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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Alpine Swift
Tachymarptis melbaLC
Regularly Feb–Oct

Eurasian Teal
Anas creccaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Eurasian Siskin
Spinus spinusLC
Regularly Nov–Apr

Song Thrush
Turdus philomelosLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Golden Oriole
Oriolus oriolusLC
Regularly Apr–Sep

Common Kingfisher
Alcedo atthisLC
Regularly Jul–May

Red-billed Chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxLC
Recorded all year

Northern Gannet
Morus bassanusLC
Recorded all year
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Eurasian Jay
Garrulus glandariusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun

Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytesLC
Regularly Sep–Jul

Hawfinch
Coccothraustes coccothraustesLC
Regularly Sep–Jun

Common Quail
Coturnix coturnixLC
Regularly Aug–Jun

Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Regularly Sep–May

Eurasian Stone-curlew
Burhinus oedicnemusLC
Recorded all year

Bar-tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponicaNT
Recorded all year

Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Mar–Oct

Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year

Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Recorded all year

Black-tailed Godwit
Limosa limosaNT
Recorded all year

Common Shelduck
Tadorna tadornaLC
Regularly Oct–May

Curlew
Numenius arquataNT
Recorded all year

Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Recorded all year

Firecrest
Regulus ignicapillaLC
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