Birds in Morocco
218 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Morocco has 218 bird species recorded regularly there: 74 residents, 21 summer visitors, 59 winter visitors, 54 passage migrants and 10 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 477,000 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 Morocco in September
169 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.

Rock Dove
Resident

Barn Swallow
Resident

House Sparrow
Resident

Eurasian Collared Dove
Resident

Blackbird
Resident

Cattle Egret
Resident

Yellow-legged Gull
Resident

Kestrel
Resident
Arriving in September: Chiffchaff, Common Snipe, Eurasian Teal, Eurasian Wren, Hawfinch, Common Starling, Woodlark, Alpine Chough and 29 more.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Morocco each month: most in March (178), fewest in July (111). Choose a month to see its birds.
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Meadow Pipit
Anthus pratensisLC
Regularly Oct–Mar

Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Recorded all year

Thekla's Lark
Galerida theklaeLC
Recorded all year

Great Grey Shrike
Lanius excubitorLC
Recorded all year

Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Recorded all year

House Martin
Delichon urbicumLC
Regularly Jan–Nov

Woodchat Shrike
Lanius senatorNT
Regularly Feb–Sep

European Bee-eater
Merops apiasterLC
Regularly Mar–Sep
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Jackdaw
Coloeus monedulaLC
Recorded all year

Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Recorded all year

Blackcap
Sylvia atricapillaLC
Recorded all year

Wheatear
Oenanthe oenantheLC
Regularly Feb–Dec

Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Recorded all year

Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year

Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Recorded all year

Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flavaLC
Recorded all year

European Pied Flycatcher
Ficedula hypoleucaLC
Regularly Apr–Nov

Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Recorded all year

Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Jul–May

Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchosLC
Regularly Mar–Sep

Coot
Fulica atraLC
Recorded all year

Linnet
Linaria cannabinaLC
Recorded all year

Common Raven
Corvus coraxLC
Recorded all year
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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