# List of birds of Thailand

The birds of Thailand included 1106 species as of 2024. Of them, 7 have been introduced by humans, and eight have been extirpated.
The birds of Thailand are mainly typical of the Indomalayan realm, with affinities to the Indian subcontinent to the west, and, particularly in Southern Thailand, with the Sundaic fauna to the southeast. The northern mountains are outliers of the Tibetan Plateau, with many species of montane birds, and in winter the avifauna is augmented by migrants from the eastern Palearctic and Himalayas. That Thailand's habitats are contiguous with those of neighbouring countries explains the low number of endemic species.
In 1991, it was estimated that 159 resident and 23 migratory species were endangered or vulnerable due to forest clearance, illegal logging, hunting and habitat degradation, especially in the lowlands. The species most affected are large water birds whose wetland habitat has been largely lost to agriculture, and forest species, as deforestation for agriculture and logging have removed and degraded portions of the woodlands.
This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (English and scientific names) are those of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition. The designations as accidental, introduced, and extirpated, and the notes of worldwide population status such as "critically endangered", are from Bird Checklists of the World. The notes of status in Thailand, such as "winter visitor", are from Lekagul and Round (1991). Species with no indicated status are resident or partially resident non-rarities.

## Ducks, geese, and waterfowl

Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae
Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, flattened bills, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to an oily coating.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Fulvous whistling-duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | Accidental |
| Lesser whistling-duck | Dendrocygna javanica | |
| Bar-headed goose | Anser indicus | Very rare winter visitor |
| Graylag goose | Anser anser | Accidental |
| Swan goose | Anser cygnoides | Accidental |
| Greater white-fronted goose | Anser albifrons | Accidental |
| Lesser white-fronted goose | Anser erythropus | Accidental |
| Knob-billed duck | Sarkidiornis melanotos | Rare resident |
| Ruddy shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | Rare winter visitor |
| Common shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | Very rare winter visitor |
| Cotton pygmy-goose | Nettapus coromandelianus | |
| Mandarin duck | Aix galericulata | Accidental |
| Baikal teal | Sibirionetta formosa | Accidental |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | Winter visitor |
| Northern shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Winter visitor |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Very rare winter visitor |
| Falcated duck | Mareca falcata | Accidental |
| Eurasian wigeon | Mareca penelope | Winter visitor |
| Indian spot-billed duck | Anas poecilorhyncha | Rare winter visitor |
| Eastern spot-billed duck | Anas zonorhyncha | Rare winter visitor |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| Northern pintail | Anas acuta | Winter visitor |
| Green-winged teal | Anas crecca | Winter visitor |
| White-winged duck | Asarcornis scutulata | Very rare resident, endangered |
| Red-crested pochard | Netta rufina | Very rare winter visitor |
| Common pochard | Aythya ferina | Very rare winter visitor |
| Ferruginous duck | Aythya nyroca | Rare winter visitor |
| Baer's pochard | Aythya baeri | Rare winter visitor, critically endangered |
| Tufted duck | Aythya fuligula | Rare winter visitor |
| Greater scaup | Aythya marila | Accidental |
| Long-tailed duck | Clangula hyemalis | Accidental |
| Red-breasted merganser | Mergus serrator | Accidental |
| Scaly-sided merganser | Mergus squamatus | Accidental, endangered |

## Pheasants, grouse, and allies

Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae
The Phasianidae are a family of terrestrial birds which consists of quails, partridges, snowcocks, francolins, spurfowls, tragopans, monals, pheasants, peafowls, and jungle fowls. In general, they are plump (although they vary in size) and have broad, relatively short wings.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Ferruginous partridge | Caloperdix oculeus | |
| Crested partridge | Rollulus rouloul | |
| Rufous-throated partridge | Arborophila rufogularis | |
| Chestnut-headed partridge | Arborophila cambodiana | |
| Bar-backed partridge | Arborophila brunneopectus | |
| Malayan partridge | Arborophila campbelli | |
| Long-billed partridge | Rhizothera longirostris | |
| Hume's pheasant | Syrmaticus humiae | Rare |
| Kalij pheasant | Lophura leucomelanos | |
| Silver pheasant | Lophura nycthemera | |
| Siamese fireback | Lophura diardi | |
| Malayan crested fireback | Lophura rufa | Rare |
| Great argus | Argusianus argus | |
| Green peafowl | Pavo muticus | Endangered |
| Scaly-breasted partridge | Tropicoperdix chloropus | |
| Chestnut-necklaced partridge | Tropicoperdix charltonii | |
| Malayan peacock-pheasant | Polyplectron malacense | |
| Gray peacock-pheasant | Polyplectron bicalcaratum | |
| Mountain peacock-pheasant | Polyplectron inopinatum | Accidental |
| Mountain bamboo-partridge | Bambusicola fytchii | |
| Red junglefowl | Gallus gallus | |
| Chinese francolin | Francolinus pintadeanus | |
| Blue-breasted quail | Synoicus chinesis | |
| Common quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
| Japanese quail | Coturnix japonica | Very rare winter visitor |
| Rain quail | Coturnix coromandelica | |

## Flamingos

Order: Phoenicopteriformes Family: Phoenicopteridae
Flamingos are gregarious wading birds, usually 3 to 5 feet (0.9 to 1.5 m) tall, found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. Flamingos filter-feed on shellfish and algae. Their oddly shaped beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they consume and, uniquely, are used upside-down.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Greater flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | Accidental |

## Grebes

Order: Podicipediformes Family: Podicipedidae
Grebes are small to medium-large freshwater diving birds. They have lobed toes and are excellent swimmers and divers. Their feet are placed far back on the body, making them quite ungainly on land.
| Name | Binomial | Status |
| Little grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
| Horned grebe | Podiceps auritus | Accidental |
| Great crested grebe | Podiceps cristatus | Very rare winter visitor |
| Eared grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | Accidental |

## Pigeons and doves

Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae
Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Rock pigeon | Columba livia | Due to hybridisation with feral pigeons, few if any pure-bred birds remain in Thailand |
| Speckled wood-pigeon | Columba hodgsonii | |
| Ashy wood-pigeon | Columba pulchricollis | |
| Pale-capped pigeon | Columba punicea | Rare, uncertain status |
| Oriental turtle-dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |
| Red collared-dove | Streptopelia tranquebarica | |
| Spotted dove | Streptopelia chinensis | |
| Barred cuckoo-dove | Macropygia unchall | |
| Little cuckoo-dove | Macropygia ruficeps | |
| Asian emerald dove | Chalcophaps indica | |
| Zebra dove | Geopelia striata | Native in south, introduced to central Thailand |
| Nicobar pigeon | Caloenas nicobarica | Rare |
| Little green-pigeon | Treron olax | Rare |
| Pink-necked green-pigeon | Treron vernans | |
| Cinnamon-headed green-pigeon | Treron fulvicollis | |
| Orange-breasted green-pigeon | Treron bicinctus | |
| Ashy-headed green-pigeon | Treron phayrei | |
| Thick-billed green-pigeon | Treron curvirostra | |
| Large green-pigeon | Treron capellei | Rare |
| Yellow-footed green-pigeon | Treron phoenicopterus | |
| Yellow-vented green-pigeon | Treron seimundi | Very rare |
| Pin-tailed green-pigeon | Treron apicauda | |
| Wedge-tailed green-pigeon | Treron sphenurus | |
| White-bellied green-pigeon | Treron sieboldii | Very rare |
| Jambu fruit-dove | Ptilinopus jambu | |
| Green imperial-pigeon | Ducula aenea | |
| Mountain imperial-pigeon | Ducula badia | |
| Pied imperial-pigeon | Ducula bicolor | |

## Cuckoos

Order: Cuculiformes Family: Cuculidae
The family Cuculidae includes cuckoos, roadrunners, and anis. These birds are of variable size with slender bodies, long tails, and strong legs. Many Old World cuckoo species are brood parasites.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Coral-billed ground-cuckoo | Carpococcyx renauldi | |
| Short-toed coucal | Centropus rectunguis | Accidental |
| Greater coucal | Centropus sinensis | |
| Lesser coucal | Centropus bengalensis | |
| Raffles's malkoha | Rhinortha chlorophaea | |
| Red-billed malkoha | Zanclostomus javanicus | |
| Chestnut-breasted malkoha | Phaenicophaeus curvirostris | |
| Chestnut-bellied malkoha | Phaenicophaeus sumatranus | |
| Black-bellied malkoha | Phaenicophaeus diardi | |
| Green-billed malkoha | Phaenicophaeus tristis | |
| Chestnut-winged cuckoo | Clamator coromandus | Summer visitor and on passage |
| Pied cuckoo | Clamator jacobinus | |
| Asian koel | Eudynamys scolopaceus | |
| Asian emerald cuckoo | Chrysococcyx maculatus | Resident and winter visitor |
| Violet cuckoo | Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus | |
| Little bronze-cuckoo | Chrysococcyx minutillus | |
| Banded bay cuckoo | Cacomantis sonneratii | |
| Plaintive cuckoo | Cacomantis merulinus | |
| Brush cuckoo | Cacomantis variolosus | |
| Fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo | Surniculus dicruroides | |
| Square-tailed drongo-cuckoo | Surniculus lugubris | |
| Moustached hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx vagans | |
| Large hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx sparverioides | |
| Dark hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx bocki | |
| Common hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx varius | Accidental |
| Northern hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx hyperythrus | Accidental |
| Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx nisicolor | |
| Malaysian hawk-cuckoo | Hierococcyx fugax | |
| Lesser cuckoo | Cuculus poliocephalus | Very rare |
| Indian cuckoo | Cuculus micropterus | |
| Himalayan cuckoo | Cuculus saturatus | |
| Sunda cuckoo | Cuculus lepidus | |
| Common cuckoo | Cuculus canorus |
| Oriental cuckoo | Cuculus optatus | Accidental |

## Frogmouths

Order: Caprimulgiformes Family: Podargidae
The frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds related to the nightjars. They are named for their large flattened hooked bill and huge frog-like gape, which they use to take insects.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Large frogmouth | Batrachostomus auritus | Very rare |
| Gould's frogmouth | Batrachostomus stellatus | Rare |
| Hodgson's frogmouth | Batrachostomus hodgsoni | |
| Blyth's frogmouth | Batrachostomus affinis | |

## Nightjars and allies

Order: Caprimulgiformes Family: Caprimulgidae
Nightjars are medium-sized ground-nesting nocturnal birds with long wings, short legs, and very short bills. Most have small feet, of little use for walking, and long pointed wings. Their soft plumage is camouflaged to resemble bark or leaves.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Malaysian eared-nightjar | Lyncornis temminckii | |
| Great eared-nightjar | Lyncornis macrotis | |
| Gray nightjar | Caprimulgus jotaka | Winter visitor, breeds in mountains |
| Large-tailed nightjar | Caprimulgus macrurus | |
| Indian nightjar | Caprimulgus asiaticus | |
| Savanna nightjar | Caprimulgus affinis | |

