Common Birds in Iran
Our list for Iran has 102 common birds recorded regularly there: 39 residents, 27 summer visitors, 31 winter visitors and 5 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Iran in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 102, most common first
White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterusSummer visitorCommon20–27 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxSummer visitorCommon58–65 cmRecorded all year
Little OwlAthene noctuaResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
GreenshankTringa nebulariaWinter visitorCommon30–35 cmRecorded all year
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloidesSummer visitorCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
WheatearOenanthe oenantheSummer visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
PochardAythya ferinaResidentCommon42–49 cmRecorded all year
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