Common Birds in Western Sahara
Our list for Western Sahara has 73 common birds recorded regularly there: 17 winter visitors, 46 passage migrants and 10 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Western Sahara in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 73, most common first
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly Feb–Mar
Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferrugineaScarceCommon58–70 cm
DunlinCalidris alpinaWinter visitorCommon16–22 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurusPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Apr
Eurasian Stone-curlewBurhinus oedicnemusPassage migrantCommon40–44 cmRegularly Feb–Apr
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantCommon46–51 cmRegularly Apr
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinusPassage migrantCommon15–17 cmRegularly Jan–Apr
Pallid SwiftApus pallidusPassage migrantCommon16–17 cmRegularly Feb–Apr
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisWinter visitorCommon36–41 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
WheatearOenanthe oenanthePassage migrantCommon15–16 cmRegularly Jan–Apr
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponicaWinter visitorCommon37–41 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaPassage migrantCommon17–19 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucosPassage migrantCommon18–20 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaScarceCommon50–58 cm
Grey PhalaropePhalaropus fulicariusScarceCommon20–22 cm
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaPassage migrantCommon27–30 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
House MartinDelichon urbicumPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Apr
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaPassage migrantCommon17–19 cmRegularly Dec–Mar
Audouin's GullIchthyaetus audouiniiWinter visitorCommon48–52 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresPassage migrantCommon21–24 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
SanderlingCalidris albaWinter visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaPassage migrantCommon10–12 cmRegularly Dec–Mar
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusWinter visitorCommon40–46 cmRegularly Dec–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