## Swifts

Order: Caprimulgiformes Family: Apodidae
Swifts are small birds which spend the majority of their lives flying. These birds have very short legs and never settle voluntarily on the ground, perching instead only on vertical surfaces. Many swifts have long swept-back wings which resemble a crescent or boomerang.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Silver-rumped needletail | Rhaphidura leucopygialis | |
| White-throated needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | Rare migrant |
| Silver-backed needletail | Hirundapus cochinchinensis | Uncertain status |
| Brown-backed needletail | Hirundapus giganteus | |
| Plume-toed swiftlet | Collocalia affinis | Rare |
| Himalayan swiftlet | Aerodramus brevirostris | Breeds in highlands, winter visitor elsewhere |
| Black-nest swiftlet | Aerodramus maximus | |
| White-nest swiftlet | Aerodramus fuciphagus | |
| Germain's swiftlet | Aerodramus germani | |
| Common swift | Apus apus | Accidental |
| Pacific swift | Apus pacificus | Winter visitor, some breed |
| Cook's swift | Apus cooki | |
| Dark-rumped swift | Apus acuticauda | Very rare winter visitor |
| House swift | Apus nipalensis | |
| Asian palm-swift | Cypsiurus balasiensis | |

## Treeswifts

Order: Caprimulgiformes Family: Hemiprocnidae
The treeswifts, also called crested swifts, are closely related to the true swifts. They differ from the true swifts in that they have crests, long forked tails, and soft plumage.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Crested treeswift | Hemiprocne coronata |
| Gray-rumped treeswift | Hemiprocne longipennis |
| Whiskered treeswift | Hemiprocne comata |

## Rails, gallinules, and coots

Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae
Rallidae is a large family of small to medium-sized birds which includes the rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules. Typically they inhabit dense vegetation in damp environments near lakes, swamps, or rivers. In general they are shy and secretive birds, making them difficult to observe. Most species have strong legs and long toes which are well adapted to soft uneven surfaces. They tend to have short, rounded wings and appear to be weak fliers.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Brown-cheeked rail | Rallus indicus | Winter visitor |
| Slaty-breasted rail | Lewinia striata | |
| Spotted crake | Porzana porzana | Very rare winter visitor |
| Eurasian moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| Eurasian coot | Fulica atra | Winter visitor |
| Gray-headed swamphen | Porphyrio poliocephalus | |
| Watercock | Gallicrex cinerea | Summer visitor and resident |
| White-breasted waterhen | Amaurornis phoenicurus | |
| White-browed crake | Poliolimnas cinereus | |
| Red-legged crake | Rallina fasciata | |
| Slaty-legged crake | Rallina eurizonoides | Rare, mainly winter visitor |
| Ruddy-breasted crake | Zapornia fusca | |
| Band-bellied crake | Zapornia paykullii | Accidental |
| Baillon's crake | Zapornia pusilla | Winter visitor |
| Black-tailed crake | Zapornia bicolor | Rare |

## Finfoots

Order: Gruiformes Family: Heliornithidae
Heliornithidae is small family of tropical birds with webbed lobes on their feet similar to those of grebes and coots.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Masked finfoot | Heliopais personatus | Winter visitor and passage migrant, endangered |

## Cranes

Order: Gruiformes Family: Gruidae
Cranes are large, long-legged, and long-necked birds. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have elaborate and noisy courting displays or "dances".
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Demoiselle crane | Anthropoides virgo | Accidental |
| Sarus crane | Antigone antigone | Extirpated; reintroduced in 2011 |
| Common crane | Grus grus | |

## Thick-knees

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Burhinidae
The thick-knees are found worldwide within the tropical zone, with some species also breeding in temperate Europe and Australia. They are medium to large waders with strong black or yellow-black bills, large yellow eyes, and cryptic plumage. Despite being classed as waders, most species have a preference for arid or semi-arid habitats.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Indian thick-knee | Burhinus indicus | |
| Great thick-knee | Esacus recurvirostris | |
| Beach thick-knee | Esacus magnirostris | Rare and local |

## Stilts and avocets

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Recurvirostridae
Recurvirostridae is a family of large wading birds which includes the avocets and stilts. The avocets have long legs and long up-curved bills. The stilts have extremely long legs and long, thin, straight bills.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black-winged stilt | Himantopus himantopus | Resident and winter visitor |
| Pied avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | Accidental |

## Oystercatchers

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Haematopodidae
The oystercatchers are large and noisy plover-like birds, with strong bills used for smashing or prising open molluscs.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Eurasian oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Accidental |

## Plovers and lapwings

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Charadriidae
The family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short thick necks, and long, usually pointed, wings. They are found in open country worldwide, mostly in habitats near water.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black-bellied plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Winter visitor |
| Pacific golden-plover | Pluvialis fulva | Winter visitor |
| Northern lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Rare winter visitor |
| River lapwing | Vanellus duvaucelii | |
| Gray-headed lapwing | Vanellus cinereus | Winter visitor |
| Red-wattled lapwing | Vanellus indicus | |
| Lesser sand-plover | Charadrius mongolus | Winter visitor |
| Greater sand-plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | Winter visitor |
| Malaysian plover | Charadrius peronii | |
| Kentish plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | Winter visitor |
| White-faced plover | Charadrius dealbatus | Winter visitor |
| Common ringed plover | Charadrius hiaticula | Accidental |
| Long-billed plover | Charadrius placidus | Rare winter visitor |
| Little ringed plover | Charadrius dubius | Winter visitor |
| Oriental plover | Charadrius veredus | |

## Painted-snipes

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Rostratulidae
Painted-snipes are short-legged, long-billed birds similar in shape to the true snipes, but more brightly coloured.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Greater painted-snipe | Rostratula benghalensis | |

## Jacanas

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Jacanidae
The jacanas are a group of waders found throughout the tropics. They are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Pheasant-tailed jacana | Hydrophasianus chirurgus | Winter visitor and resident |
| Bronze-winged jacana | Metopidius indicus | |

## Sandpipers and allies

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae
Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers, and phalaropes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Variation in length of legs and bills enables multiple species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | Winter visitor |
| Little curlew | Numenius minutus | Very rare passage migrant |
| Far Eastern curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | Rare passage migrant, endangered |
| Eurasian curlew | Numenius arquata | Winter visitor |
| Bar-tailed godwit | Limosa lapponica | Winter visitor |
| Black-tailed godwit | Limosa limosa | Winter visitor |
| Ruddy turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Winter visitor |
| Great knot | Calidris tenuirostris | Mainly passage migrant, endangered |
| Red knot | Calidris canutus | Winter visitor |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Winter and passage visitor |
| Broad-billed sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Winter visitor |
| Sharp-tailed sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Very rare winter visitor |
| Curlew sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Winter visitor |
| Temminck's stint | Calidris temminckii | Winter visitor |
| Long-toed stint | Calidris subminuta | Winter visitor |
| Spoon-billed sandpiper | Calidris pygmaea | Rare on passage and in winter, critically endangered |
| Red-necked stint | Calidris ruficollis | Common winter visitor |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | Winter visitor |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare winter visitor |
| Little stint | Calidris minuta | Rare in winter |
| Pectoral sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Accidental |
| Asian dowitcher | Limnodromus semipalmatus | Rare on passage |
| Long-billed dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Accidental |
| Jack snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare winter visitor |
| Eurasian woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | Winter visitor |
| Wood snipe | Gallinago nemoricola | Very rare winter visitor |
| Common snipe | Gallinago gallinago | Winter visitor |
| Pin-tailed snipe | Gallinago stenura | Winter visitor |
| Swinhoe's snipe | Gallinago megala | Very rare winter visitor |
| Terek sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | Winter visitor |
| Red-necked phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare in winter or on passage |
| Red phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare in winter or on passage |
| Common sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | Winter visitor |
| Green sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | Winter visitor |
| Gray-tailed tattler | Tringa brevipes | Rare on passage |
| Spotted redshank | Tringa erythropus | Winter visitor |
| Common greenshank | Tringa nebularia | Winter visitor |
| Nordmann's greenshank | Tringa guttifer | Rare winter visitor, endangered |
| Marsh sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | Winter visitor |
| Wood sandpiper | Tringa glareola | Winter visitor |
| Common redshank | Tringa totanus | Winter visitor |

## Buttonquail

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Turnicidae
The buttonquail are small, drab, running birds which resemble the true quails. The female is the brighter of the sexes and initiates courtship. The male incubates the eggs and tends the young.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Small buttonquail | Turnix sylvaticus |
| Yellow-legged buttonquail | Turnix tanki |
| Barred buttonquail | Turnix suscitator |

## Crab-plover

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Dromadidae
The crab-plover is related to the waders, but is the only member of its family. It resembles a plover but has very long grey legs and a strong black bill similar to that of a tern. It has black-and-white plumage, a long neck, partially webbed feet, and a bill designed for eating crabs.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Crab-plover | Dromas ardeola | Rare but annual in winter |

## Pratincoles and coursers

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Glareolidae
Glareolidae is a family of wading birds comprising the pratincoles, which have short legs, long pointed wings, and long forked tails, and the coursers, which have long legs, short wings, and long, pointed bills which curve downwards.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Collared pratincole | Glareola pratincola | Accidental |
| Oriental pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | Summer visitor |
| Small pratincole | Glareola lactea | Resident and winter visitor |

## Skuas and jaegers

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Stercorariidae
The family Stercorariidae are, in general, medium to large birds, typically with grey or brown plumage, often with white markings on the wings. They nest on the ground in temperate and arctic regions and are long-distance migrants.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Pomarine jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Winter visitor |
| Parasitic jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare winter visitor |
| Long-tailed jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | |

## Auks, murres, and puffins

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Alcidae
Alcids are superficially similar to penguins due to their black-and-white colours, their upright posture and some of their habits, however they are not related to the penguins and differ in being able to fly. Auks live on the open sea, only deliberately coming ashore to nest.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Ancient murrelet | Synthliboramphus antiquus | Accidental |

