List of birds of Morocco

Our Morocco birding tour is designed for bird enthusiasts visiting Morocco for the first time. The tour starts in the interesting city of Marrakesh. From there we will enjoy birding as we cross the mighty Atlas Mountains and huge pre-desert valleys towards the outstanding immensity of the Sahara desert. A fantastic combination of the best birding areas in Morocco with outstanding scenic views, amazing food, and a bit of cultural immersion is a must-do for traveling wanting to experience the true experience of morocco.

• Abyssinian roller
• Abyssinian wheatear
• African blue tit
• African darter
• African desert warbler
• African reed warbler
• African skimmer
• Allen’s gallinule
• Alpine accentor
• Alpine swift
• American golden plover
• American wigeon
• Aquatic warbler
• Arabian bustard
• Arctic loon
• Arctic tern
• Atlantic puffin
• Atlas flycatcher
• Audouin’s gull
• Baillon’s crake
• Baird’s sandpiper
• Balearic shearwater
• Bamacle goose
• Band-rumped storm petrel
• Bank swallow
• Barbary partridge
• Barn owl
• Barn swallow
• Barolo shearwater
• Bar-tailed godwit
• Bar-tailed lark
• Bearded reedling
• Bearded vulture
• Black kite
• Black redstart
• Black stork
• Black tern
• Black wheatear
• Black-bellied plover
• Black-bellied sandgrouse
• Black-browed albatross
• Black-capped petrel
• Black-crowned night-heron
• Black-crowned sparrow-lark
• Black-crowned tchagra
• Black-eared wheatear
• Black-headed bunting
• Black-headed gull
• Black-legged kittiwake
• Black-tailed godwit
• Black-winged kite
• Black-winged pratincole
• Black-winged stilt
• Blue rock thrush
• Blue throat
• Blue-cheeked bee-eater
• Blue-winged teal
• Bonaparte’s gull
• Bonelli’s eagle
• Booted eagle
• Brambling
• Brant
• Bridled tern
• Broad-billed sandpiper
• Brown booby
• Brown noddy
• Brown-necked raven
• Buff-breasted sandpiper
• Bulwer’s petrel
• Calandra lark
• Cape gannet
• Cape shoveler
• Cape verde shearwater
• Carrion craw
• Caspian tern
• Cattle egret
• Cetti’s warbler
• Cinereous vulture
• Cirl bunting
• Citril finch
• Citrine wagtail
• Coal tit
• Collard flycatcher
• Collared pratincole
• Common bulbul
• Common buzzard
• Common chat-finch
• Common chiff-chaff
• 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 rose-finch
• 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
• Crested tit
• Cricket longtail
• Crimson-winged finch
• Crowned sandgrouse
• Curlew sandpiper
• Dark-chanting goshawk
• Dartford warbler
• Demoiselle crane
• Desert lark
• Desert sparrow
• Desert wheatear
• Double-spurred francolin
• Dovekie
• Dunlin
• Dunn’s lark
• Dunnock
• Dupont’s lark
• Dusky warbler
• Eared grebe
• Eastern olivaceous warbler
• Egyptian nightjar
• Egyptian vulture
• Eleonora’s falcon
• Eurasian blackbird
• Eurasian blackcap
• Eurasian bull-finch
• Eurasian collard 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 marsh harrier
• Eurasian moorhen

• Eurasian nightjar
• Eurasian nuthatch
• Eurasian oystercatcher
• Eurasian penduline tit
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Eurasian scop’s owl
• Eurasian siskin
• Eurasian skylark
• Eurasian sparrow-hawk
• Eurasian spoonbill
• Eurasian thick-knee
• Eurasian tree sparrow
• Eurasian wigeon
• Eurasian woodcock
• Eurasian wren
• Eurasian wryneck
• European bee-eater
• European golden-plover
• European goldfinch
• European green finch
• European honey buzzard
• European pied flycatcher
• European robin
• European roller
• European serin
• European shag
• European starling
• European stonechat
• European storm petrel
• European turtle dove
• Eye-browed thrush
• Ferruginous duck
• Fieldfare
• Franklin’s gull
• Fulvous chatterer
• Fulvous whistling duck
• Gadwall
• Garden warbler
• Garganey
• Glaucous gull
• Glaucous-winged gull
• Glossy ibis
• Goldcrest
• Golden eagle
• Golden nightjar
• 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 knot
• Great reed warbler
• Great shearwater
• Great skua
• Great snipe
• Great spotted cuckoo
• Great tit
• Great white pelican
• Greater flamingo
• Greater hoopoe-lark
• Greater painted-snipe
• Greater sand-plover
• Greater scaup
• Greater short-toed lark
• Greater spotted eagle
• Greater white-fronted goose
• Greater whitethroat
• Greater yellowlegs
• Great-spotted woodpecker
• Green sandpiper
• Green-winged teal
• Gull-billed tern
• Hawfinch
• Helmeted guineafowl
• Hen harrier
• Herring gull
• Hooded vulture
• Horned grebe
• Horned lark
• Houbara bustard
• House bunting
• House sparrow
• Hume’s warbler
• Iberian chiffchaff
• Iberian gray shrike
• Iceland gull
• Icterine warbler
• Imperial eagle
• Isabelline wheatear
• Jack snipe
• Kelp gull
• Kentish plover
• Kitilitz’s plover
• Lanner falcon
• Lappet-faced vulture
• Laughing dove
• Laughing gull
• Leach’s storm petrel
• Lesser black-backed gull
• Lesser crested tern
• Lesser flamingo
• Lesser kestrel
• Lesser scaup
• Lesser short-toed lark
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser yellowlegs
• Lesser-spotted eagle
• Levaillant’s woodpecker
• Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
• Little bittern
• Little bustard
• Little crake
• Little egret
• Little grebe
• Little gull
• Little owl
• Little stint
• Little swift
• Little tern
• Little-ringed plover
• Long-billed dowitcher
• Long-eared owl
• Long-legged buzzard
• Long-tailed cormorant
• Long-tailed duck
• Long-tailed jaeger
• Long-tailed tit
• Maghreb lark
• Maghreb magpie
• Mallard
• Mamora’s warbler
• Mandarin duck
• Manx shearwater
• Marbled teal
• Marsh owl
• Marsh sandpiper
• Marsh warbler
• Masked booby
• 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
• North African ostrich
• Northern bald ibis
• Northern fulmar
• Northern gannet

