Birds in Greece
258 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Greece has 258 bird species recorded regularly there: 88 residents, 60 summer visitors, 71 winter visitors, 33 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 1.5 million 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.
Birds to see in Greece in September
206 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.
Eurasian Collared Dove
Resident
Hooded Crow
Resident
Spotted Flycatcher
Summer visitor
House Sparrow
Resident
Magpie
Resident
Yellow-legged Gull
Resident
Barn Swallow
Summer visitor
Rock Dove
Resident
Arriving in September: Black-necked Grebe, Northern Pintail, Golden Plover, Bluethroat, Eurasian Bittern, Willow Tit, Dotterel.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Greece each month: most in October (213), fewest in June (174). Choose a month to see its birds.
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European Storm-petrel
Hydrobates pelagicusLC
Regularly Jun–Jul
Black Swan
Cygnus atratusLC
Wood Duck
Aix sponsaLC
Regularly Dec
Cockatiel
Nymphicus hollandicusLC
Corncrake
Crex crexLC
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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