## Gulls, terns, and skimmers

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Laridae
Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds, the gulls, terns, and skimmers. They are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with grey or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt fish by diving but some pick insects off the surface of fresh water. Terns are generally long-lived birds, with several species known to live in excess of 30 years. Skimmers are a small family of tropical tern-like birds. They have an elongated lower mandible which they use to feed by flying low over the water surface and skimming the water for small fish.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black-legged kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Accidental |
| Sabine's gull | Xema sabini | Accidental |
| Slender-billed gull | Chroicocephalus genei | Very rare winter visitor |
| Black-headed gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | Winter visitor |
| Brown-headed gull | Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus | Rare winter visitor |
| Little gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | Accidental |
| Sooty gull | Ichthyaetus hemprichii | Accidental |
| Pallas's gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | Very rare winter visitor |
| Black-tailed gull | Larus crassirostris | Very rare winter visitor |
| Common gull | Larus canus | |
| Herring gull | Larus argentatus | |
| Caspian gull | Larus cachinnans | Accidental |
| Lesser black-backed gull | Larus fuscus | Accidental |
| Slaty-backed gull | Larus schistisagus | Accidental |
| Brown noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Sooty tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Aleutian tern | Onychoprion aleuticus | Accidental |
| Little tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Gull-billed tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Winter visitor |
| Caspian tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Winter visitor |
| White-winged tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Winter visitor |
| Whiskered tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
| Roseate tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Black-naped tern | Sterna sumatrana | |
| Common tern | Sterna hirundo | Winter visitor |
| Arctic tern | Sterna paradisaea | Accidental |
| Black-bellied tern | Sterna acuticauda | Extirpated |
| River tern | Sterna aurantia | |
| Great crested tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
| Lesser crested tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | Rare winter visitor |
| Chinese crested tern | Thalasseus bernsteini | Accidental, critically endangered |
| Indian skimmer | Rynchops albicollis | |

## Tropicbirds

Order: Phaethontiformes Family: Phaethontidae
Tropicbirds are slender white birds of tropical oceans with exceptionally long central tail feathers. Their heads and long wings have black markings.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| White-tailed tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Accidental |
| Red-billed tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Accidental |
| Red-tailed tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | Accidental |

## Albatrosses

Order: Procellariiformes Family: Diomedeidae
The albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses of the genus Diomedea have the largest wingspans of any extant birds.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Laysan albatross | Phoebastria immutabilis | Accidental |

## Northern storm-petrels

Order: Procellariiformes Family: Hydrobatidae
Storm-petrels are small birds which spend most of their lives at sea, coming ashore only to breed. They feed on planktonic crustaceans and small fish picked from the surface, typically while hovering or pattering across the water. Their flight is fluttering and sometimes bat-like.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Swinhoe's storm-petrel | Hydrobates monorhis | Accidental |

## Shearwaters and petrels

Order: Procellariiformes Family: Procellariidae
The procellariids are the main group of medium-sized "true petrels", characterised by united nostrils with medium septum and a long outer functional primary.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Northern fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | Accidental |
| White-necked petrel | Pterodroma cervicalis | Accidental |
| Streaked shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | Very rare winter visitor |
| Wedge-tailed shearwater | Ardenna pacificus | Accidental |
| Short-tailed shearwater | Ardenna tenuirostris | Accidental |

## Storks

Order: Ciconiiformes Family: Ciconiidae
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked, wading birds with long, stout bills. Storks are virtually mute, but bill-clattering is an important mode of communication at the nest. Their nests can be large and may be reused for many years. Many species are migratory.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Asian openbill | Anastomus oscitans | |
| Black stork | Ciconia nigra | Rare winter visitor |
| Asian woolly-necked stork | Ciconia episcopus | |
| Storm's stork | Ciconia stormi | Endangered |
| White stork | Ciconia ciconia | Accidental |
| Oriental stork | Ciconia boyciana | Endangered |
| Black-necked stork | Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus | Extirpated |
| Lesser adjutant | Leptoptilos javanicus | Rare |
| Greater adjutant | Leptoptilos dubius | Extirpated, endangered |
| Milky stork | Mycteria cinerea | Introduced, endangered |
| Painted stork | Mycteria leucocephala | |

## Frigatebirds

Order: Suliformes Family: Fregatidae
Frigatebirds are large seabirds usually found over tropical oceans. They are large, black-and-white, or completely black, with long wings and deeply forked tails. The males have coloured inflatable throat pouches. They do not swim or walk and cannot take off from a flat surface. Having the largest wingspan-to-body-weight ratio of any bird, they are essentially aerial, able to stay aloft for more than a week.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Lesser frigatebird | Fregata ariel | Winter visitor |
| Christmas Island frigatebird | Fregata andrewsi | Winter visitor, critically endangered |
| Great frigatebird | Fregata minor | Rare |

## Boobies and gannets

Order: Suliformes Family: Sulidae
The gannets and boobies are medium to large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Masked booby | Sula dactylatra | |
| Brown booby | Sula leucogaster | Extirpated, formerly bred |
| Red-footed booby | Sula sula | Accidental |

## Anhingas

Order: Suliformes Family: Anhingidae
Anhingas or darters are often called "snake-birds" because they have long thin necks, which gives a snake-like appearance when they swim with their bodies submerged. The males have black and dark-brown plumage, an erectile crest on the nape and a larger bill than the female. The females have much paler plumage, especially, on the neck and underparts. The darters have completely webbed feet and their legs are short and set far back on the body. Their plumage is somewhat permeable, like that of cormorants, and they spread their wings to dry after diving.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Oriental darter | Anhinga melanogaster | Rare |

## Cormorants and shags

Order: Suliformes Family: Phalacrocoracidae
The Phalacrocoracidae are a family of medium to large fish-eating birds that includes cormorants and shags. Plumage colouration varies; the majority of species have mainly dark plumage, but some are pied black and white, and a few are more colourful.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Little cormorant | Microcarbo niger | |
| Great cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
| Indian cormorant | Phalacrocorax fuscicollis | Rare winter visitor, formerly bred |

## Pelicans

Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Pelecanidae
Pelicans are large water birds with a distinctive pouch under their beak. They have webbed feet with four toes.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Great white pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | Vagrant |
| Spot-billed pelican | Pelecanus philippensis | Rare, probably once bred |

## Herons, egrets, and bitterns

Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Ardeidae
The family Ardeidae contains the bitterns, herons, and egrets. Herons and egrets are medium to large wading birds with long necks and legs. Bitterns tend to be shorter necked and more wary. Unlike other long-necked birds such as storks, ibises, and spoonbills, members of this family fly with their necks retracted.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Great bittern | Botaurus stellaris | Winter visitor |
| Yellow bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis | |
| Schrenck's bittern | Ixobrychus eurhythmus | Passage migrant |
| Cinnamon bittern | Ixobrychus cinnamomeus | |
| Black bittern | Ixobrychus flavicollis | |
| Gray heron | Ardea cinerea | Winter visitor, formerly bred |
| Great-billed heron | Ardea sumatrana | Now very rare |
| Purple heron | Ardea purpurea | Winter visitor |
| Great egret | Ardea alba | |
| Intermediate egret | Ardea intermedia | Winter visitor |
| Chinese egret | Egretta eulophotes | Very rare winter visitor |
| Little egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| Pacific reef-heron | Egretta sacra | |
| Cattle egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Indian pond-heron | Ardeola grayii | |
| Chinese pond-heron | Ardeola bacchus | Winter visitor |
| Javan pond-heron | Ardeola speciosa | |
| Striated heron | Butorides striata | |
| Black-crowned night-heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Malayan night-heron | Gorsachius melanolophus | |

## Ibises and spoonbills

Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Threskiornithidae
Threskiornithidae is a family of large terrestrial and wading birds which comprises the ibises and spoonbills. Its members have long, broad wings with 11 primary and about 20 secondary flight feathers. They are strong fliers and, despite their size and weight, very capable soarers.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Glossy ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| African sacred ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | Introduced species |
| Black-headed ibis | Threskiornis melanocephalus | |
| White-shouldered ibis | Pseudibis davisoni | Extirpated, critically endangered |
| Giant ibis | Pseudibis gigantea | Extirpated, critically endangered |
| Eurasian spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | Very rare winter visitor |
| Black-faced spoonbill | Platalea minor | Very rare winter visitor, endangered |

## Osprey

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Pandionidae
The family Pandionidae contains only one species, the osprey. The osprey is a medium-large raptor which is a specialist fish-eater with a worldwide distribution.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Winter visitor |

## Hawks, eagles, and kites

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae
Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds mostly have powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black-winged kite | Elanus caeruleus | |
| Oriental honey-buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | |
| Jerdon's baza | Aviceda jerdoni | |
| Black baza | Aviceda leuphotes | |
| Red-headed vulture | Sarcogyps calvus | Critically endangered, Accidental |
| Cinereous vulture | Aegypius monachus | Rare winter visitor |
| White-rumped vulture | Gyps bengalensis | Possibly extirpated, critically endangered |
| Slender-billed vulture | Gyps tenuirostris | Extirpated, critically endangered |
| Himalayan griffon | Gyps himalayensis | Accidental |
| Crested serpent-eagle | Spilornis cheela | |
| Short-toed snake-eagle | Circaetus gallicus | Rare passage migrant and winter visitor |
| Bat hawk | Macheiramphus alcinus | |
| Changeable hawk-eagle | Nisaetus cirrhatus | |
| Mountain hawk-eagle | Nisaetus nipalensis | |
| Blyth's hawk-eagle | Nisaetus alboniger | |
| Wallace's hawk-eagle | Nisaetus nanus | |
| Rufous-bellied eagle | Lophotriorchis kienerii | |
| Black eagle | Ictinaetus malaiensis | |
| Indian spotted eagle | Clanga hastata | Accidental |
| Greater spotted eagle | Clanga clanga | Uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor |
| Booted eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | Rare passage migrant and winter visitor |
| Steppe eagle | Aquila nipalensis | Accidental, endangered |
| Imperial eagle | Aquila heliaca | Rare winter visitor |
| Bonelli's eagle | Aquila fasciata | Rare |
| White-eyed buzzard | Butastur teesa | Accidental |
| Rufous-winged buzzard | Butastur liventer | |
| Gray-faced buzzard | Butastur indicus | Passage migrant and winter visitor |
| Eurasian marsh-harrier | Circus aeruginosus | Rare winter visitor |
| Eastern marsh-harrier | Circus spilonotus | Winter visitor |
| Hen harrier | Circus cyaneus | Rare winter visitor |
| Pallid harrier | Circus macrourus | Accidental |
| Pied harrier | Circus melanoleucos | Winter visitor |
| Crested goshawk | Accipiter trivirgatus | |
| Shikra | Accipiter badius | |
| Chinese sparrowhawk | Accipiter soloensis | Passage migrant and winter visitor |
| Japanese sparrowhawk | Accipiter gularis | Passage migrant and winter visitor |
| Besra | Accipiter virgatus | |
| Eurasian sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | Rare winter visitor |
| Northern goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | Rare winter visitor |
| Black kite | Milvus migrans | Winter visitor, some breed |
| Brahminy kite | Haliastur indus | |
| White-tailed eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | Accidental |
| Pallas's fish-eagle | Haliaeetus leucoryphus | Accidental, possibly extirpated endangered |
| White-bellied sea-eagle | Haliaeetus leucogaster | |
| Lesser fish-eagle | Ichthyophaga humilis | Rare resident |
| Gray-headed fish-eagle | Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus | Very rare |
| Common buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
| Himalayan buzzard | Buteo refectus | |
| Eastern buzzard | Buteo japonicus | Winter visitor |
| Long-legged buzzard | Buteo rufinus | Accidental |

