Birds of South Korea
South Korea hosts 409 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Oriental MagpiePica serica
- Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
- Cinereous VultureAegypius monachus
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
- Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostris
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- Eastern Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Eurasian MagpiePica pica
- Yellow-throated BuntingEmberiza elegans
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great TitParus major
- Azure-winged MagpieCyanopica cyanus
- Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalus
- Oriental GreenfinchChloris sinica
- Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Indian Spot-billed DuckAnas poecilorhyncha
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Black-faced SpoonbillPlatalea minor
- Green-winged TealAnas crecca
- Grey-backed ThrushTurdus hortulorum
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Eurasian CootFulica atra
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Grey-headed WoodpeckerPicus canus
- Pale ThrushTurdus pallidus
- Black-naped OrioleOriolus chinensis
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- White-cheeked StarlingSpodiopsar cineraceus
- Oriental DollarbirdEurystomus orientalis
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Eastern BuzzardButeo japonicus
- Common PochardAythya ferina
- BramblingFringilla montifringilla
- Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Warbling White-eyeZosterops japonicus
- Rustic BuntingEmberiza rustica
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Common MerganserMergus merganser
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Tundra Bean GooseAnser serrirostris
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Eastern Crowned WarblerPhylloscopus coronatus
- Chinese GrosbeakEophona migratoria
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata
- Naumann's ThrushTurdus naumanni
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- Common GreenshankTringa nebularia
- Dusky ThrushTurdus eunomus
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Olive-backed PipitAnthus hodgsoni
- Oriental Reed WarblerAcrocephalus orientalis
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatus
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Blue Rock ThrushMonticola solitarius
- Light-vented BulbulPycnonotus sinensis
- Blue-and-white FlycatcherCyanoptila cyanomelana
- Vega GullLarus vegae
- Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
- European Herring GullLarus argentatus
- Green SandpiperTringa ochropus
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Japanese CormorantPhalacrocorax capillatus
- White-tailed EagleHaliaeetus albicilla
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Japanese WagtailMotacilla grandis
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Black-faced BuntingEmberiza spodocephala
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegus
- White-backed WoodpeckerDendrocopos leucotos
- Falcated DuckMareca falcata
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Far Eastern CurlewNumenius madagascariensis
- Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodia
- Eurasian HobbyFalco subbuteo
- SmewMergellus albellus
- Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata
- Taiga Bean GooseAnser fabalis
- Red-flanked BluetailTarsiger cyanurus
- Common ShelduckTadorna tadorna
- Asian StubtailUrosphena squameiceps
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Indian CuckooCuculus micropterus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes
- Terek SandpiperXenus cinereus
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- White's ThrushZoothera aurea
- Eastern Red-rumped SwallowCecropis daurica
- Common HoopoeUpupa epops
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Hen HarrierCircus cyaneus
- Tiger ShrikeLanius tigrinus
- Yellow-rumped FlycatcherFicedula zanthopygia
- Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica
- Pallas's Reed BuntingEmberiza pallasi
- Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinus
- Little BuntingEmberiza pusilla
- Wood SandpiperTringa glareola
- Common GullLarus canus
- Tristram's BuntingEmberiza tristrami
- Red-necked StintCalidris ruficollis
- Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferruginea
- Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
- Chinese EgretEgretta eulophotes
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Slaty-backed GullLarus schistisagus
- Chinese Pond HeronArdeola bacchus
- Yellow-browed BuntingEmberiza chrysophrys
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Grey-tailed TattlerTringa brevipes
- RookCorvus frugilegus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
- Black-necked GrebePodiceps nigricollis
- Eastern Yellow WagtailMotacilla tschutschensis
- Grey-capped Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus canicapillus
- Rufous-tailed RobinLarvivora sibilans
- Pale-legged Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus tenellipes
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa
- Chinese BlackbirdTurdus mandarinus
- Northern LapwingVanellus vanellus
- Hooded CraneGrus monacha
- Fork-tailed SwiftApus pacificus
- Great KnotCalidris tenuirostris
- Eurasian TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- Grey-faced BuzzardButastur indicus
- Dusky WarblerPhylloscopus fuscatus
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
- Long-tailed RosefinchCarpodacus sibiricus
- Brown ShrikeLanius cristatus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Grey-streaked FlycatcherMuscicapa griseisticta