• Northern goshawk
• Northern lapwing
• Northern pintail
• Northern shoveler
• Northern wheatear
• Olive-backed pipit
• Ortolan bunting
• Osprey
• Pacific golden-plover
• Pallas grasshopper warbler
• Pallas’s leaf warbler
• Pallid harrier
• Pallid swift
• Parasitic jaeger
• Pectoral sandpiper
• Peregrine falcon
• Pharaoh eagle owl
• Pied avocet
• Pied crow
• Pin-tailed sandgrouse
• Plain martin
• Plain swift
• Pomarine jaeger
• Purple heron
• Purple sandpiper
• Razorbill
• Red cross-bill
• Red kite
• Red knot
• Red phalarope
• Red-backed shrike
• Red-billed chough
• Red-billed gull
• Red-breasted flycatcher
• Red-breasted merganser
• Red-crested pochard
• Red-footed falcon
• Red-knobbed coot
• Red-necked nightjar
• Red-necked phalarope
• Red-rumped swallow
• Red-rumped wheatear
• Red-throated loon
• Red-throated pipit
• Redwing
• Reed bunting
• Richard’s pipit
• Ring ouzei
• Ring-billed gull
• Ring-necked duck
• Ring-necked pheasant
• River warbler
• Rock bunting
• Rock martin
• Rock pigeon
• Rock pipit
• Rock sparrow
• Roseate tern
• Rose-ringed parakeet
• Rosy starling
• Royal tern
• Ruddy duck
• Ruddy shelduck
• Ruddy turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous-tailed rock thrush
• Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
• Ruppell’s griffon
• Sabine’s gull
• Saker falcon
• Sanderling
• Sandwich tern
• Sardinian warbler
• Savi’s warbler
• Scrub warbler
• Sedge warbler
• Semi-palmated sandpiper
• Short-eared owl
• Short-toed snake-eagle
• Short-toed tree-creeper
• Slender-billed curlew
• Slender-billed gull
• Small buttonquail
• Smew
• Snow bunting
• Snow goose
• Sociable lapwing
• Song thrush
• Sooty falcon
• Sooty shearwater
• Sooty tern
• Sora
• Spanish eagle
• Spanish sparrow
• Spectacled warbler
• Spotless starling
• Spotted crake
• Spotted flycatcher
• Spotted redshank
• Spotted sandgrouse
• Spotted sandpiper
• Spur-winged goose
• Squacco heron
• Steppe eagle
• Stilt sandpiper
• Stock dove
• Sub-alpine warbler
• Sudan golden sparrow
• Taiga-bean goose
• Tawny eagle
• Tawny owl
• Tawny pipit
• Temmnick’s lark
• Temmnick’s stint
• Terek sandpiper
• Thekla lark
• Thick-billed lark
• Tree pipit
• Tristram’s warbler
• Trumpeter finch
• Tufted duck
• Wall creeper
• Water pipit
• Water rail
• Western bonelli warbler
• Western olivaceous lark
• Western orphean warbler
• Western reef heron
• Western swamphen
• Western yellow wagtail
• Whimbrel
• Whinchat
• Whiskered tern
• White stork
• White wagtail
• White-crowned wheatear
• White-faced storm petrel
• White-headed duck
• White-rumped sandpiper
• White-rumped swift
• White-tailed eagle
• White-tailed lapwing
• White-throated dipper
• White-winged tern
• Whooper swan
• Willow warbler
• Wilson’s phalarope
• Wilson’s storm petrel
• Wood duck
• Wood lark
• Wood sandpiper
• Wood warbler
• Woodchat shrike
• Yelkouan shearwater
• Yellow hammer
• Yellow-billed cuckoo
• Yellow-billed stork
• Yellow-browed warbler
• Yellow-legged gull
• Zitting cisticola

Best time for birding in Morocco

Morocco is a bird watcher’s delight. The coastal wetlands of Oualidia and the Souss-Massa National Park are ideal for spotting migrant species in October and March-April, while mountain areas abound with raptors like golden eagles and Egyptian vultures. Although we do not offer specific bird watching holidays we will be happy to provide advice and suggestions.