## Barn-owls

Order: Strigiformes Family: Tytonidae
Barn-owls are medium to large owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long strong legs with powerful talons.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Australasian grass-owl | Tyto longimembris |
| Eastern barn owl | Tyto javanica |
| Oriental bay-owl | Phodilus badius |

## Owls

Order: Strigiformes Family: Strigidae
The typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| White-fronted scops-owl | Otus sagittatus | Rare |
| Reddish scops-owl | Otus rufescens | Rare |
| Mountain scops-owl | Otus spilocephalus | |
| Collared scops-owl | Otus lettia | |
| Sunda scops-owl | Otus lempiji | |
| Oriental scops-owl | Otus sunia | |
| Spot-bellied eagle-owl | Bubo nipalensis | |
| Barred eagle-owl | Bubo sumatranus | |
| Dusky eagle-owl | Bubo coromandus | Very rare |
| Brown fish-owl | Ketupa zeylonensis | |
| Buffy fish-owl | Ketupa ketupu | |
| Collared owlet | Taenioptynx brodiei | |
| Asian barred owlet | Glaucidium cuculoides | |
| Collared owlet | Taenioptynx brodiei | |
| Spotted owlet | Athene brama | |
| Spotted wood-owl | Strix seloputo | |
| Brown wood-owl | Strix leptogrammica | |
| Short-eared owl | Asio flammeus | Very rare winter visitor |
| Brown boobook | Ninox scutulata | |
| Northern boobook | Ninox japonica | Accidental |

## Trogons

Order: Trogoniformes Family: Trogonidae
The family Trogonidae includes the trogons and quetzals. Found in tropical woodlands worldwide, they feed on insects and fruit, and their broad bills and weak legs reflect their diet and arboreal habits. Although their flight is fast, they are reluctant to fly any distance. Trogons have soft, often colourful, feathers with distinctive male and female plumage.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Red-naped trogon | Harpactes kasumba | Rare |
| Diard's trogon | Harpactes diardii | |
| Cinnamon-rumped trogon | Harpactes orrhophaeus | Rare |
| Scarlet-rumped trogon | Harpactes duvaucelii | |
| Red-headed trogon | Harpactes erythrocephalus | |
| Orange-breasted trogon | Harpactes oreskios | |

## Hoopoes

Order: Bucerotiformes Family: Upupidae
Hoopoes have black, white, and pink plumage and a large erectile crest on the head.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Eurasian hoopoe | Upupa epops | |

## Hornbills

Order: Bucerotiformes Family: Bucerotidae
Hornbills are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, sometimes with a casque on the upper mandible. Frequently, the bill is brightly coloured.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| White-crowned hornbill | Berenicornis comatus | Endangered |
| Helmeted hornbill | Buceros vigil | Critically endangered |
| Rhinoceros hornbill | Buceros rhinoceros | Rare, far south |
| Great hornbill | Buceros bicornis | |
| Bushy-crested hornbill | Anorrhinus galeritus | |
| Brown hornbill | Anorrhinus austeni | |
| Rusty-cheeked hornbill | Anorrhinus tickelli | |
| Black hornbill | Anthracoceros malayanus | Rare |
| Oriental pied-hornbill | Anthracoceros albirostris | |
| Rufous-necked hornbill | Aceros nipalensis | Rare |
| Wreathed hornbill | Rhyticeros undulatus | |
| Plain-pouched hornbill | Rhyticeros subruficollis | Rare |
| Wrinkled hornbill | Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus | Endangered |

## Kingfishers

Order: Coraciiformes Family: Alcedinidae
Kingfishers are medium-sized birds with large heads, long, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Blyth's kingfisher | Alcedo hercules | Very rare winter visitor |
| Common kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | Very common winter visitor |
| Blue-eared kingfisher | Alcedo meninting | |
| Malaysian blue-banded kingfisher | Alcedo peninsulae | |
| Black-backed dwarf-kingfisher | Ceyx erithaca | |
| Rufous-backed dwarf-kingfisher | Ceyx rufidorsa | |
| Banded kingfisher | Lacedo pulchella | |
| Brown-winged kingfisher | Pelargopsis amauroptera | |
| Stork-billed kingfisher | Pelargopsis capensis | |
| Ruddy kingfisher | Halcyon coromanda | |
| White-throated kingfisher | Halcyon smyrnensis | |
| Black-capped kingfisher | Halcyon pileata | Winter visitor and passage migrant |
| Sacred kingfisher | Todiramphus sanctus | Accidental |
| Collared kingfisher | Todirhamphus chloris | |
| Rufous-collared kingfisher | Actenoides concretus | Rare and reduced |
| Crested kingfisher | Megaceryle lugubris | |
| Pied kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | |

## Bee-eaters

Order: Coraciiformes Family: Meropidae
The bee-eaters are a group of near passerine birds. Most species are found in Africa but others occur in southern Europe, southern Asia, Australia and New Guinea. They are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies, and usually elongated central tail feathers. All are colourful and have long down-turned bills and pointed wings, which give them a swallow-like appearance when seen from afar.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Red-bearded bee-eater | Nyctyornis amictus | |
| Blue-bearded bee-eater | Nyctyornis athertoni | |
| Asian green bee-eater | Merops orientalis | |
| Blue-throated bee-eater | Merops viridis | Resident, winter visitor and passage migrant |
| Blue-tailed bee-eater | Merops philippinus | Resident, winter visitor and passage migrant |
| Chestnut-headed bee-eater | Merops leschenaulti | |

## Rollers

Order: Coraciiformes Family: Coraciidae
Rollers resemble crows in size and build, but are more closely related to the kingfishers and bee-eaters. They share the colourful appearance of those groups with blues and browns predominating. The two inner front toes are connected, but the outer toe is not.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| European roller | Coracias garrulus | Accidental |
| Indochinese roller | Coracias affinis | |
| Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | |

## Asian barbets

Order: Piciformes Family: Megalaimidae
The Asian barbets are plump birds, with short necks and large heads. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills. Most species are brightly coloured.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Sooty barbet | Caloramphus hayii | |
| Coppersmith barbet | Psilopogon haemacephalus | |
| Blue-eared barbet | Psilopogon duvaucelii | |
| Fire-tufted barbet | Psilopogon pyrolophus | Accidental |
| Great barbet | Psilopogon virens | |
| Red-crowned barbet | Psilopogon rafflesii | Rare |
| Red-throated barbet | Psilopogon mystacophanos | |
| Yellow-crowned barbet | Psilopogon henricii | |
| Green-eared barbet | Psilopogon faiostrictus | |
| Lineated barbet | Psilopogon lineatus | |
| Golden-throated barbet | Psilopogon franklinii | |
| Necklaced barbet | Psilopogon auricularis | |
| Gold-whiskered barbet | Psilopogon chrysopogon | |
| Moustached barbet | Psilopogon incognitus | |
| Blue-throated barbet | Psilopogon asiaticus | |
| Black-browed barbet | Psilopogon oorti | |
| Turquoise-throated barbet | Psilopogon chersonesus | Endemic |

## Honeyguides

Order: Piciformes Family: Indicatoridae
Honeyguides are among the few birds that feed on wax. They are named for the greater honeyguide which leads traditional honey-hunters to bees' nests and, after the hunters have harvested the honey, feeds on the remaining contents of the hive.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Malaysian honeyguide | Indicator archipelagicus | Rare |

## Woodpeckers

Order: Piciformes Family: Picidae
Woodpeckers are small to medium-sized birds with chisel-like beaks, short legs, stiff tails, and long tongues used for capturing insects. Some species have feet with two toes pointing forward and two backward, while several species have only three toes. Many woodpeckers have the habit of tapping noisily on tree trunks with their beaks.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Eurasian wryneck | Jynx torquilla | Winter visitor |
| Speckled piculet | Picumnus innominatus | |
| Rufous piculet | Sasia abnormis | |
| White-browed piculet | Sasia ochracea | |
| Gray-and-buff woodpecker | Hemicircus concretus | |
| Heart-spotted woodpecker | Hemicircus canente | |
| Sunda pygmy woodpecker | Yungipicus moluccensis | Accidental |
| Gray-capped pygmy woodpecker | Yungipicus canicapillus | |
| Yellow-crowned woodpecker | Leiopicus mahrattensis | Rare |
| Rufous-bellied woodpecker | Dendrocopos hyperythrus | |
| Freckle-breasted woodpecker | Dendrocopos analis | |
| Stripe-breasted woodpecker | Dendrocopos atratus | |
| Crimson-breasted woodpecker | Dryobates cathpharius | |
| Maroon woodpecker | Blythipicus rubiginosus | |
| Bay woodpecker | Blythipicus pyrrhotis | |
| Orange-backed woodpecker | Reinwardtipicus validus | |
| Greater flameback | Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus | |
| Rufous woodpecker | Micropternus brachyurus | |
| Buff-necked woodpecker | Meiglyptes tukki | |
| Buff-rumped woodpecker | Meiglyptes tristis | |
| Black-and-buff woodpecker | Meiglyptes jugularis | |
| Pale-headed woodpecker | Gecinulus grantia | |
| Bamboo woodpecker | Gecinulus viridis | |
| Olive-backed woodpecker | Dinopium rafflesii | Rare |
| Common flameback | Dinopium javanense | |
| Lesser yellownape | Picus chlorolophus | |
| Crimson-winged woodpecker | Picus puniceus | |
| Streak-throated woodpecker | Picus xanthopygaeus | |
| Streak-breasted woodpecker | Picus viridanus | |
| Laced woodpecker | Picus vittatus | |
| Gray-headed woodpecker | Picus canus | |
| Black-headed woodpecker | Picus erythropygius | |
| Banded woodpecker | Chrysophlegma miniaceum | |
| Greater yellownape | Chrysophlegma flavinucha | |
| Checker-throated woodpecker | Chrysophlegma mentale | |
| Great slaty woodpecker | Mulleripicus pulverulentus | |
| White-bellied woodpecker | Dryocopus javensis | |

## Falcons and caracaras

Order: Falconiformes Family: Falconidae
Falconidae is a family of diurnal birds of prey. They differ from hawks, eagles, and kites in that they kill with their beaks instead of their talons.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| White-rumped falcon | Polihierax insignis | |
| Collared falconet | Microhierax caerulescens | |
| Black-thighed falconet | Microhierax fringillarius | |
| Eurasian kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Winter visitor |
| Amur falcon | Falco amurensis | Very rare passage migrant |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Accidental |
| Eurasian hobby | Falco subbuteo | Rare winter visitor |
| Oriental hobby | Falco severus | |
| Peregrine falcon | Falco peregrinus | Mainly winter visitor |

