Birds to See in Azerbaijan in April
115 species listed for April · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
115 bird species on our list for Azerbaijan are recorded regularly in April. Of these, the most often recorded are Barn Swallow, Common Swift, Pied Wagtail, Hooded Crow and Rock Dove. New this month: Common Swift, Cuckoo, European Bee-eater and Sand Martin and 24 more.
New in April28
- Common Swift
- Cuckoo
- European Bee-eater
- Sand Martin
- Wheatear
- Nightingale
- Hobby
- Wood Sandpiper
- Stock Dove
- Common Tern
- Common Redstart
- Gull-billed Tern
- Purple Heron
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Egyptian Vulture
- Whitethroat
- Alpine Swift
- Tree Pipit
- Common Quail
- Blue Rock-thrush
- Coal Tit
- Whinchat
- Grey Wagtail
- Squacco Heron
- Whimbrel
- Eurasian Scops-owl
- Red-necked Phalarope
Leaving after last month51
- Eurasian Teal
- Great White Egret
- Reed Bunting
- Brambling
- Gadwall
- White-tailed Sea-eagle
- Eurasian Siskin
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Linnet
- Cetti's Warbler
- Mute Swan
- Greylag Goose
- Little Grebe
- Black-necked Grebe
- Water Rail
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Curlew
- Little Gull
- Moustached Warbler
- Common Gull
- Yellowhammer
- Goldeneye
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Fieldfare
- Golden Plover
- Hawfinch
- Redwing
- Bearded Tit
- Greenshank
- Sandwich Tern
- Mistle Thrush
- Great Grey Shrike
- Woodlark
- European Green Woodpecker
- Common Reed-warbler
- Whooper Swan
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Blackcap
- Peregrine Falcon
- Alpine Chough
- Sanderling
- Eurasian Nuthatch
- Short-toed Lark
- Short-eared Owl
- Eurasian Bittern
- Bluethroat
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Northern Goshawk
- Dipper
- Temminck's Stint
Residents
(26)Recorded all year
Pied Wagtail
Motacilla albaLC
Recorded all year
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Recorded all year
Blackbird
Turdus merulaLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year
Western Marsh-harrier
Circus aeruginosusLC
Recorded all year
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelisLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Great Tit
Parus majorLC
Recorded all year
Magpie
Pica picaLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebsLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Common Raven
Corvus coraxLC
Recorded all year
Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleusLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytesLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Great Crested Grebe
Podiceps cristatusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Little Owl
Athene noctuaLC
Recorded all year
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Coot
Fulica atraLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Eurasian Skylark
Alauda arvensisLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Jay
Garrulus glandariusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(20)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Common Swift
Apus apusLC
Regularly Apr–Aug
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Regularly Mar–Sep
Common Redstart
Phoenicurus phoenicurusLC
Regularly Apr–Nov
Buzzard
Buteo buteoLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
European Bee-eater
Merops apiasterLC
Regularly Apr–Aug
Cuckoo
Cuculus canorusLC
Regularly Apr–Aug
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Apr–Sep
House Martin
Delichon urbicumLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Little Ringed Plover
Thinornis dubiusLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchosLC
Regularly Apr–Jul
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Chukar
Alectoris chukarLC
Regularly Jan–Nov
Northern Lapwing
Vanellus vanellusNT
Regularly Feb–Dec
Garganey
Spatula querquedulaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct
Woodpigeon
Columba palumbusLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Cinereous Vulture
Aegypius monachusNT
Regularly Mar–Jan
Alpine Swift
Tachymarptis melbaLC
Regularly Apr–Jul
Winter visitors
(21)Present outside the breeding season
Greenfinch
Chloris chlorisLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Chiffchaff
Phylloscopus collybitaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Recorded all year
Black Redstart
Phoenicurus ochrurosLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Corn Bunting
Emberiza calandraLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Kentish Plover
Charadrius alexandrinusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeataLC
Regularly Aug–May
Rook
Corvus frugilegusLC
Regularly Aug–May
European Robin
Erithacus rubeculaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Pochard
Aythya ferinaVU
Regularly Sep–Jun
Ruddy Shelduck
Tadorna ferrugineaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Common Shelduck
Tadorna tadornaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinagoLC
Regularly Aug–May
Meadow Pipit
Anthus pratensisLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Avocet
Recurvirostra avosettaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Northern Pintail
Anas acutaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Tufted Duck
Aythya fuligulaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Hen Harrier
Circus cyaneusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Passage migrants
(48)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Wheatear
Oenanthe oenantheLC
Regularly Apr–Nov
Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flavaLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Red-billed Chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Water Pipit
Anthus spinolettaLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Ruff
Calidris pugnaxLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Feb–Sep
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvusLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Regularly Apr–Nov
White-winged Tern
Chlidonias leucopterusLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Song Thrush
Turdus philomelosLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Stonechat
Saxicola rubicolaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Egyptian Vulture
Neophron percnopterusEN
Regularly Apr–Sep
Ring Ouzel
Turdus torquatusLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Grey Wagtail
Motacilla cinereaLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Dendrocopos majorLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Passer montanusLC
Regularly Oct–May
Black-tailed Godwit
Limosa limosaNT
Regularly Feb–Dec
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Apr–May
Coal Tit
Periparus aterLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Common Kingfisher
Alcedo atthisLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Golden Eagle
Aquila chrysaetosLC
Regularly Feb–Nov
Jackdaw
Coloeus monedulaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Whitethroat
Curruca communisLC
Regularly Apr–Sep
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Long-tailed Tit
Aegithalos caudatusLC
Regularly Oct–May
Spotted Redshank
Tringa erythropusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Whinchat
Saxicola rubetraLC
Regularly Apr–Sep
Red-crested Pochard
Netta rufinaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Stock Dove
Columba oenasLC
Regularly Apr–Dec
Blue Rock-thrush
Monticola solitariusLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Dunlin
Calidris alpinaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Dunnock
Prunella modularisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Horned Lark
Eremophila alpestrisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Lesser Whitethroat
Curruca currucaLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Tree Pipit
Anthus trivialisLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Apr–May
Common Quail
Coturnix coturnixLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Red-necked Phalarope
Phalaropus lobatusLC
Regularly Apr–Sep
Little Stint
Calidris minutaLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Mediterranean Gull
Ichthyaetus melanocephalusLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Eurasian Scops-owl
Otus scopsLC
Regularly Apr–May
Hobby
Falco subbuteoLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Spotted Flycatcher
Muscicapa striataLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made