Birds in Serbia
Our list for Serbia has 225 bird species recorded regularly there: 65 residents, 73 summer visitors, 45 winter visitors, 35 passage migrants and 7 scarce visitors
The list comes from 522,000 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.
- Species on our list
- 225
- In October
- 145
- Common
- 89
- Busiest month
- May
This month: October
GBIF · OctArriving now
Share of all bird records in Serbia in October, 2019–2024. “Arriving now” are the birds whose share rises most from last month. Each month links to that month’s page.
The bird calendar for Serbia
Month by monthWhen each bird is around, through the year. The darker the square, the closer that month is to the bird’s busiest. Filter by summer or winter visitors to see the seasons turn over.
| Bird | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Hooded Crow | ||||||||||||
| Great Tit | ||||||||||||
| Rock Dove | ||||||||||||
| Woodpigeon | ||||||||||||
| Magpie | ||||||||||||
| Mallard | ||||||||||||
| House Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Collared Dove | ||||||||||||
| Rook | ||||||||||||
| Buzzard | ||||||||||||
| Grey Heron | ||||||||||||
| Chaffinch | ||||||||||||
| Black-headed Gull | ||||||||||||
| Great Cormorant | ||||||||||||
| Mute Swan | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Kestrel | ||||||||||||
| Common Starling | ||||||||||||
| Blackbird | ||||||||||||
| Barn Swallow | ||||||||||||
| Great Spotted Woodpecker | ||||||||||||
| Common Pheasant | ||||||||||||
| Coot | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Jay | ||||||||||||
| Blue Tit | ||||||||||||
| European Goldfinch | ||||||||||||
| Pied Wagtail | ||||||||||||
| Common Raven | ||||||||||||
| Blackcap | ||||||||||||
| European Robin |
The year in Serbia
Records by month| January | 46,224 |
|---|---|
| February | 39,103 |
| March | 49,066 |
| April | 58,585 |
| May | 64,722 |
| June | 47,408 |
| July | 38,145 |
| August | 38,901 |
| September | 34,866 |
| October | 42,731 |
| November | 29,237 |
| December | 33,470 |
May has the most records (65,000). Records follow birdwatchers as well as birds: a busy month means more people out looking, as well as more birds passing through.
By family
12 of 33- Ducks, Geese & Swans27
- Sandpipers & Snipes20
- Gulls & Terns12
- Hawks & Eagles12
- Old World Flycatchers12
- Finches11
- Herons & Egrets9
- Crows & Jays7
- Plovers & Lapwings6
- Thrushes6
- Tits & Chickadees6
- Wagtails & Pipits6
All 33 families in Serbia
How common
All 225 birds, A to Z
- Alpine Chough
- Alpine Swift
- Arctic Loon
- Avocet
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barn Owl
- Barn Swallow
- Bearded Tit
- Black Redstart
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Blackbird
- Blackcap
- Blue Rock-thrush
- Blue Tit
- Bluethroat
- Booted Eagle
- Brambling
- Bullfinch
- Buzzard
Show all 225 birds
- Cattle Egret
- Cetti's Warbler
- Chaffinch
- Chiffchaff
- Cirl Bunting
- Coal Tit
- Cockatiel
- Common Crane
- Common Gull
- Common Kingfisher
- Common Merganser
- Common Pheasant
- Common Quail
- Common Raven
- Common Redstart
- Common Reed-warbler
- Common Rosefinch
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Shelduck
- Common Snipe
- Common Starling
- Common Swift
- Common Tern
- Coot
- Corn Bunting
- Corncrake
- Crag Martin
- Crested Tit
- Cuckoo
- Curlew
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dipper
- Dotterel
- Dunlin
- Dunnock
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Jay
- Eurasian Nuthatch
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Eurasian Scops-owl
- Eurasian Siskin
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Eurasian Woodcock
- Eurasian Wren
- European Bee-eater
- European Goldfinch
- European Green Woodpecker
- European Herring Gull
- European Honey-buzzard
- European Pied Flycatcher
- European Robin
- European Turtle-dove
- Fieldfare
- Firecrest
- Gadwall
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey
- Glossy Ibis
- Goldcrest
- Golden Oriole
- Golden Plover
- Goldeneye
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Great White Egret
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenfinch
- Greenshank
- Grey Heron
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Greylag Goose
- Griffon Vulture
- Hawfinch
- Hen Harrier
- Hobby
- Hooded Crow
- Hoopoe
- Horned Grebe
- House Martin
- House Sparrow
- Indian Peafowl
- Jackdaw
- Kestrel
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Linnet
- Little Bittern
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Gull
- Little Owl
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Tit
- Magpie
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Marsh Tit
- Marsh Warbler
- Meadow Pipit
- Mediterranean Gull
- Merlin
- Mistle Thrush
- Montagu's Harrier
- Moorhen
- Moustached Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Nightingale
- Nightjar
- Northern Goshawk
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Shoveler
- Osprey
- Pallid Swift
- Pied Wagtail
- Pochard
- Purple Heron
- Red Crossbill
- Red Kite
- Red Knot
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-breasted Goose
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-throated Loon
- Redshank
- Redwing
- Reed Bunting
- Ring Ouzel
- Ringed Plover
- Rock Dove
- Rook
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
- Sand Martin
- Savi's Warbler
- Sedge Warbler
- Serin
- Short-eared Owl
- Short-toed Lark
- Short-toed Treecreeper
- Smew
- Song Thrush
- Sparrowhawk
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Redshank
- Squacco Heron
- Stock Dove
- Stonechat
- Swan Goose
- Tawny Owl
- Temminck's Stint
- Tree Pipit
- Treecreeper
- Tufted Duck
- Tundra Swan
- Velvet Scoter
- Water Pipit
- Water Rail
- Western Marsh-harrier
- Wheatear
- Whimbrel
- Whinchat
- White-tailed Sea-eagle
- White-winged Tern
- Whitethroat
- Willow Tit
- Willow Warbler
- Wood Duck
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Warbler
- Woodchat Shrike
- Woodlark
- Woodpigeon
- Wryneck
- Yellow Wagtail
- Yellow-legged Gull
- Yellowhammer
Questions
3How many birds are on Birdfact's list for Serbia?
225 species, each recorded regularly in Serbia (in at least 3 of the 6 years 2019–2024): 65 residents, 73 summer visitors, 45 winter visitors, 35 passage migrants and 7 scarce visitors. The list includes only birds with a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur in Serbia, and rarer vagrants are not listed.
What birds can I see in Serbia in October?
145 species on our list for Serbia are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Hooded Crow, Great Tit, Rock Dove, Magpie and Rook.
What are the most common birds in Serbia?
Of the birds on our list, the ones birdwatchers record most often in Serbia are Hooded Crow, Great Tit, Rock Dove, Magpie and Woodpigeon.
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