## Old World parrots

Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittaculidae
Characteristic features of parrots include a strong curved bill, an upright stance, strong legs, and clawed zygodactyl feet. Many parrots are vividly coloured, and some are multi-coloured. In size they range from 8 cm (3.1 in) to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length. Old World parrots are found from Africa east across south and southeast Asia and Oceania to Australia and New Zealand.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Blue-rumped parrot | Psittinus cyanurus | Rare, much reduced |
| Alexandrine parakeet | Psittacula eupatria | Rare, much reduced |
| Rose-ringed parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
| Gray-headed parakeet | Psittacula finschii | |
| Blossom-headed parakeet | Psittacula roseata | |
| Red-breasted parakeet | Psittacula alexandri | |
| Vernal hanging-parrot | Loriculus vernalis | |
| Blue-crowned hanging-parrot | Loriculus galgulus | |

## African and green broadbills

Order: Passeriformes Family: Calyptomenidae
The broadbills are small, brightly coloured birds, which feed on fruit and also take insects in flycatcher fashion, snapping their broad bills. Their habitat is canopies of wet forests.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Green broadbill | Calyptomena viridis | |

## Asian and Grauer's broadbills

Order: Passeriformes Family: Eurylaimidae
The broadbills are small, brightly coloured birds, which feed on fruit and also take insects in flycatcher fashion, snapping their broad bills. Their habitat is canopies of wet forests.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Long-tailed broadbill | Psarisomus dalhousiae |
| Dusky broadbill | Corydon sumatranus |
| Silver-breasted broadbill | Serilophus lunatus |
| Black-and-red broadbill | Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos |
| Banded broadbill | Eurylaimus javanicus |
| Black-and-yellow broadbill | Eurylaimus ochromalus |

## Pittas

Order: Passeriformes Family: Pittidae
Pittas are medium-sized stocky passerines with fairly long, strong legs, short tails, and stout bills. Many are brightly coloured. They spend the majority of their time on wet forest floors, eating snails, insects, and similar invertebrate prey.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Garnet pitta | Erythropitta granatina | Rare |
| Eared pitta | Hydrornis phayrei | |
| Rusty-naped pitta | Hydrornis oatesi | |
| Blue-naped pitta | Hydrornis nipalensis | |
| Blue-rumped pitta | Hydrornis soror | |
| Giant pitta | Hydrornis caeruleus | Rare |
| Malayan banded-pitta | Hydrornis irena | |
| Blue pitta | Hydrornis cyaneus | |
| Bar-bellied pitta | Hydrornis elliotii | Rare |
| Gurney's pitta | Hydrornis gurneyi | Rediscovered 1986, rare and endangered |
| Blue-winged pitta | Pitta moluccensis | Summer visitor, passage migrant |
| Fairy pitta | Pitta nympha | Accidental |
| Hooded pitta | Pitta sordida | |
| Mangrove pitta | Pitta megarhyncha | |

## Thornbills and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Acanthizidae
The Acanthizidae are small- to medium-sized birds with short rounded wings, slender bills, long legs, and a short tail. The golden-bellied gerygone is the only member of the family found in mainland Asia.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Golden-bellied gerygone | Gerygone sulphurea | |

## Cuckooshrikes

Order: Passeriformes Family: Campephagidae
The cuckooshrikes are small to medium-sized passerine birds. They are predominantly greyish with white and black, although some minivet species are brightly coloured.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Fiery minivet | Pericrocotus igneus | |
| Small minivet | Pericrocotus cinnamomeus | |
| Grey-chinned minivet | Pericrocotus solaris | |
| Short-billed minivet | Pericrocotus brevirostris | |
| Long-tailed minivet | Pericrocotus ethologus | |
| Scarlet minivet | Pericrocotus speciosus | |
| Ashy minivet | Pericrocotus divaricatus | Winter visitor |
| Brown-rumped minivet | Pericrocotus cantonensis | |
| Rosy minivet | Pericrocotus roseus | Winter visitor |
| Large cuckooshrike | Coracina macei | |
| Bar-bellied cuckooshrike | Coracina striata | Rare, much reduced |
| Javan cuckooshrike | Coracina javensis | Accidental |
| Pied triller | Lalage nigra | |
| Black-winged cuckooshrike | Lalage melaschistos | Resident and winter visitor |
| Lesser cuckooshrike | Lalage fimbriata | |
| Indochinese cuckooshrike | Coracina polioptera | |

## Vireos, shrike-babblers, and erpornis

Order: Passeriformes Family: Vireonidae
Most of the members of this family are found in the New World. However, the shrike-babblers and erpornis, which only slightly resemble the "true" vireos and greenlets, are found in South East Asia.
| Common name | Binomial |
| White-browed shrike-babbler | Pteruthius aeralatus |
| Black-eared shrike-babbler | Pteruthius melanotis |
| Clicking shrike-babbler | Pteruthius intermedius |
| White-bellied erpornis | Erpornis zantholeuca |

## Whistlers and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Pachycephalidae
The family Pachycephalidae includes the whistlers, shrikethrushes, and some of the pitohuis.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Mangrove whistler | Pachycephala cinerea | |

## Old World orioles

Order: Passeriformes Family: Oriolidae
The Old World orioles are colourful passerine birds which are not closely related to the New World orioles.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Dark-throated oriole | Oriolus xanthonotus | |
| Indian golden oriole | Oriolus kundoo | Accidental |
| Black-naped oriole | Oriolus chinensis | Winter visitor |
| Slender-billed oriole | Oriolus tenuirostris | Winter visitor |
| Black-hooded oriole | Oriolus xanthornus | |
| Black-and-crimson oriole | Oriolus cruentus | Accidental |
| Maroon oriole | Oriolus traillii | |
| Silver oriole | Oriolus mellianus | Rare winter visitor, endangered |

## Woodswallows, bellmagpies, and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Artamidae
The woodswallows are soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds. They are smooth, agile flyers with moderately large, semi-triangular wings.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Ashy woodswallow | Artamus fuscus | |
| White-breasted woodswallow | Artamus leucorynchus | Accidental |

## Vangas, helmetshrikes, and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Vangidae
The family Vangidae is highly variable, though most members of it resemble true shrikes to some degree.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Large woodshrike | Tephrodornis virgatus |
| Common woodshrike | Tephrodornis pondicerianus |
| Bar-winged flycatcher-shrike | Hemipus picatus |
| Black-winged flycatcher-shrike | Hemipus hirundinaceus |
| Rufous-winged philentoma | Philentoma pyrhoptera |
| Maroon-breasted philentoma | Philentoma velata |

## Ioras

Order: Passeriformes Family: Aegithinidae
The ioras are bulbul-like birds of open forest or thorn scrub, but whereas that group tends to be drab in colouration, ioras are sexually dimorphic, with the males being brightly plumaged in yellows and greens.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Common iora | Aegithina tiphia |
| Green iora | Aegithina viridissima |
| Great iora | Aegithina lafresnayei |

## Fantails

Order: Passeriformes Family: Rhipiduridae
The fantails are small insectivorous birds with longish, frequently fanned, tails.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Spotted fantail | Rhipidura perlata | Rare |
| Malaysian pied-fantail | Rhipidura javanica | |
| White-throated fantail | Rhipidura albicollis | |
| White-browed fantail | Rhipidura aureola | |

## Drongos

Order: Passeriformes Family: Dicruridae
The drongos are mostly black or dark grey in colour, sometimes with metallic tints. They have long forked tails, and some Asian species have elaborate tail decorations. They have short legs and sit very upright when perched, like a shrike. They flycatch or take prey from the ground.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black drongo | Dicrurus macrocercus | Resident and winter visitor |
| Ashy drongo | Dicrurus leucophaeus | Resident and winter visitor |
| Crow-billed drongo | Dicrurus annectens | Winter visitor and passage migrant |
| Bronzed drongo | Dicrurus aeneus | |
| Lesser racket-tailed drongo | Dicrurus remifer | |
| Hair-crested drongo | Dicrurus hottentottus | Resident and winter visitor |
| Greater racket-tailed drongo | Dicrurus paradiseus | |

## Monarch flycatchers

Order: Passeriformes Family: Monarchidae
The monarch flycatchers are small to medium-sized insectivorous passerines which hunt by gleaning, hovering or flycatching.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black-naped monarch | Hypothymis azurea | |
| Japanese paradise-flycatcher | Terpsiphone atrocaudata | Rare winter visitor, passage migrant |
| Amur paradise-flycatcher | Terpsiphone incei | |
| Blyth's paradise-flycatcher | Terpsiphone affinis | Resident and winter visitor |

## Crested shrikejay

Order: Passeriformes Family: Platylophidae
Until 2018 this species was included in family Corvidae, but genetic and morphological evidence place it in its own family.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Crested shrikejay | Platylophus galericulatus | |

## Shrikes

Order: Passeriformes Family: Laniidae
Shrikes are passerine birds known for the habit of some species of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns. A shrike's beak is hooked, like that of a typical bird of prey.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Tiger shrike | Lanius tigrinus | Fairly common passage migrant |
| Red-backed shrike | Lanius collurio | Accidental |
| Brown shrike | Lanius cristatus | Winter visitor |
| Burmese shrike | Lanius collurioides | Winter visitor |
| Bay-backed shrike | Lanius vittatus | Accidental |
| Long-tailed shrike | Lanius schach | Passage migrant |
| Gray-backed shrike | Lanius tephronotus | Winter visitor |

## Crows, jays, and magpies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae
The family Corvidae includes crows, ravens, jays, choughs, magpies, treepies, nutcrackers, and ground jays. Corvids are above average in size among the Passeriformes, and some of the larger species show high levels of intelligence.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black magpie | Platysmurus leucopterus | |
| Eurasian jay | Garrulus glandarius | |
| Red-billed blue-magpie | Urocissa erythrorhyncha | |
| Common green-magpie | Cissa chinensis | |
| Indochinese green-magpie | Cissa hypoleuca | |
| Rufous treepie | Dendrocitta vagabunda | |
| Gray treepie | Dendrocitta formosae | |
| Racket-tailed treepie | Crypsirina temia | |
| Ratchet-tailed treepie | Temnurus temnurus | Accidental |
| Oriental magpie | Pica serica | Accidental |
| Eurasian magpie | Pica pica | Accidental |
| House crow | Corvus splendens | Introduced species |
| Rook | Corvus frugilegus | Accidental |
| Large-billed crow | Corvus macrorhynchos | |

## Rail-babbler

Order: Passeriformes Family: Eupetidae
The Malaysian rail-babbler is a rail-like passerine bird which inhabits the floor of primary forest in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. It is the only member of its family. The nominate subspecies E. m. macrocerus is found in Thailand.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Malaysian rail-babbler | Eupetes macrocerus | |

## Fairy flycatchers

Order: Passeriformes Family: Stenostiridae
Most of the species of this small family are found in Africa, though a few inhabit tropical Asia. They are not closely related to other birds called "flycatchers".
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Yellow-bellied fairy-fantail | Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus | |
| Gray-headed canary-flycatcher | Culicicapa ceylonensis | |

