Common Birds in Morocco
Our list for Morocco has 82 common birds recorded regularly there: 52 residents, 12 summer visitors, 14 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Morocco in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 82, most common first
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisWinter visitorCommon14–15 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Thekla's LarkGalerida theklaeResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Great Grey ShrikeLanius excubitorResidentCommon22–26 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
Woodchat ShrikeLanius senatorSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Feb–Sep
European Bee-eaterMerops apiasterSummer visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
WheatearOenanthe oenantheSummer visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
HoopoeUpupa epopsResidentCommon25–32 cmRecorded all year
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Yellow WagtailMotacilla flavaResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleucaPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucosWinter visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Jul–May
NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchosPassage migrantCommon15–17 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
CootFulica atraResidentCommon36–42 cmRecorded all year
LinnetLinaria cannabinaResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 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