Birds to See in Egypt in June
39 species listed for June · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
39 bird species on our list for Egypt are recorded regularly in June. Of these, the most often recorded are House Sparrow, Hooded Crow, Rock Dove, Barn Swallow and Hoopoe. New this month: Curlew.
New in June1
Leaving after last month41
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Yellow Wagtail
- Black-headed Gull
- Sparrowhawk
- Ringed Plover
- Buzzard
- Tree Pipit
- Willow Warbler
- Common Sandpiper
- Spotted Flycatcher
- European Honey-buzzard
- Coot
- Little Stint
- Great White Egret
- Wheatear
- Ruff
- Wood Sandpiper
- House Martin
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Greenshank
- Whinchat
- Sedge Warbler
- Common Redstart
- Booted Eagle
- White-winged Tern
- Woodchat Shrike
- Egyptian Vulture
- Whimbrel
- Little Tern
- Golden Oriole
- Grey Plover
- Whitethroat
- Common Tern
- Avocet
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Sandwich Tern
- Temminck's Stint
- Oriental Honey-buzzard
- European Pied Flycatcher
- Garden Warbler
- Eleonora's Falcon
Residents
(26)Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornixLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Recorded all year
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Kestrel
Falco tinnunculusLC
Recorded all year
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Recorded all year
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year
Moorhen
Gallinula chloropusLC
Recorded all year
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Recorded all year
Pallid Swift
Apus pallidusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Recorded all year
Little Bittern
Ixobrychus minutusLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Recorded all year
Kentish Plover
Charadrius alexandrinusLC
Recorded all year
Little Owl
Athene noctuaLC
Recorded all year
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
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseusLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Hooded Wheatear
Oenanthe monachaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Western Marsh-harrier
Circus aeruginosusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Blackbird
Turdus merulaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Curlew
Numenius arquataNT
Regularly Jun–Apr
Great Grey Shrike
Lanius excubitorLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Eurasian Spoonbill
Platalea leucorodiaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Passage migrants
(2)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