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
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusWinter visitorCommon21–24 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Eurasian Stone-curlewBurhinus oedicnemusSummer visitorCommon40–44 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchosPassage migrantCommon15–17 cmRegularly Apr–May
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisWinter visitorCommon36–41 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusWinter visitorCommon52–64 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresPassage migrantCommon21–24 cmRegularly Apr–Dec
Spotted RedshankTringa erythropusPassage migrantCommon29–31 cmRegularly Feb–Aug
AvocetRecurvirostra avosettaPassage migrantCommon42–45 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytesWinter visitorCommon9–10 cmRegularly Sep–May
Common TernSterna hirundoPassage migrantCommon31–35 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
DunlinCalidris alpinaPassage migrantCommon16–22 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
RedshankTringa totanusWinter visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaWinter visitorCommon27–30 cmRegularly Aug–May
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Wood SandpiperTringa glareolaPassage migrantCommon19–21 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Cetti's WarblerCettia cettiWinter visitorCommon13–14 cmRegularly Sep–May
Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalusPassage migrantCommon37–40 cmRegularly Dec–Mar
CurlewNumenius arquataPassage migrantCommon50–60 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Common Reed-warblerAcrocephalus scirpaceusSummer visitorCommon13–14 cmRegularly Nov–Jul
RuffCalidris pugnaxWinter visitorCommon20–32 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Gull-billed TernGelochelidon niloticaPassage migrantCommon33–42 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
Purple SwamphenPorphyrio porphyrioResidentCommon45–50 cmRegularly Dec–Sep
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