## Tits, chickadees, and titmice

Order: Passeriformes Family: Paridae
The Paridae are mainly small stocky woodland species with short stout bills. Some have crests. They are adaptable birds, with a mixed diet including seeds and insects.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Fire-capped tit | Cephalopyrus flammiceps |
| Yellow-browed tit | Sylviparus modestus |
| Sultan tit | Melanochlora sultanea |
| Cinereous tit | Parus cinereous |
| Japanese tit | Parus minor |
| Yellow-cheeked tit | Machlolophus spilonotus |

## Larks

Order: Passeriformes Family: Alaudidae
Larks are small terrestrial birds with often extravagant songs and display flights. Most larks are fairly dull in appearance. Their food is insects and seeds.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Horsfield's bushlark | Mirafra javanica | |
| Indochinese bushlark | Mirafra erythrocephala | |
| Greater short-toed lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
| Mongolian short-toed lark | Calandrella dukhunensis | Accidental |
| Oriental skylark | Alauda gulgula | |

## Cisticolas and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Cisticolidae
The Cisticolidae are warblers found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. They are generally very small birds of drab brown or grey appearance found in open country such as grassland or scrub.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Common tailorbird | Orthotomus sutorius |
| Dark-necked tailorbird | Orthotomus atrogularis |
| Ashy tailorbird | Orthotomus ruficeps |
| Rufous-tailed tailorbird | Orthotomus sericeus |
| Burmese prinia | Prinia cooki |
| Brown prinia | Prinia polychroa |
| Hill prinia | Prinia superciliaris |
| Rufescent prinia | Prinia rufescens |
| Gray-breasted prinia | Prinia hodgsonii |
| Yellow-bellied prinia | Prinia flaviventris |
| Plain prinia | Prinia inornata |
| Zitting cisticola | Cisticola juncidis |
| Golden-headed cisticola | Cisticola exilis |

## Reed warblers and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Acrocephalidae
The members of this family are usually rather large for "warblers". Most are rather plain olivaceous brown above with much yellow to beige below. They are usually found in open woodland, reedbeds, or tall grass. The family occurs mostly in southern to western Eurasia and surroundings, but it also ranges far into the Pacific, with some species in Africa.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Thick-billed warbler | Arundinax aedon | Winter visitor |
| Booted warbler | Iduna caligata | Accidental |
| Black-browed reed warbler | Acrocephalus bistrigiceps | Winter visitor |
| Paddyfield warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | Rare winter visitor |
| Blunt-winged warbler | Acrocephalus concinens | Winter visitor |
| Manchurian reed warbler | Acrocephalus tangorum | Winter visitor |
| Blyth's reed warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | Passage migrant |
| Large-billed reed warbler | Acrocephalus orinus | Rare, rediscovered 2006 |
| Oriental reed warbler | Acrocephalus orientalis | Winter visitor |
| Clamorous reed warbler | Acrocephalus stentoreus | Very rare winter visitor |

## Grassbirds and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Locustellidae
Locustellidae are a family of small insectivorous songbirds found mainly in Eurasia, Africa, and the Australian region. They are smallish birds with tails that are usually long and pointed, and tend to be drab brownish or buffy all over.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Marsh grassbird | Helopsaltes pryeri | Accidental |
| Pallas's grasshopper warbler | Helopsaltes certhiola | Winter visitor |
| Lanceolated warbler | Locustella lanceolata | Winter visitor |
| Brown bush warbler | Locustella luteoventris | Rare winter visitor |
| Chinese bush warbler | Locustella tacsanowskia | Very rare winter visitor |
| Baikal bush warbler | Locustella davidi | Winter visitor |
| Spotted bush warbler | Locustella thoracica | Accidental |
| Russet bush warbler | Locustella mandelli | |
| Dalat bush warbler | Locustella idonea | |
| Striated grassbird | Megalurus palustris | |

## Cupwings

Order: Passeriformes Family: Pnoepygidae
The members of this small family are found in mountainous parts of South and South East Asia.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Pygmy cupwing | Pnoepyga pusilla | |

## Swallows

Order: Passeriformes Family: Hirundinidae
The family Hirundinidae is adapted to aerial feeding. They have a slender streamlined body, long pointed wings, and a short bill with a wide gape. The feet are adapted to perching rather than walking, and the front toes are partially joined at the base.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| White-eyed river martin | Pseudochelidon sirintarae | Endemic, critically endangered |
| Gray-throated martin | Riparia chinensis | |
| Bank swallow | Riparia riparia | Winter visitor |
| Pale sand martin | Riparia diluta | Accidental |
| Dusky crag-martin | Ptyonoprogne concolor | |
| Barn swallow | Hirundo rustica | Winter visitor |
| Wire-tailed swallow | Hirundo smithii | |
| Pacific swallow | Hirundo tahitica | |
| Red-rumped swallow | Cecropis daurica | Winter visitor, local breeder |
| Striated swallow | Cecropis striolata | |
| Rufous-bellied swallow | Cecropis badia | |
| Common house-martin | Delichon urbicum | Rare winter visitor |
| Asian house-martin | Delichon dasypus | Winter visitor |
| Nepal house-martin | Delichon nipalensis | One record |

## Bulbuls

Order: Passeriformes Family: Pycnonotidae
Bulbuls are medium-sized songbirds. Some are colourful with yellow, red, or orange vents, cheeks, throats, or supercilia, but most are drab, with uniform olive-brown to black plumage. Some species have distinct crests.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black-and-white bulbul | Brachypodius melanoleucos | Rare |
| Puff-backed bulbul | Brachypodius eutilotus | |
| Black-headed bulbul | Brachypodius melanocephalos | |
| Spectacled bulbul | Rubigula erythropthalmos | |
| Gray-bellied bulbul | Rubigula cyaniventris | |
| Scaly-breasted bulbul | Rubigula squamata | |
| Black-crested bulbul | Rubigula flaviventris | |
| Crested finchbill | Spizixos canifrons | |
| Straw-headed bulbul | Pycnonotus zeylanicus | Rare, Critically endangered |
| Striated bulbul | Pycnonotus striatus | |
| Red-vented bulbul | Pycnonotus cafer | Accidental |
| Red-whiskered bulbul | Pycnonotus jocosus | |
| Brown-breasted bulbul | Pycnonotus xanthorrhous | |
| Light-vented bulbul | Pycnonotus sinensis | |
| Sooty-headed bulbul | Pycnonotus aurigaster | |
| Stripe-throated bulbul | Pycnonotus finlaysoni | |
| Flavescent bulbul | Pycnonotus flavescens | |
| Yellow-vented bulbul | Pycnonotus goiavier | |
| Olive-winged bulbul | Pycnonotus plumosus | |
| Ayeyarwady bulbul | Pycnonotus blanfordi | |
| Streak-eared bulbul | Pycnonotus conradi | |
| Cream-vented bulbul | Pycnonotus simplex | |
| Red-eyed bulbul | Pycnonotus brunneus | |
| Hairy-backed bulbul | Tricholestes criniger | |
| Finsch's bulbul | Alophoixus finschii | |
| Yellow-bellied bulbul | Alophoixus phaeocephalus | |
| Gray-cheeked bulbul | Alophoixus tephrogenys | |
| White-throated bulbul | Alophoixus flaveolus | |
| Ochraceous bulbul | Alophoixus ochraceus | |
| Puff-throated bulbul | Alophoixus pallidus | |
| Buff-vented bulbul | Iole crypta | |
| Gray-eyed bulbul | Iole propinqua | |
| Olive bulbul | Iole virescens | |
| Black bulbul | Hypsipetes leucocephalus | Resident and winter visitor |
| White-headed bulbul | Hypsipetes thompsoni | |
| Ashy bulbul | Hemixos flavala | |
| Cinereous bulbul | Hemixos cinereus | |
| Chestnut bulbul | Hemixos castanonotus | Accidental |
| Mountain bulbul | Ixos mcclellandii | |
| Streaked bulbul | Ixos malaccensis | |

## Leaf warblers

Order: Passeriformes Family: Phylloscopidae
Leaf warblers are a family of small insectivorous birds found mostly in Eurasia and ranging into Wallacea and Africa. The species are of various sizes, often green-plumaged above and yellow below, or more subdued with greyish-green to greyish-brown colours.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Ashy-throated warbler | Phylloscopus maculipennis | Winter visitor |
| Buff-barred warbler | Phylloscopus pulcher | Winter visitor |
| Yellow-browed warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | Winter visitor |
| Hume's warbler | Phylloscopus humei | Winter visitor |
| Chinese leaf warbler | Phylloscopus yunnanensis | Winter visitor |
| Pallas's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus proregulus | Winter visitor |
| Sichuan leaf warbler | Phylloscopus forresti | |
| Radde's warbler | Phylloscopus schwarzi | Winter visitor |
| Yellow-streaked warbler | Phylloscopus armandii | Winter visitor |
| Tickell's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus affinis | Winter visitor |
| Dusky warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | Winter visitor |
| Buff-throated warbler | Phylloscopus subaffinis | Winter visitor |
| Common chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | Accidental |
| Eastern crowned warbler | Phylloscopus coronatus | Winter and passage visitor |
| White-spectacled warbler | Phylloscopus intermedius | Accidental |
| Gray-cheeked warbler | Phylloscopus poliogenys | |
| Green-crowned warbler | Phylloscopus burkii | |
| Gray-crowned warbler | Phylloscopus tephrocephalus | Rare winter visitor |
| Whistler's warbler | Phylloscopus whistleri | |
| Bianchi's warbler | Phylloscopus valentini | Winter visitor |
| Martens's warbler | Phylloscopus omeiensis | Winter visitor |
| Alström's warbler | Phylloscopus soror | Winter visitor |
| Green warbler | Phylloscopus nitidus | Accidental |
| Greenish warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides | Winter visitor |
| Two-barred warbler | Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus | Winter visitor |
| Large-billed leaf warbler | Phylloscopus magnirostris | Winter visitor |
| Pale-legged leaf warbler | Phylloscopus tenellipes | Winter visitor |
| Sakhalin leaf warbler | Phylloscopus borealoides | |
| Japanese leaf warbler | Phylloscopus xanthodryas | Accidental |
| Arctic warbler | Phylloscopus borealis | Winter and passage visitor |
| Kamchatka leaf warbler | Phylloscopus examinandus | |
| Chestnut-crowned warbler | Phylloscopus castaniceps | |
| Yellow-vented warbler | Phylloscopus cantator | Rare winter visitor |
| Sulphur-breasted warbler | Phylloscopus ricketti | Winter visitor |
| Blyth's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus reguloides | Winter visitor |
| Claudia's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus claudiae | Winter visitor |
| Hartert's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus goodsoni | Accidental |
| Davison's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus intensior | |
| Kloss's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus ogilviegranti | |
| Mountain leaf warbler | Phylloscopus trivirgatus | Accidental |

