Common Birds in Somalia
Our list for Somalia has 28 common birds recorded regularly there: 1 summer visitor, 11 passage migrants and 16 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Somalia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 28, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Purple Grenadier 11–13 cm
- Blackcap 13–15 cm
- Tree Pipit 14–16 cm
- Wheatear 15–16 cm
- House Sparrow 14–17 cm
- Thekla's Lark 15–17 cm
- Yellow Wagtail 15–17 cm
- Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush 16–19 cm
- Barn Swallow 17–19 cm
- Ringed Plover 17–19 cm
- Common Sandpiper 18–20 cm
- African Pygmy-falcon 19–20 cm
- Red-and-yellow Barbet 20–23 cm
- Little Owl 21–23 cm
- Ruddy Turnstone 21–24 cm
- Fork-tailed Drongo 23–26 cm
- Grey Plover 27–30 cm
- Hoopoe 25–32 cm
- Greenshank 30–35 cm
- Blue-naped Mousebird 33–36 cm
- Kestrel 32–39 cm
- Gull-billed Tern 33–42 cm
- Whimbrel 40–46 cm
- Pied Crow 46–52 cm
- Lesser Black-backed Gull 52–64 cm
- Little Egret 55–65 cm
- Egyptian Goose 63–73 cm
- Grey Heron 90–98 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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