List of Birds of Tunisia

As a birding destination, the country has perhaps been overshadowed by Morocco, which is almost three times the size, has a far larger attitudinal range (owing to the presence of the Atlas Mountains) and, as a consequence, a more varied avifauna, as well as reliable sites for some charismatic or rare North African birds, but Tunisia has several compensatory merits. It is remarkably compact (for example, pristine desert habitats can be reached in just half a day’s drive from the main airport); it is well served by an excellent road network; English and French are widely spoken and there is a broad range of hotels, restaurants, and other amenities even in some of the most remote spots.A variety of environmental zones makes Tunisia an incredibly attractive place for birdwatchers. Most of the 393 species recorded here are of desert origin. You can observe really rare and beautiful birds in this area: Marbled Teal, Ferruginous Duck, and White-headed Duck, You may also come across a unique opportunity to see the American flamingo some of the popular destinations include the Gulf of Gabes and Djerba.

• African blue tit
• African desert warbler
• Allen’s gallinule
• Alpine accentor
• Alpine swift
• American golden plover
• American pipit
• Aquatic warbler
• 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
• Bateleur
• Bearded vulture
• Black redstart
• Black stork
• Black tern
• Black wheatear
• Black-bellied plover
• Black-bellied sandgrouse
• Blackcap
• Black-crowned night-heron
• Black-crowned tchagra
• Black-eared wheatear
• Black-headed bunting
• Black-headed gull
• Black-kite
• Black-legged kittiwake
• Black-tailed godwit
• Black-winged kite
• Black-winged stilt
• Blue rock thrush
• Blue-cheeked bee-eater
• Bluethroat
• Bonelli’s eagle
• Booted eagle
• Brambling
• Brant
• Broad-billed sandpiper
• Brown-necked raven
• Buff-breasted sandpiper
• Calandra lark
• Carrion crow
• Caspian tern
• Cattle egret
• Cetti’s warbler
• Cinerous bunting
• Cirl starling
• Citrine wagtail
• 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 greenshank
• Common gull
• Common house martin
• Common kingfisher
• Common linnet
• Common merganser
• Common nightingale
• Common ostrich
• Common pochard
• 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
• Crowned sandgrouse
• Curlew sandpiper
• Dartford warbler
• Demoiselle crane
• Desert lark
• Desert sparrow
• Desert wheatear
• Dunlin
• Dunnock
• Dupont’s lark
• Eared grebe
• Eastern bonelli’s warbler
• Eastern olivaceous warbler
• Egyptian goose
• Egyptian nightjar
• Egyptian vulture
• Eleonora’s falcon
• Eurasian blackbird
• Eurasian blue tit
• Eurasian bullfinch
• Eurasian collared dove
• Eurasian coot
• Eurasian crag-martin
• Eurasian curlew
• Eurasian dotterel
• Eurasian golden oriole
• Eurasian griffon
• Eurasian hobby
• Eurasian hoopoe
• Eurasian jackdaw
• Eurasian jay
• Eurasian kestrel
• Eurasian marsh-harrier
• Eurasian moorhen

• Eurasian nightjar
• Eurasian oystercatcher
• Eurasian penduline tit
• Eurasian reed warbler
• Eurasian scops 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 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 pochard
• Fieldfare
• Fulvous chatterer
• Gadwall
• Garden warbler
• Garganey
• Glaucous gull
• Glossy ibis
• Goldcrest
• Golden eagle
• Grasshopper warbler
• Gray heron
• Gray wagtail
• Gray-headed 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 skua
• Great snipe
• Great spotted cuckoo
• Great tit
• Great white pelican
• Greater flamingo
• Greater hoopoe-lark
• Greater sand plover
• Greater scaup
• Greater short-toed lark
• Greater spotted eagle
• Greater white-fronted goose
• Greater whitethroat
• Green sandpiper
• Green-winged teal
• Gull-billed tern
• Hawfinch
• Hen harrier
• Hooded crow
• Horned grebe
• Houbara bustard
• House bunting
• House sparrow
• Iberian chiffchaff
• Icterine warbler
• Imperial eagle
• Isabelline wheatear
• Jack snipe
• Kentish plover
• Lanner falcon
• Lappet-faced vulture
• Laughing dove
• Lemon-rumped warbler
• Lesser black-backed gull
• Lesser kestrel
• Lesser short-toed lark
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser-crested tern
• Lesser-spotted eagle
• Lesser-spotted woodpecker
• Levaillant’s woodpecker
• Levant sparrow-hawk
• 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
• Long-tailed duck
• Long-tailed tit
• Maghreb magpie
• Mallard
• Mamora’s warbler
• Manx shearwater
• Marbled teal
• Marsh owl
• Marsh sandpiper
• Marsh warbler
• Meadow pipit
• Mediterranean gull
• Melodious warbler
• Merlin
• Mistie thrush
• Montagu’s harrier
• Mourning wheatear
• Moussier’s redstart
• Moustached warbler
• North African ostrich
• Northern gannet
• Northern goshawk

• Northern lapwing
• Northern pintail
• Northern shoveler
• Northern wheatear
• Ortolan bunting
• Osprey
• Pacific golden-plover
• Pallas’s gull
• Pallid harrier
• Pallid swift
• Parasitic jaeger
• Peregrine falcon
• Pharaoh eagle-owl
• Pied avocet
• Pin-tailed sandgrouse
• Pomarine jaeger
• Purple heron
• Pygmy cormorant
• Razorbill
• Red crossbill
• Red knot
• Red phalarope
• Red-backed shrike
• Red-billed chough
• Red-breasted flycatcher
• Red-breasted merganser
• Red-crested pochard
• Red-footed falcon
• Red-kite
• Red-knobbed coot
• Red-necked grebe
• 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
• Rock bunting
• Rock pigeon
• Rock pipit
• Rock sparrow
• Roseate tern
• Rosy starling
• Rough-legged hawk
• Ruddy shelduck
• Ruddy turnstone
• Ruff
• Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
• Saker falcon
• Sanderling
• Sandwich tern
• Sardinian warbler
• Savi’s warbler
• Scopoli’s shearwater
• Sedge warbler
• Semi-collared flycatcher
• Short-eared owl
• Short-toed snake-eagle
• Short-toed tree-creeper
• Slender-billed curlew
• Slender-billed gull
• Small buttonquail
• Smew
• Sociable lapwing
• Song thrush
• Sooty shearwater
• Sooty tern
• Spanish sparrow
• Spectacled warbler
• Spotless starling
• Spotted crake
• Spotted flycatcher
• Spotted redshank
• Spotted sandgrouse
• Squacco heron
• Steppe eagle
• Stock dove
• Streaked scrub warbler
• Sub-alpine warbler
• 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
• Wahlberg’s eagle
• 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-headed duck
• White-rumped swift
• White-tailed eagle
• White-tailed lapwing
• White-tailed wheatear
• 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-legged gull
• Zitting cisticola

Best time for birding in Tunisia

The best time to watch all these stunning species is from October to February when huge flocks keep arriving. Winter is a perfect time for birding in the Gulf of Gabe’s zone and Djerba. El Haouaria area can be a promising place between March and May.