## Bush warblers and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Scotocercidae
The members of this family are found throughout Africa, Asia, and Polynesia. Their taxonomy is in flux, and some authorities place some genera in other families.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Pale-footed bush warbler | Urosphena pallidipes | |
| Asian stubtail | Urosphena squameiceps | Winter visitor |
| Gray-bellied tesia | Tesia cyaniventer | Very rare |
| Slaty-bellied tesia | Tesia olivea | |
| Chestnut-crowned bush warbler | Cettia major | Very rare winter visitor |
| Chestnut-headed tesia | Cettia castaneocoronata | |
| Yellow-bellied warbler | Abroscopus superciliaris | |
| Rufous-faced warbler | Abroscopus albogularis | Rare |
| Mountain tailorbird | Phyllergetes cuculatus | |
| Manchurian bush warbler | Horornis canturians | Rare winter visitor |
| Aberrant bush warbler | Horornis flavolivacea | |

## Long-tailed tits

Order: Passeriformes Family: Aegithalidae
Long-tailed tits are a group of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. They make woven bag nests in trees. Most eat a mixed diet which includes insects.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Black-throated tit | Aegithalos concinnus | |

## Sylviid warblers, parrotbills, and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Sylviidae
The family Sylviidae is a group of small insectivorous passerine birds. They mainly occur as breeding species, as another common name (Old World warblers) implies, in Europe, Asia and, to a lesser extent, Africa. Most are of generally undistinguished appearance, but many have distinctive songs.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Lesser whitethroat | Curruca curruca | Rare winter visitor |
| Yellow-eyed babbler | Chrysomma sinense | |
| Spot-breasted parrotbill | Paradoxornis guttaticollis | |
| Gray-headed parrotbill | Psittiparus gularis | |
| Rufous-headed parrotbill | Psittiparus bakeri | Accidental |
| Short-tailed parrotbill | Neosuthora davidiana | Rare |
| Black-throated parrotbill | Suthola nipalensis | |
| Pale-billed parrotbill | Chleuasicus atrosuperciliaris | Rare |

## White-eyes, yuhinas, and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Zosteropidae
The white-eyes are small birds of rather drab appearance, the plumage above being typically greenish-olive, but some species have a white or bright yellow throat, breast, or lower parts, and several have buff flanks. As the name suggests, many species have a white ring around each eye.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Striated yuhina | Staphida castaniceps | |
| Indochinese yuhina | Staphida torqueola | |
| Whiskered yuhina | Yuhina flavicollis | |
| Burmese yuhina | Yuhina humilis | |
| Chestnut-flanked white-eye | Zosterops erythropleurus | Winter visitor |
| Swinhoe's white-eye | Zosterops simplex | |
| Indian white-eye | Zosterops palpebrosus | |
| Hume's white-eye | Zosterops auriventer | |

## Tree-babblers, scimitar-babblers, and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Timaliidae
The members of this family are somewhat diverse in size and colouration, but are characterised by soft fluffy plumage.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Chestnut-capped babbler | Timalia pileata | |
| Pin-striped tit-babbler | Mixornis gularis | |
| Fluffy-backed tit-babbler | Macronus ptilosus | Rare, much reduced |
| Golden babbler | Cyanoderma chrysaeum | |
| Chestnut-winged babbler | Cyanoderma erythropterum | |
| Rufous-fronted babbler | Cyanoderma rufifrons | |
| Buff-chested babbler | Cyanoderma ambiguum | |
| Naga wren-babbler | Spelaeornis chocolatinus | Accidental |
| Gray-bellied wren-babbler | Spelaeornis reptatus | |
| Black laughingthrush | Melanocichla lugubris | Accidental |
| Coral-billed scimitar-babbler | Pomatorhinus ferruginosus | Rare |
| Red-billed scimitar-babbler | Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps | |
| White-browed scimitar-babbler | Pomatorhinus schisticeps | |
| Sunda scimitar-babbler | Pomatorhinus bornensis | Accidental |
| Large scimitar-babbler | Erythrogenys hypoleucos | |
| Red-eyed scimitar-babbler | Erythrogenys imberbis | |
| Black-throated babbler | Stachyris nigricollis | |
| Chestnut-rumped babbler | Stachyris maculata | |
| Gray-throated babbler | Stachyris nigriceps | |
| Gray-headed babbler | Stachyris poliocephala | |
| White-necked babbler | Stachyris leucotis | Rare |
| Spot-necked babbler | Stachyris strialata | |

## Ground babblers and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Pellorneidae
These small to medium-sized songbirds have soft fluffy plumage but are otherwise rather diverse. Members of the genus Illadopsis are found in forests, but some other genera are birds of scrublands.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Chinese grassbird | Graminicola striatus | Extirpated |
| Large wren-babbler | Turdinus macrodactylus | |
| Sooty-capped babbler | Malacopteron affine | Rare |
| Scaly-crowned babbler | Malacopteron cinereum | |
| Rufous-crowned babbler | Malacopteron magnum | |
| Moustached babbler | Malacopteron magnirostre | |
| Collared babbler | Gampsorhynchus torquatus | |
| Rufous-winged fulvetta | Schoeniparus castaneceps | |
| Rufous-throated fulvetta | Schoeniparus rufogularis | Rare |
| Rusty-capped fulvetta | Schoeniparus dubius | Accidental |
| Puff-throated babbler | Pellorneum ruficeps | |
| Black-capped babbler | Pellorneum capistratum | |
| Short-tailed babbler | Pellorneum malaccense | |
| Spot-throated babbler | Pellorneum albiventre | |
| Buff-breasted babbler | Pellorneum tickelli | |
| White-chested babbler | Pellorneum rostratum | |
| Ferruginous babbler | Pellorneum bicolor | |
| Striped wren-babbler | Kenopia striata | Rare |
| Abbott's babbler | Malacocincla abbotti | |
| Horsfield's babbler | Malacocincla sepiaria | |
| Streaked wren-babbler | Gypsophila brevicaudata | |
| Annam limestone babbler | Gypsophila annamensis | Accidental |
| Rufous limestone babbler | Gypsophila calcicola | Endemic |
| Variable limestone babbler | Gypsophila crispifrons | |
| Eyebrowed wren-babbler | Napothera epilepidota | |

## Laughingthrushes and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Leiothrichidae
The members of this family are diverse in size and colouration, though those of genus Turdoides tend to be brown or greyish. The family is found in Africa, India, and southeast Asia.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Brown-cheeked fulvetta | Alcippe poioicephala | |
| Black-browed fulvetta | Alcippe grotei | |
| Brown fulvetta | Alcippe brunneicauda | |
| Yunnan fulvetta | Alcippe fratercula | |
| Mountain fulvetta | Alcippe peracensis | |
| Himalayan cutia | Cutia nipalensis | Rare |
| Red-tailed laughingthrush | Trochalopteron milnei | Rare |
| Silver-eared laughingthrush | Trochalopteron melanostigma | |
| Malayan laughingthrush | Trochalopteron peninsulae | |
| Long-tailed sibia | Heterophasia picaoides | |
| Black-backed sibia | Heterophasia melanoleuca | |
| Blue-winged minla | Actinodura cyanouroptera | |
| Chestnut-tailed minla | Actinodura strigula | |
| Spectacled barwing | Actinodura ramsayi | |
| Silver-eared mesia | Leiothrix argentauris | |
| Rufous-backed sibia | Leioptila annectens | |
| Scarlet-faced liocichla | Liocichla ripponi | |
| Spot-breasted laughingthrush | Garrulax merulinus | Very rare |
| Lesser necklaced laughingthrush | Garrulax monileger | |
| White-crested laughingthrush | Garrulax leucolophus | |
| White-necked laughingthrush | Garrulax strepitans | |
| Cambodian laughingthrush | Garrulax ferrarius | |
| Chestnut-capped laughingthrush | Pterorhinus mitratus | Rare in far south |
| Black-throated laughingthrush | Pterorhinus chinensis | |
| White-browed laughingthrush | Pterorhinus sannio | |
| Greater necklaced laughingthrush | Pterorhinus pectoralis | |

## Wallcreeper

Order: Passeriformes Family: Tichodromidae
The wallcreeper is the only member of its family. It inhabits the high mountains of Eurasia from southern Europe to central China.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Wallcreeper | Tichodroma muraria | Accidental |

## Nuthatches

Order: Passeriformes Family: Sittidae
Nuthatches are small woodland birds. They have the unusual ability to climb down trees head first, unlike other birds which can only go upwards. Nuthatches have big heads, short tails, and powerful bills and feet.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Chestnut-bellied nuthatch | Sitta cinnamoventris | |
| Burmese nuthatch | Sitta neglecta | |
| Chestnut-vented nuthatch | Sitta nagaensis | |
| Velvet-fronted nuthatch | Sitta frontalis | |
| Blue nuthatch | Sitta azurea | Accidental |
| Giant nuthatch | Sitta magna | Endangered |
| Beautiful nuthatch | Sitta formosa | |

## Treecreepers

Order: Passeriformes Family: Certhiidae
Treecreepers are small woodland birds, brown above and white below. They have thin pointed down-curved bills, which they use to extricate insects from bark. They have stiff tail feathers, like woodpeckers, which they use to support themselves on vertical trees.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Hume's treecreeper | Certhia manipurensis | |

## Spotted elachura

Order: Passeriformes Family: Elachuridae
This species, the only one in its family, inhabits forest undergrowth throughout South East Asia.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Spotted elachura | Elachura formosa | |

## Dippers

Order: Passeriformes Family: Cinclidae
Dippers are a group of perching birds whose habitat includes aquatic environments in the Americas, Europe and Asia. They are named for their bobbing or dipping movements.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Brown dipper | Cinclus pallasii | Rare non-breeding visitor |

## Starlings

Order: Passeriformes Family: Sturnidae
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds. Their flight is strong and direct and they are very gregarious. Their preferred habitat is fairly open country. They eat insects and fruit. Plumage is typically dark with a metallic sheen.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Asian glossy starling | Aplonis panayensis | |
| Golden-crested myna | Ampeliceps coronatus | |
| Common hill myna | Gracula religiosa | |
| European starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Rare winter visitor |
| Rosy starling | Pastor roseus | Very rare winter visitor |
| Daurian starling | Agropsar sturninus | Resident and passage visitor |
| Chestnut-cheeked starling | Agropsar philippensis | Accidental |
| Black-collared starling | Gracupica nigricollis | |
| Siamese pied starling | Gracupica floweri | |
| White-shouldered starling | Sturnia sinensis | Winter visitor |
| Brahminy starling | Sturnia pagodarum | Accidental |
| Chestnut-tailed starling | Sturnia malabarica | Resident and winter visitor |
| Red-billed starling | Spodiopsar sericeus | Accidental |
| White-cheeked starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | Accidental |
| Common myna | Acridotheres tristis | Range expansion through introductions |
| Vinous-breasted myna | Acridotheres leucocephalus | |
| Jungle myna | Acridotheres fuscus | |
| Javan myna | Acridotheres javanicus | Introduced |
| Great myna | Acridotheres grandis | |
| Crested myna | Acridotheres cristatellus | |
| Spot-winged starling | Saroglossa spilopterus | Rare winter visitor |

