Birds in Uzbekistan
Our list for Uzbekistan has 157 bird species recorded regularly there: 5 residents, 16 summer visitors, 7 winter visitors, 121 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors
The list comes from 47,000 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
- 157
- In October
- 48
- Common
- 106
- Busiest month
- May
This month: October
GBIF · OctMost likely
Share of all bird records in Uzbekistan 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 Uzbekistan
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magpie | ||||||||||||
| Barn Swallow | ||||||||||||
| Rock Dove | ||||||||||||
| Pied Wagtail | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Collared Dove | ||||||||||||
| Western Marsh-harrier | ||||||||||||
| Carrion Crow | ||||||||||||
| House Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Rook | ||||||||||||
| Common Swift | ||||||||||||
| Lesser Whitethroat | ||||||||||||
| Blackbird | ||||||||||||
| Great Tit | ||||||||||||
| Woodpigeon | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Spotted Flycatcher | ||||||||||||
| Chiffchaff | ||||||||||||
| European Bee-eater | ||||||||||||
| Grey Heron | ||||||||||||
| Hoopoe | ||||||||||||
| Kestrel | ||||||||||||
| Chaffinch | ||||||||||||
| Mallard | ||||||||||||
| Yellow Wagtail | ||||||||||||
| Little Owl | ||||||||||||
| Hooded Crow | ||||||||||||
| Common Tern | ||||||||||||
| Common Pheasant | ||||||||||||
| Common Starling | ||||||||||||
| Jackdaw |
The year in Uzbekistan
Records by month| January | 630 |
|---|---|
| February | 4,020 |
| March | 3,058 |
| April | 7,103 |
| May | 21,417 |
| June | 2,150 |
| July | 1,008 |
| August | 1,588 |
| September | 2,342 |
| October | 1,818 |
| November | 901 |
| December | 1,266 |
May has the most records (21,000). 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 26How common
All 157 birds, A to Z
- Alpine Swift
- Avocet
- Barn Swallow
- Bearded Tit
- Black Redstart
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Blackbird
- Blue Rock-thrush
- Bluethroat
- Booted Eagle
- Brambling
- Buzzard
- Carrion Crow
- Cetti's Warbler
- Chaffinch
- Chiffchaff
- Chukar
- Cinereous Vulture
- Common Crane
- Common Kingfisher
- Common Merganser
- Common Pheasant
Show all 157 birds
- 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
- Crag Martin
- Cuckoo
- Curlew
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Desert Finch
- Dunlin
- Egyptian Vulture
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Eurasian Scops-owl
- Eurasian Siskin
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Stone-curlew
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Eurasian Wren
- European Bee-eater
- European Goldfinch
- European Robin
- European Turtle-dove
- Gadwall
- Garganey
- Glossy Ibis
- Goldcrest
- Golden Eagle
- Golden Oriole
- Goldeneye
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Tit
- Great White Egret
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenfinch
- Greenshank
- Grey Heron
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Greylag Goose
- Griffon Vulture
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hawfinch
- Hen Harrier
- Hobby
- Hooded Crow
- Hoopoe
- House Martin
- House Sparrow
- Jackdaw
- Kentish Plover
- Kestrel
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Linnet
- Little Bittern
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Owl
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Magpie
- Mallard
- Meadow Pipit
- Merlin
- Mistle Thrush
- Montagu's Harrier
- Moorhen
- Moustached Warbler
- Mute Swan
- Nightingale
- Nightjar
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Shoveler
- Osprey
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Wagtail
- Pochard
- Purple Heron
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Chough
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Redshank
- Reed Bunting
- Ringed Plover
- Rock Dove
- Rook
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
- Sand Martin
- Savi's Warbler
- Short-toed Lark
- Smew
- Sparrowhawk
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Redshank
- Tawny Owl
- Temminck's Stint
- Tree Pipit
- Tufted Duck
- Water Pipit
- Water Rail
- Western Marsh-harrier
- Wheatear
- Whinchat
- White-tailed Sea-eagle
- White-winged Tern
- Whitethroat
- Willow Warbler
- Wood Sandpiper
- Woodpigeon
- Wryneck
- Yellow Wagtail
- Yellowhammer
Questions
3How many birds are on Birdfact's list for Uzbekistan?
157 species, each recorded regularly in Uzbekistan (in at least 3 of the 6 years 2019–2024): 5 residents, 16 summer visitors, 7 winter visitors, 121 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors. The list includes only birds with a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur in Uzbekistan, and rarer vagrants are not listed.
What birds can I see in Uzbekistan in October?
48 species on our list for Uzbekistan are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Magpie, Rook, Rock Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove and Carrion Crow.
What are the most common birds in Uzbekistan?
Of the birds on our list, the ones birdwatchers record most often in Uzbekistan are Magpie, Rock Dove, Barn Swallow, Eurasian Collared Dove and Rook.
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













