Birds in Bangladesh
Our list for Bangladesh has 104 bird species recorded regularly there: 12 residents, 2 summer visitors, 75 winter visitors, 7 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors
The list comes from 590,000 birdwatchers' records from 2019–2024, shared through the eBird Observation Dataset on GBIF. A bird is listed when it was recorded in at least 3 of the 6 years and has a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur here than are listed; the months show when it is recorded most years.
- Species on our list
- 104
- In October
- 68
- Common
- 13
- Busiest month
- Dec
This month: October
GBIF · OctMost likely
Share of all bird records in Bangladesh in October, 2019–2024. “Arriving now” are the birds whose share rises most from last month. Each month links to that month’s page.
The bird calendar for Bangladesh
Month by monthWhen each bird is around, through the year. The darker the square, the closer that month is to the bird’s busiest. Filter by summer or winter visitors to see the seasons turn over.
| Bird | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Rock Dove | ||||||||||||
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | ||||||||||||
| Common Kingfisher | ||||||||||||
| Little Egret | ||||||||||||
| Barn Swallow | ||||||||||||
| Pied Wagtail | ||||||||||||
| Great White Egret | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Collared Dove | ||||||||||||
| Black-crowned Night-heron | ||||||||||||
| Common Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Yellow-browed Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Scaly-breasted Munia | ||||||||||||
| Grey Heron | ||||||||||||
| Spotted Owlet | ||||||||||||
| Hoopoe | ||||||||||||
| Orange-headed Thrush | ||||||||||||
| Little Ringed Plover | ||||||||||||
| Chestnut Munia | ||||||||||||
| Green Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Kestrel | ||||||||||||
| Red Junglefowl | ||||||||||||
| Osprey | ||||||||||||
| Great Cormorant | ||||||||||||
| Greenshank | ||||||||||||
| Wood Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Oriental Honey-buzzard | ||||||||||||
| Little Grebe | ||||||||||||
| Peregrine Falcon | ||||||||||||
| Redshank |
The year in Bangladesh
Records by month| January | 55,607 |
|---|---|
| February | 59,190 |
| March | 59,048 |
| April | 41,215 |
| May | 45,879 |
| June | 27,779 |
| July | 25,561 |
| August | 25,583 |
| September | 33,998 |
| October | 74,064 |
| November | 58,653 |
| December | 83,121 |
December has the most records (83,000). Records follow birdwatchers as well as birds: a busy month means more people out looking, as well as more birds passing through.
By family
12 of 18- Sandpipers & Snipes19
- Ducks, Geese & Swans17
- Gulls & Terns6
- Hawks & Eagles6
- Herons & Egrets5
- Plovers & Lapwings5
- Old World Flycatchers4
- Wagtails & Pipits4
- Falcons3
- Grebes3
- Owls3
- Pigeons & Doves3
All 18 families in Bangladesh
How common
All 104 birds, A to Z
- Avocet
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barn Swallow
- Black Eagle
- Black Redstart
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Blossom-headed Parakeet
- Blue Rock-thrush
- Blue-eared Barbet
- Bluethroat
- Booted Eagle
- Chestnut Munia
- Chiffchaff
- Common Kingfisher
- Common Merganser
- Common Rosefinch
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Shelduck
- Common Snipe
- Common Starling
Show all 104 birds
- Common Tern
- Coot
- Cuckoo
- Curlew
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- Gadwall
- Garganey
- Glossy Ibis
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great White Egret
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenshank
- Grey Heron
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Greylag Goose
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hen Harrier
- Hobby
- Hoopoe
- House Sparrow
- Kentish Plover
- Kestrel
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Mallard
- Moorhen
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Shoveler
- Orange-breasted Green-pigeon
- Orange-headed Thrush
- Oriental Honey-buzzard
- Oriental Scops-owl
- Osprey
- Pacific Golden-Plover
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Wagtail
- Pochard
- Purple Heron
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red-crested Pochard
- Redshank
- Rock Dove
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Short-eared Owl
- Sparrowhawk
- Spotted Owlet
- Spotted Redshank
- Temminck's Stint
- Tree Pipit
- Tufted Duck
- Western Marsh-harrier
- Whimbrel
- White-crested Laughingthrush
- White-tailed Robin
- White-winged Tern
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wryneck
- Yellow Wagtail
- Yellow-browed Warbler
Questions
3How many birds are on Birdfact's list for Bangladesh?
104 species, each recorded regularly in Bangladesh (in at least 3 of the 6 years 2019–2024): 12 residents, 2 summer visitors, 75 winter visitors, 7 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors. The list includes only birds with a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur in Bangladesh, and rarer vagrants are not listed.
What birds can I see in Bangladesh in October?
68 species on our list for Bangladesh are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are House Sparrow, Rock Dove, Pied Wagtail, Rose-ringed Parakeet and Barn Swallow.
What are the most common birds in Bangladesh?
Of the birds on our list, the ones birdwatchers record most often in Bangladesh are House Sparrow, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Rock Dove, Barn Swallow and Pied Wagtail.
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













