Birds in Turkey
259 species listed · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
Our list for Turkey has 259 bird species recorded regularly there: 92 residents, 66 summer visitors, 66 winter visitors, 29 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors.
The list comes from 2.1 million 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 Turkey in September
212 species on our list are recorded regularly this month. These are the ones birdwatchers record most often.
Hooded Crow
Resident
House Sparrow
Resident
Barn Swallow
Summer visitor
European Bee-eater
Summer visitor
Magpie
Resident
Great Tit
Resident
Rock Dove
Resident
Spotted Flycatcher
Summer visitor
Arriving in September: Eurasian Wigeon, Reed Bunting, Northern Pintail, Bluethroat, Golden Plover, Dotterel, Short-eared Owl, Oriental Honey-buzzard.
Through the year
Species recorded regularly in Turkey each month: most in April (218), fewest in December (178). Choose a month to see its birds.
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Eider
Somateria mollissimaNT
Regularly Jan
Oriental Honey-buzzard
Pernis ptilorhynchusLC
Regularly Sep
Red-flanked Bluetail
Tarsiger cyanurusLC
Regularly Oct
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Budgerigar
Melopsittacus undulatusLC
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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