List of Birds of Algeria

Algeria is a vast country with a range of different habitat types offering shelter and sustenance for a wide variety of birds and other wildlife. With the southern region of Algeria consisting mainly of desert, the majority of the thirty-one documented Important Bird Areas (IBA) are found along the coastline and in the mountainous northern regions of the country. In fact, twenty-three IBAs are found in the Toll Atlas region, and with six IBAs in the El Kala region, east of Annaba and near the coastline, this is a popular area for birding enthusiasts. Lying to the south of the town of Constantine, the wetlands of Chotts Constantinos include five IBAs and are also worthwhile sites for bird watchers to visit.

• African blue-tit
• African desert warbler
• African pipit
• African reed warbler
• African silverbill
• Algerian nuthatch
• Allen’s gallinule
• Alpine accentor
• Alpine swift
• Aquatic warbler
• Arabian bustard
• Arctic loon
• Arctic tern
• Atlantic puffin
• Atlas flycatcher
• Audouin’s gull
• Baillon’s crake
• Balearic shearwater
• Bank swallow
• Barbary falcon
• Barbary partridge
• Barn owl
• Barn swallow
• Barnacle goose
• Bar-tailed godwit
• Bar-tailed lark
• Bearded reedling
• Bearded vulture
• Black kite
• Black redstart
• Black scrub-robin
• Black stork
• Black tern
• Black wheatear
• Black-bellied plover
• Black-bellied sandgrouse
• Black-crowned night heron
• Black-crowned sparrow-lark
• Black-crowned tchagra
• Black-eared wheatear
• Black-headed bunting
• Black-headed heron
• Black-legged kittiwake
• Black-tailed godwit
• Black-winged kite
• Black-winged stilt
• Blue rock-thrush
• Blue-cheeked bee-eater
• Blue-napped mouse-bird
• Bluethroat
• Blue-winged teal
• Bohemian waxwing
• Bonelli’s eagle
• Booted eagle
• Brambling
• Brant
• Brown-necked raven
• Calandra lark
• Carrion crow
• Caspian gull
• Caspian tern
• Cattle egret
• Cetti’s warbler
• Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
• Cinereous vulture
• Cirl bunting
• Citril-finch
• Coal tit
• Collared flycatcher
• Collared pratincole
• Common bulbul
• Common buzzard
• Common chaffinch
• Common chiffchaff
• Common crane
• Common cuckoo
• Common fire-crest
• Common golden-eye
• Common grasshopper-warbler
• Common greenshank
• Common house-martin
• Common kingfisher
• Common loon
• Common merganser
• Common murre
• Common nightingale
• Common ostrich
• Common pochard
• Common quail
• Common raven
• Common redshank
• Common redstart
• Common ringed plover
• Common sandpiper
• Common scoter
• Common shelduck
• Common snipe
• Common swift
• Common tern
• Common wood pigeon
• Corn bunting
• Corn crake
• Cory’s shearwater
• Cream-colored courser
• Crested lark
• Cretzschmar’s bunting
• Crimson-winged finch
• Crowned sandgrouse
• Curlew sandpiper
• Dalmatian pelican
• Dartford warbler
• Demoiselle crane
• Desert lark
• Desert sparrow
• Desert wheatear
• Dunlin
• Dunnock
• Dupont’s lark
• Eared grebe
• Eastern olivaceous warbler
• Egyptian goose
• Egyptian nightjar
• Egyptian vulture
• Eleonora’s falcon
• Eurasian blackbird
• Eurasian blackcap
• Eurasian bullfinch
• Eurasian collared-dove
• Eurasian coot
• Eurasian crag-martin
• Eurasian curlew
• Eurasian dotterel
• Eurasian eagle-owl
• Eurasian golden oriole
• Eurasian griffon
• Eurasian hobby
• Eurasian hoopoe
• Eurasian jackdaw
• Eurasian jay
• Eurasian kestrel
• Eurasian linnet
• Eurasian magpie
• Eurasian marsh-harrier

