Birds to See in Egypt in July
38 species listed for July · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
38 bird species on our list for Egypt are recorded regularly in July. Of these, the most often recorded are House Sparrow, Hooded Crow, Barn Swallow, Rock Dove and Cattle Egret. New this month: Black-headed Gull, Common Sandpiper, Little Stint and Greenshank and 3 more.
Residents
(26)Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Recorded all year
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Recorded all year
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
Kentish Plover
Charadrius alexandrinusLC
Recorded all year
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Recorded all year
Little Bittern
Ixobrychus minutusLC
Recorded all year
Little Owl
Athene noctuaLC
Recorded all year
Pallid Swift
Apus pallidusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Barn Owl
Tyto albaLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(8)Present outside the breeding season
Curlew
Numenius arquataNT
Regularly Jun–Apr
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Little Stint
Calidris minutaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Jul–May
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Passage migrants
(1)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
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