Greater hoopoe-lark
• Greater sand-plover
• Greater scaup
• Greater short-toed lark
• Greater white-fronted goose
• Greater whitethroat
• Greater-spotted eagle
• Great-spotted cuckoo
• Green bee-eater
• Green sandpiper
• Green-winged teal
• Gull-billed tern
• Hawfinch
• Hen harrier
• Hooded crow
• Horned grebe
• Houbara bustard
• House bunting
• House sparrow
• Icterine warbler
• Imperial eagle
• Isabelline wheatear
• Jack snipe
• Kentish plover
• Kurdish wheatear
• Lanner falcon
• Lappet-faced vulture
• Laughing dove
• Lesser black-backed gull
• Lesser crested tern
• Lesser gray shrike
• Lesser kestrel
• Lesser sand-plover
• Lesser short-toed lark
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser-spotted eagle
• Little bittern
• Little bustard
• Little crake
• Little egret
• Little grebe
• Little gull
• Little owl
• Little stint
• Little swift
• Little tern
• Little-ringed plover
• Long-eared owl
• Long-legged buzzard
• Mallard
• Marbled teal
• Marmora’s warbler
• Marsh sandpiper
• Masked shrike
• Meadow pipit
• Mediterranean gull
• Melodious warbler
• Merlin
• Mew gull
• Mistle thrush
• Montagu’s harrier
• Mourning wheatear
• Moussier’s redstart
• Moustached warbler
• Mute swan
• Nile valley sunbird
• Northern gannet

• Northern goshawk
• Northern lapwing
• Northern pintail
• Northern shoveler
• Northern wheatear
• Ortolan bunting
• Osprey
• Pallas’s gull
• Pallid harrier
• Pallid swift
• Parasitic jaeger
• Pectoral sandpiper
• Peregrine falcon
• Pharaoh eagle-owl
• Pied avocet
• Pied crow
• Pied kingfisher
• Pied wheatear
• Pin-tailed sandgrouse
• Pomarine jaeger
• Purple heron
• Red crossbill
• Red kite
• Red knot
• Red phalarope
• Red-backed shrike
• Red-breasted flycatcher
• Red-breasted merganser
• Red-crested pochard
• Red-footed falcon
• Red-necked nightjar
• Red-necked phalarope
• Red-rumped swallow
• Red-rumped wheatear
• Red-throated pipit
• Redwing
• Reed bunting
• Ring ouzel
• Rock bunting
• Rock martin
• Rock pigeon
• Rock sparrow
• Roseate tern
• Rose-ringed parakeet
• Rosy starling
• Rough-legged hawk
• Ruddy shelduck
• Ruddy turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
• Ruppell’s warbler
• Saker falcon
• Sanderling
• Sandwich tern
• Sardinian warbler
• Savi’s warbler
• Scopoli’s shearwater
• Sedge warbler
• Short-eared owl
• Short-toed snake-eagle
• Slender-billed curlew
• Slender-billed gull
• Small buttonquail
• Smew
• Song thrush
• Sooty falcon
• Spanish sparrow
• Spectacled warbler
• Spotless starling
• Spotted crake
• Spotted flycatcher
• Spotted redshank
• Spotted sandgrouse
• Spur-winged lapwing
• Squacco heron
• Stock dove
• Streaked scrub warbler
• Striolated bunting
• Striped crake
• Sub-alpine warbler
• Tawny pipit
• Temmnick’s lark
• Temmnick’s stint
• Terek sandpiper
• Thekla lark
• Thick-billed lark
• Thrush nightingale
• Tree pipit
• Tristram’s warbler
• Trumpeter finch
• Tufted duck
• Tundra swan
• Water pipit
• Water rail
• Western bonelli’s warbler
• Western olivaceous warbler
• Western orphean warbler
• Western yellow wagtail
• Whimbrel
• Whinchat
• Whiskered tern
• White stork
• White wagtail
• White-headed duck
• White-tailed lapwing
• White-tailed wheatear
• White-throated dipper
• White-winged tern
• Willow warbler
• Wood lark
• Wood sandpiper
• Wood warbler
• Woodchat shrike
• Yelkouan shearwater
• Yellow-browed warbler
• Yellow-legged gull
• Zitting cisticola

Best time for Birding in Libya

The best time to visit Libya is from March until November when you will have a pleasant till hot temperature and none till limited rainfall. The highest average temperature in Libya is 33°C in July and the lowest is 17°C in January.