• Eurasian moorhen
• Eurasian nightjar
• Eurasian oystercatcher
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Eurasian scops owl
• Eurasian shag
• Eurasian siskin
• Eurasian skylark
• Eurasian sparrow-hawk
• Eurasian spoonbill
• Eurasian thick-knee
• Eurasian tree sparrow
• Eurasian wigeon
• Eurasian woodcock
• Eurasian wren
• European bee-eater
• European golden-plover
• European goldfinch
• European greenfinch
• European honey buzzard
• European pied flycatcher
• European robin
• European roller
• European serin
• European starling
• European stonechat
• European storm petrel
• European turtle-dove
• European wryneck
• Ferruginous duck
• Fieldfare
• Fulvous chatterer
• Gadwall
• Garden warbler
• Garganey
• Glossy ibis
• Goldcrest
• Golden eagle
• Gray heron
• Gray heron
• Gray wagtail
• Gray-hooded gull
• Graylag goose
• Great bittern
• Great black-backed gull
• Great bustard
• Great cormorant
• Great crested grebe
• Great egret
• Great gray shrike
• Great reed warbler
• Great shearwater
• Great skua
• Great snipe
• Great tit
• Great white pelican
• Greater flamingo
• Greater hoopoe-lark
• Greater scaup
• Greater short-toed lark
• Greater spotted-eagle
• Greater white-fronted goose
• Greater whitethroat
• Great-spotted cuckoo
• Great-spotted woodpecker
• Green sandpiper
• Green-winged teal
• Gull-billed tern
• Hawfinch
• Hen harrier
• Horned grebe
• Horned lark
• Houbara bustard
• House bunting
• House sparrow
• Iberian chiffchaff
• Icterine warbler
• Imperial eagle
• Indian silverbill
• Isabelline wheatear
• Italian sparrow
• Jack snipe
• Kentish plover
• Lanner falcon
• Lapland longspur
• Lappet-faced vulture
• Laughing dove
• Leach’s storm petrel
• Lesser black-backed gull
• Lesser crested tern
• Lesser flamingo
• Lesser kestrel
• Lesser short-toed lark
• Lesser spotted eagle
• Lesser white-fronted goose
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser-spotted woodpecker
• Levaillant’s woodpecker
• Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
• 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-eared owl
• Long-legged buzzard
• Maghreb lark
• Maghreb magpie
• Mallard
• Marbled teal
• Marmora’s warbler
• Marsh owl
• Marsh sandpiper
• Marsh warbler
• Masked shrike
• Meadow pipit
• Mediterranean gull
• Melodious warbler
• Merlin
• Mew gull
• Mistie thrush
• Moltoni’s warbler
• Montagu’s harrier
• Mourning wheatear
• Moussier’s redstart
• Moustached warbler
• Mute-swan
• Namaqua dove
• Northern bald ibis
• Northern gannet
• Northern goshawk
• Northern lapwing
• Northern pintail
• Northern shoveler
• Northern wheatear
• Olive-tree warbler

• Ortolan bunting
• Osprey
• Pacific golden-plover
• Pallid harrier
• Pallid swift
• Parasitic jaeger
• Pectoral sandpiper
• Peregrine falcon
• Pharaoh eagle-owl
• Pied avocet
• Pied crow
• Pin-tailed sandgrouse
• Plain martin
• Pomarine jaeger
• Purple heron
• Pygmy cormorant
• Razorbill
• Red crossbill
• Red kite
• Red-backed shrike
• Red-billed chough
• Red-billed firefinch
• Red-breasted flycatcher
• Red-breasted goose
• Red-breasted merganser
• Red-chested pochard
• Red-footed falcon
• Red-knobbed coot
• Red-knot
• Red-legged partridge
• Red-necked duck
• Red-necked grebe
• Red-necked nightjar
• Red-necked phalarope
• Red-rumped swallow
• Red-rumped wheatear
• Red-tailed shrike
• Red-throated loon
• Red-throated pipit
• Redwing
• Reed bunting
• Richard’s pipit
• Ring ouzel
• Ring-necked pheasant
• River warbler
• Rock bunting
• Rock martin
• Rock pigeon
• Rock pipit
• Rock sparrow
• Rook
• Roseate tern
• Rose-ringed parakeet
• Rosy starling
• Ruddy duck
• Ruddy shelduck
• Ruddy turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous-tailed rock thrush
• Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
• Ruppell’s warbler
• Rustic bunting
• Sabine’s gull
• Sanderling
• Sandwich tern
• Sardinian warbler
• Savi’s warbler
• Scrub warbler
• Sedge warbler
• Short-eared owl
• Short-toed snake-eagle
• Slender-billed curlew
• Slender-billed gull
• Small buttonquail
• Smew
• Snow bunting
• Song thrush
• Sooty falcon
• Sooty shearwater
• Spanish eagle
• Spanish sparrow
• Spectacled warbler
• Spotless starling
• Spotted crake
• Spotted flycatcher
• Spotted redshank
• Spotted sandgrouse
• Squacco heron
• Stock dove
• Striolated bunting
• Striped crake
• Sub-alpine warbler
• Sudan golden sparrow
• Taiga bean-goose
• Tawny eagle
• Tawny owl
• Tawny pipit
• Temmnick’s lark
• Temmnick’s stint
• Thekla’s lark
• Thick-billed lark
• Tree pipit
• Tristram’s warbler
• Trumpeter finch
• Tufted duck
• Tundra swan
• Velvet scoter
• Verreaux’s eagle
• Wall creeper
• Water pipit
• Water rail
• Western bonelli’s warbler
• Western olivaceous warbler
• Western orphean warbler
• Western reef heron
• Western swamphen
• Western yellow wagtail
• Whimbrel
• Whinchat
• Whiskered tern
• White stork
• White wagtail
• White-crowned wheatear
• White-headed duck
• White-rumped seedeater
• White-tailed eagle
• White-tailed lapwing
• White-throated dipper
• White-winged tern
• Whooper swan
• Willow warbler
• Wilson’s storm petrel
• Wood lark
• Wood sandpiper
• Wood warbler
• Woodchat shrike
• Yelkouan shearwater
• Yellow-billed stork
• Yellow-browed warbler
• Yellowhammer
• Yellow-legged gull
• Zitting cisticola

Best time for Birding of Algeria

The best time to visit Algeria is the months of March and those between October and November when the days are cool and sunny. Even mid-winter can be a good time, even if the desert night temperatures are extremely low.