Common Birds in Tunisia
Our list for Tunisia has 97 common birds recorded regularly there: 19 residents, 13 summer visitors, 40 winter visitors, 24 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Tunisia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 97, most common first
GreenshankTringa nebulariaWinter visitorCommon30–35 cmRegularly Aug–May
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaWinter visitorCommon58–67 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoWinter visitorCommon25–27 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataWinter visitorCommon44–51 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Corn BuntingEmberiza calandraWinter visitorCommon16–19 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
MallardAnas platyrhynchosWinter visitorCommon50–65 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Great White EgretArdea albaWinter visitorCommon80–104 cmRegularly Sep–May
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
WhitethroatCurruca communisPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–May
European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleucaPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–May
Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatusPassage migrantCommon42–51 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaPassage migrantCommon18–23 cmRegularly Mar–Aug
Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodiaWinter visitorCommon80–90 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaWinter visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Aug–May
European Honey-buzzardPernis apivorusPassage migrantCommon52–60 cmRegularly May–Sep
Little OwlAthene noctuaWinter visitorCommon21–23 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusWinter visitorCommon46–51 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloidesPassage migrantCommon40–49 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurusPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusWinter visitorCommon28–31 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
Tree PipitAnthus trivialisPassage migrantCommon14–16 cmRegularly Apr
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