- Common RedshankTringa totanus
- Yellow-bellied TitPeriparus venustulus
- Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus
- GarganeySpatula querquedula
- Mugimaki FlycatcherFicedula mugimaki
- Himalayan CuckooCuculus saturatus
- Oriental CuckooCuculus optatus
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Upland BuzzardButeo hemilasius
- Oriental StorkCiconia boyciana
- Ashy MinivetPericrocotus divaricatus
- Red-crowned CraneGrus japonensis
- Chestnut BuntingEmberiza rutila
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Northern BoobookNinox japonica
- Little TernSternula albifrons
- Pacific Reef HeronEgretta sacra
- Lesser CuckooCuculus poliocephalus
- Chinese Penduline TitRemiz consobrinus
- Brown DipperCinclus pallasii
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Common Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
- Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis
- Red-throated PipitAnthus cervinus
- Richard's PipitAnthus richardi
- Siberian AccentorPrunella montanella
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Pallas's Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus proregulus
- Chestnut-eared BuntingEmberiza fucata
- Red-billed StarlingSpodiopsar sericeus
- Black-throated LoonGavia arctica
- Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminata
- Narcissus FlycatcherFicedula narcissina
- Eyebrowed ThrushTurdus obscurus
- Crested Honey BuzzardPernis ptilorhynchus
- Harlequin DuckHistrionicus histrionicus
- Swan GooseAnser cygnoides
- Chinese Grey ShrikeLanius sphenocercus
- Streaked ShearwaterCalonectris leucomelas
- Taiga FlycatcherFicedula albicilla
- Kamchatka Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus examinandus
- Steller's Sea EagleHaliaeetus pelagicus
- Yellow-breasted BuntingEmberiza aureola
- Ruddy KingfisherHalcyon coromanda
- Pallas's RosefinchCarpodacus roseus
- Long-toed StintCalidris subminuta
- Pacific Golden PloverPluvialis fulva
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Common CraneGrus grus
- Broad-billed SandpiperCalidris falcinellus
- Hazel GrouseTetrastes bonasia
- Dark-sided FlycatcherMuscicapa sibirica
- Brown-headed ThrushTurdus chrysolaus
- Forest WagtailDendronanthus indicus
- Ancient MurreletSynthliboramphus antiquus
- Black-browed Reed WarblerAcrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Black Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone atrocaudata
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
- Japanese Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus xanthodryas
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Amur FalconFalco amurensis
- Common RosefinchCarpodacus erythrinus
- Stejneger's ScoterMelanitta stejnegeri
- Eurasian BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Fairy PittaPitta nympha
- Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
- Pacific LoonGavia pacifica
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Red-throated LoonGavia stellata
- Rough-legged BuzzardButeo lagopus
- Radde's WarblerPhylloscopus schwarzi
- Chestnut-cheeked StarlingAgropsar philippensis
- Daurian JackdawColoeus dauuricus
- Black-capped KingfisherHalcyon pileata
- Chestnut-flanked White-eyeZosterops erythropleurus
- Black DrongoDicrurus macrocercus
- Japanese ThrushTurdus cardis
- Japanese WaxwingBombycilla japonica
- Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Grey NightjarCaprimulgus jotaka
- Ferruginous DuckAythya nyroca
- Pechora PipitAnthus gustavi
- Japanese GrosbeakEophona personata
- Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulus
- BluethroatLuscinia svecica
- Solitary SnipeGallinago solitaria
- Black ScoterMelanitta americana
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Daurian StarlingAgropsar sturninus
- Citrine WagtailMotacilla citreola
- Eastern Marsh HarrierCircus spilonotus
- Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida
- Jungle NightjarCaprimulgus indicus
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea
- Long-eared OwlAsio otus
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Rhinoceros AukletCerorhinca monocerata
- Black Wood PigeonColumba janthina
- Eurasian Eagle-OwlBubo bubo
- Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
- Eurasian BitternBotaurus stellaris
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Oriental PratincoleGlareola maldivarum
- Russet SparrowPasser cinnamomeus
- White-throated NeedletailHirundapus caudacutus
- Yellow BuntingEmberiza sulphurata
- Eurasian WryneckJynx torquilla
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Black-legged KittiwakeRissa tridactyla
- Pin-tailed SnipeGallinago stenura
- Swinhoe's White-eyeZosterops simplex
- Oriental Scops OwlOtus sunia
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Japanese QuailCoturnix japonica
- Nordmann's GreenshankTringa guttifer
- Lesser White-fronted GooseAnser erythropus
- Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus
- Spoon-billed SandpiperCalidris pygmaea
- Long-tailed ShrikeLanius schach
- Ochre-rumped BuntingEmberiza yessoensis
- Greylag GooseAnser anser
- Temminck's StintCalidris temminckii
- Asian House MartinDelichon dasypus
- Crested IbisNipponia nippon
- Black WoodpeckerDryocopus martius
- Eastern Imperial EagleAquila heliaca
- Brown-cheeked RailRallus indicus
- Pied AvocetRecurvirostra avosetta
- Common BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Hill PigeonColumba rupestris
- Purple HeronArdea purpurea
- Red-breasted FlycatcherFicedula parva
- Sakhalin Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus borealoides
