Birds of Armenia
Among 376 species of birds, recorded in Armenia, we primarily focus our efforts on the species which breed in the country. Such scope is conditioned by necessity of protection of natural habitats for the breeding birds at first, because there is no mass killing of the birds during migration or wintering, such as in Lebanon or Malta; however we face serious threat of habitat degradation - up to destruction.
The articles on breeding birds of Armenia are aimed at providing information about distribution, habitat requirements, food and nesting preferences, population and its trend during the last 10 years, current and potential threats, and also about current and proposed conservation measures. The species in the list below include those which are continuously breeding in Armenia, the ones that have been breeding in Armenia in past, as well as the species which demonstrate indirect features of breeding although it was not confirmed yet.
The articles on breeding birds of Armenia are aimed at providing information about distribution, habitat requirements, food and nesting preferences, population and its trend during the last 10 years, current and potential threats, and also about current and proposed conservation measures. The species in the list below include those which are continuously breeding in Armenia, the ones that have been breeding in Armenia in past, as well as the species which demonstrate indirect features of breeding although it was not confirmed yet.
The State of Breeding Birds of Armenia
Anseriformes
Greylag Goose Ruddy Shelduck Gadwall Mallard Garganey Marbled Teal Red-crested Pochard Common Pochard Ferruginous Pochard Tufted Duck White-headed Duck Galliformes
Caucasian Grouse Caspian Snowcock Chukar See-see Partridge Black Francolin Grey Partridge Common Quail Pheasant Podicipediformes
Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Red-necked Grebe Black-necked Grebe Pelecaniformes
Great Cormorant Pygmy Cormorant Dalmatian Pelican Ciconiiformes
Great Bittern Little Bittern Black-crowned Night-heron Squacco Heron Cattle Egret Little Egret Grey Heron Purple Heron Black Stork White Stork Glossy Ibis Eurasian Spoonbill Falconiformes
European Honey-buzzard Black Kite Bearded Vulture Egyptian Vulture Eurasian Griffon Vulture Eurasian Black Vulture Short-toed Snake-eagle Western Marsh-harrier Montagu's Harrier Northern Goshawk Eurasian Sparrowhawk Shikra Levant Sparrowhawk Common Buzzard Long-legged Buzzard Lesser Spotted Eagle Imperial Eagle Golden Eagle Booted Eagle Osprey Lesser Kestrel Common Kestrel Eurasian Hobby Lanner Falcon Peregrine Falcon |
Gruiformes
Water Rail Spotted Crake Corn Crake Common Moorhen Grey-headed Swamphen Common Coot Common Crane Charadriiformes
Little Ringed Plover Kentish Plover White-tailed Lapwing Northern Lapwing Eurasian Woodcock Common Redshank Green Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Common Black-headed Gull Armenian Gull Gull-billed Tern Common Tern Little Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Pteroclidiformes
Black-bellied Sandgrouse Columbiiformes
Rock Dove Stock Dove Common Wood-pigeon Eurasian Collared-dove European Turtle-dove Laughing Dove Cuculiformes
Great Spotted Cuckoo Common Cuckoo Strigiformes
Common Scops-owl Eurasian Eagle-owl Little Owl Tawny Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Boreal Owl Caprimulgiformes
Eurasian Nightjar Apodiformes
Alpine Swift Common Swift Coraciiformes
Common Kingfisher Blue-cheeked Bee-eater European Bee-eater European Roller Bucerotiformes
Eurasian Hoopoe Piciformes
Eurasian Wryneck Eurasian Green Woodpecker Black Woodpecker Greater Spotted Woodpecker Syrian Woodpecker Middle Spotted Woodpecker Lesser Spotted Woodpecker |
Passeriformes
Bimaculated Lark Greater Short-toed Lark Lesser Short-toed Lark Crested Lark Wood Lark Eurasian Skylark Horned Lark Sand Martin Eurasian Crag Martin Barn Swallow Northern House-martin Tawny Pipit Tree Pipit Meadow Pipit Water Pipit Yellow Wagtail Citrine Wagtail Grey Wagtail White Wagtail White-throated Dipper Winter Wren Dunnock Radde's Accentor Alpine Accentor Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin European Robin Common Nightingale Bluethroat White-throated Robin Black Redstart Common Redstart Whinchat European Stonechat Siberian Stonechat Isabelline Wheatear Northern Wheatear Black-eared Wheatear Finsch's Wheatear Rufous-tailed Wheatear Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush Blue Rock-thrush Ring Ouzel Eurasian Blackbird Song Thrush Mistle Thrush Cetti's Warbler Grasshopper Warbler Savi's Warbler Moustached Warbler Sedge Warbler Eurasian Reed-warbler Marsh Warbler Paddyfield Warbler Great Reed-warbler Olivaceous Warbler Upcher's Warbler Icterine Warbler Blackcap Garden Warbler Barred Warbler Lesser Whitethroat Orphean Warbler Greater Whitethroat Menetries's Warbler Eurasian Chiffchaff Mountain Chiffchaff Wood Warbler Greenish Warbler Common Goldcrest Spotted Flycatcher Red-breasted Flycatcher Semi-collared Flycatcher Bearded Reedling |
Long-tailed Tit
Sombre Tit Coal Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Eurasian Nuthatch Eastern Rock-nuthatch Western Rock-nuthatch Wallcreeper Eurasian Tree-creeper Eurasian Penduline-tit Eurasian Golden-oriole Red-backed Shrike Lesser Grey Shrike Woodchat Shrike Masked Shrike Eurasian Jay Black-billed Magpie Yellow-billed Chough Red-billed Chough Eurasian Jackdaw Rook Carrion Crow Common Raven Common Starling Rose-coloured Starling House Sparrow Spanish Sparrow Eurasian Tree Sparrow Pale Rock-finch Rock Sparrow White-winged Snowfinch Chaffinch Red-fronted Serin European Greenfinch European Goldfinch Eurasian Linnet Twite Common Crossbill Crimson-winged Finch Mongolian Finch Trumpeter Finch Desert Finch Common Rosefinch Eurasian Bullfinch Hawfinch Rock Bunting Grey-necked Bunting Ortolan Bunting Reed Bunting Black-headed Bunting Corn Bunting |