- Pied HarrierCircus melanoleucos
- Chinese NuthatchSitta villosa
- Brant GooseBranta bernicla
- Pheasant-tailed JacanaHydrophasianus chirurgus
- White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus
- Masked BuntingEmberiza personata
- Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
- Two-barred WarblerPhylloscopus plumbeitarsus
- Swinhoe's SnipeGallinago megala
- Relict GullIchthyaetus relictus
- Glaucous-winged GullLarus glaucescens
- White-shouldered StarlingSturnia sinensis
- White-throated Rock ThrushMonticola gularis
- Alpine AccentorPrunella collaris
- Blyth's PipitAnthus godlewskii
- Spectacled GuillemotCepphus carbo
- White-breasted WaterhenAmaurornis phoenicurus
- WatercockGallicrex cinerea
- Siberian ThrushGeokichla sibirica
- Long-billed MurreletBrachyramphus perdix
- Bar-headed GooseAnser indicus
- Greater Short-toed LarkCalandrella brachydactyla
- Yellow-billed LoonGavia adamsii
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina
- Little CurlewNumenius minutus
- Red-throated ThrushTurdus ruficollis
- Grey-headed LapwingVanellus cinereus
- Black StorkCiconia nigra
- Eurasian WoodcockScolopax rusticola
- Grey BuntingEmberiza variabilis
- Muscovy DuckCairina moschata
- Lanceolated WarblerLocustella lanceolata
- RedpollAcanthis flammea
- Asian Rosy FinchLeucosticte arctoa
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Asian DowitcherLimnodromus semipalmatus
- Pine BuntingEmberiza leucocephalos
- Brown BoobookNinox scutulata
- Western House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Water PipitAnthus spinoletta
- Black-winged KiteElanus caeruleus
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Steppe EagleAquila nipalensis
- Chinese Crested TernThalasseus bernsteini
- Red Collared DoveStreptopelia tranquebarica
- Plumbeous Water RedstartPhoenicurus fuliginosus
- Tickell's Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus affinis
- Ryukyu MinivetPericrocotus tegimae
- Latham's SnipeGallinago hardwickii
- Scaly-sided MerganserMergus squamatus
- Little OwlAthene noctua
- Common MurreUria aalge
- Greater Painted-snipeRostratula benghalensis
- Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula
- Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsii
- Eurasian Penduline TitRemiz pendulinus
- Northern NutcrackerNucifraga caryocatactes
- Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava
- Crested LarkGalerida cristata
- Long-tailed DuckClangula hyemalis
- Water RailRallus aquaticus
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros
- Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinus
- Gray's Grasshopper WarblerHelopsaltes fasciolatus
- Thick-billed MurreUria lomvia
- Japanese MurreletSynthliboramphus wumizusume
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Iceland GullLarus glaucoides
- Japanese Scops OwlOtus semitorques
- FieldfareTurdus pilaris
- Ashy DrongoDicrurus leucophaeus
- Aleutian TernOnychoprion aleuticus
- Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
- Black-throated ThrushTurdus atrogularis
- House CrowCorvus splendens
- Tree PipitAnthus trivialis
- Hume's Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus humei
- Black-headed BuntingEmberiza melanocephala
- Rufous-bellied WoodpeckerDendrocopos hyperythrus
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- White-winged ScoterMelanitta deglandi
- Rosy StarlingPastor roseus
- Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudus
- Pallas's GullIchthyaetus ichthyaetus
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Hair-crested DrongoDicrurus hottentottus
- Rosy PipitAnthus roseatus
- Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalis
- Little StintCalidris minuta
- Cotton Pygmy GooseNettapus coromandelianus
- Chinese ThrushTurdus mupinensis
- American WigeonMareca americana
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Baikal Bush WarblerLocustella davidi
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergii
- House SwiftApus nipalensis
- Pied WheatearOenanthe pleschanka
- White-bellied Green PigeonTreron sieboldii
- Velvet ScoterMelanitta fusca
- Northern ShrikeLanius borealis
- Brown BoobySula leucogaster
- Lesser CoucalCentropus bengalensis
- Asian KoelEudynamys scolopaceus
- Scaly-breasted MuniaLonchura punctulata
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Crested KingfisherMegaceryle lugubris
- Ferruginous FlycatcherMuscicapa ferruginea
- Yellow-streaked WarblerPhylloscopus armandii
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensis
- Bearded ReedlingPanurus biarmicus
- Grey-backed ShrikeLanius tephronotus
- Great BustardOtis tarda
- Least AukletAethia pusilla
- Asian Short-toed LarkAlaudala cheleensis
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe
- Indian PeafowlPavo cristatus
- Isabelline ShrikeLanius isabellinus
- Lesser FrigatebirdFregata ariel
- Himalayan SwiftletAerodramus brevirostris
- Silver-throated BushtitAegithalos glaucogularis
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Oriental Magpie-RobinCopsychus saularis
- Eurasian Crag MartinPtyonoprogne rupestris
- Grey Bush ChatSaxicola ferreus
- Chestnut-winged CuckooClamator coromandus
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
- Verditer FlycatcherEumyias thalassinus
- South Polar SkuaStercorarius maccormicki
- Baer's PochardAythya baeri
- Himalayan OwlStrix nivicolum
- European RobinErithacus rubecula
- American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Black BulbulHypsipetes leucocephalus
- Isabelline WheatearOenanthe isabellina
- Brown-headed GullChroicocephalus brunnicephalus
- Red-breasted GooseBranta ruficollis
- Green-backed FlycatcherFicedula elisae