## Thrushes and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae
The thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly in the Old World. They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium-sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Long-tailed thrush | Zoothera dixoni | Winter visitor |
| Himalayan thrush | Zoothera salimalii | Accidental |
| Dark-sided thrush | Zoothera marginata | |
| White's thrush | Zoothera aurea | |
| Scaly thrush | Zoothera dauma | Winter visitor, resident in mountains |
| Purple cochoa | Cochoa purpurea | Rare |
| Green cochoa | Cochoa viridis | |
| Siberian thrush | Geokichla sibirica | Winter visitor |
| Chestnut-capped thrush | Geokichla interpres | Rare |
| Orange-headed thrush | Geokichla citrina | Winter visitor |
| Chinese blackbird | Turdus mandarinus | |
| Gray-winged blackbird | Turdus boulboul | Rare winter visitor |
| Japanese thrush | Turdus cardis | Accidental |
| Black-breasted thrush | Turdus dissimilis | Rare winter visitor |
| Gray-sided thrush | Turdus feae | Rare winter visitor |
| Eyebrowed thrush | Turdus obscurus | Winter visitor |
| Chestnut thrush | Turdus rubrocanus | Rare winter visitor |
| Black-throated thrush | Turdus atrogularis | Very rare winter visitor |
| Red-throated thrush | Turdus ruficollis | Very rare winter visitor |
| Dusky thrush | Turdus eunomus | Irruptive in winter |
| Naumann's thrush | Turdus naumanni | Accidental |

## Old World flycatchers

Order: Passeriformes Family: Muscicapidae
Old World flycatchers are a large group of small arboreal insectivores. The appearance of these birds is highly varied, but they mostly have weak songs and harsh calls.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Grey-streaked flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | Rare |
| Dark-sided flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | Winter visitor |
| Ferruginous flycatcher | Muscicapa ferruginea | Winter visitor and passage migrant |
| Asian brown flycatcher | Muscicapa daurica | Resident and winter visitor |
| Brown-breasted flycatcher | Muscicapa muttui | Very rare |
| Brown-streaked flycatcher | Muscicapa williamsoni | Resident and passage visitor |
| Oriental magpie-robin | Copsychus saularis | |
| Rufous-tailed shama | Copsychus pyrropygus | Rare |
| White-rumped shama | Copsychus malabaricus | |
| White-gorgeted flycatcher | Anthipes monileger | |
| Rufous-browed flycatcher | Anthipes solitaris | |
| White-tailed flycatcher | Cyornis concretus | Rare |
| Hainan blue flycatcher | Cyornis hainanus | |
| Pale blue flycatcher | Cyornis unicolor | |
| Blue-throated flycatcher | Cyornis rubeculoides | Resident and winter visitor |
| Chinese blue flycatcher | Cyornis glaucicomans | |
| Large blue flycatcher | Cyornis magnirostris | Winter visitor |
| Hill blue flycatcher | Cyornis whitei | |
| Malaysian blue flycatcher | Cyornis turcosus | |
| Indochinese blue flycatcher | Cyornis sumatrensis | |
| Mangrove blue flycatcher | Cyornis rufigastra | |
| Brown-chested jungle-flycatcher | Cyornis brunneatus | Rare on passage |
| Gray-chested jungle-flycatcher | Cyornis umbratilis | Rare in far south |
| Fulvous-chested jungle-flycatcher | Cyornis olivaceus | |
| Large niltava | Niltava grandis | |
| Small niltava | Niltava macgrigoriae | |
| Fujian niltava | Niltava davidi | Rare winter visitor |
| Rufous-bellied niltava | Niltava sundara | Winter visitor |
| Vivid niltava | Niltava vivida | Winter visitor |
| Blue-and-white flycatcher | Cyanoptila cyanomelana | Passage migrant |
| Zappey's flycatcher | Cyanoptila cumatilis | Passage migrant |
| Verditer flycatcher | Eumyias thalassinus | Resident and winter visitor |
| Lesser shortwing | Brachypteryx leucophrys | |
| Himalayan shortwing | Brachypteryx cruralis | |
| Rufous-tailed robin | Larvivora sibilans | Rare winter visitor |
| Japanese robin | Larvivora akahige | |
| Siberian blue robin | Larvivora cyane | Winter visitor |
| White-bellied redstart | Luscinia phaenicuroides | Resident and winter visitor |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | Winter visitor |
| Malayan whistling-thrush | Myophonus robinsoni | Accidental |
| Blue whistling-thrush | Myophonus caeruleus | Resident and winter visitor |
| White-crowned forktail | Enicurus leschenaulti | |
| Chestnut-naped forktail | Enicurus ruficapillus | |
| Black-backed forktail | Enicurus immaculatus | |
| Slaty-backed forktail | Enicurus schistaceus | |
| Firethroat | Calliope pectardens | Accidental |
| Blackthroat | Calliope obscura | Accidental |
| Siberian rubythroat | Calliope calliope | Winter visitor |
| Chinese rubythroat | Calliope tschebaiewi | Accidental |
| White-tailed robin | Myiomela leucura | |
| Blue-fronted robin | Cinclidium frontale | Status uncertain |
| Red-flanked bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | Winter visitor |
| Himalayan bluetail | Tarsiger rufilatus | Winter visitor |
| Golden bush-robin | Tarsiger chrysaeus | Rare winter visitor |
| Yellow-rumped flycatcher | Ficedula zanthopygia | Passage migrant |
| Green-backed flycatcher | Ficedula elisae | winter visitor |
| Narcissus flycatcher | Ficedula narcissina | Accidental |
| Mugimaki flycatcher | Ficedula mugimaki | Winter visitor |
| Slaty-backed flycatcher | Ficedula hodgsonii | Winter visitor |
| Slaty-blue flycatcher | Ficedula tricolor | Winter visitor |
| Snowy-browed flycatcher | Ficedula hyperythra | |
| Pygmy flycatcher | Ficedula hodgsoni | Rare winter visitor |
| Rufous-gorgeted flycatcher | Ficedula strophiata | Winter visitor |
| Sapphire flycatcher | Ficedula sapphira | Winter visitor |
| Little pied flycatcher | Ficedula westermanni | |
| Ultramarine flycatcher | Ficedula superciliaris | Winter visitor |
| Rusty-tailed flycatcher | Ficedula ruficauda | Accidental |
| Taiga flycatcher | Ficedula albicilla | Winter visitor |
| Red-breasted flycatcher | Ficedula parva | Accidental |
| Rufous-chested flycatcher | Ficedula dumetoria | |
| Blue-fronted redstart | Phoenicurus frontalis | Rare winter visitor |
| Plumbeous redstart | Phoenicurus fuliginosus | Resident and winter visitor |
| White-capped redstart | Phoenicurus leucocephalus | Mainly winter visitor |
| Black redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | Accidental |
| Daurian redstart | Phoenicurus auroreus | Winter visitor |
| Chestnut-bellied rock-thrush | Monticola rufiventris | Winter visitor, resident on highest peaks |
| White-throated rock-thrush | Monticola gularis | Winter visitor |
| Blue rock-thrush | Monticola solitarius | Resident (ssp madoci) in far south and winter visitor |
| Amur stonechat | Saxicola stejnegeri | Resident |
| Siberian stonechat | Saxicola maurus | winter visitor |
| Amur stonechat | Saxicola stejnegeri | |
| Pied bushchat | Saxicola caprata | |
| Jerdon's bushchat | Saxicola jerdoni | Rare |
| Gray bushchat | Saxicola ferreus | Resident and winter visitor |
| Northern wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Accidental |
| Isabelline wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | Accidental |
| Desert wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | Accidental |

## Flowerpeckers

Order: Passeriformes Family: Dicaeidae
The flowerpeckers are very small, stout, often brightly coloured birds, with short tails, short thick curved bills, and tubular tongues.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Yellow-breasted flowerpecker | Prionochilus maculatus | |
| Crimson-breasted flowerpecker | Prionochilus percussus | |
| Scarlet-breasted flowerpecker | Prionochilus thoracicus | |
| Thick-billed flowerpecker | Dicaeum agile | |
| Yellow-vented flowerpecker | Dicaeum chrysorrheum | |
| Yellow-bellied flowerpecker | Dicaeum melanozanthum | Uncommon, may breed |
| Orange-bellied flowerpecker | Dicaeum trigonostigma | |
| Plain flowerpecker | Dicaeum minullum | |
| Fire-breasted flowerpecker | Dicaeum ignipectus | |
| Scarlet-backed flowerpecker | Dicaeum cruentatum | Rare resident in far south |

## Sunbirds and spiderhunters

Order: Passeriformes Family: Nectariniidae
The sunbirds and spiderhunters are very small passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Their flight is fast and direct on short wings. Most species can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perch to feed.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Ruby-cheeked sunbird | Chalcoparia singalensis | |
| Plain sunbird | Anthreptes simplex | |
| Brown-throated sunbird | Anthreptes malacensis | |
| Red-throated sunbird | Anthreptes rhodolaemus | Rare |
| Van Hasselt's sunbird | Leptocoma brasiliana | |
| Copper-throated sunbird | Leptocoma calcostetha | |
| Purple sunbird | Cinnyris asiaticus | |
| Olive-backed sunbird | Cinnyris jugularis | |
| Fire-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga ignicauda | |
| Black-throated sunbird | Aethopyga saturata | |
| Mrs. Gould's sunbird | Aethopyga gouldiae | Winter visitor |
| Green-tailed sunbird | Aethopyga nipalensis | Resident in mountains |
| Temminck's sunbird | Aethopyga temminckii | Rare |
| Crimson sunbird | Aethopyga siparaja | |
| Purple-naped spiderhunter | Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum | |
| Thick-billed spiderhunter | Arachnothera crassirostris | |
| Long-billed spiderhunter | Arachnothera robusta | Rare |
| Little spiderhunter | Arachnothera longirostra | |
| Yellow-eared spiderhunter | Arachnothera chrysogenys | |
| Spectacled spiderhunter | Arachnothera flavigaster | |
| Streaked spiderhunter | Arachnothera magna | |
| Gray-breasted spiderhunter | Arachnothera modesta | |

## Fairy-bluebirds

Order: Passeriformes Family: Irenidae
The fairy-bluebirds are bulbul-like birds of open forest or thorn scrub. The males are dark-blue and the females a duller green.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Asian fairy-bluebird | Irena puella | |

## Leafbirds

Order: Passeriformes Family: Chloropseidae
The leafbirds are small, bulbul-like birds. The males are brightly plumaged, usually in greens and yellows.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Greater green leafbird | Chloropsis sonnerati |
| Lesser green leafbird | Chloropsis cyanopogon |
| Blue-winged leafbird | Chloropsis cochinchinensis |
| Golden-fronted leafbird | Chloropsis aurifrons |
| Orange-bellied leafbird | Chloropsis hardwickii |

## Weavers and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Ploceidae
The weavers are small passerine birds related to the finches. They are seed-eating birds with rounded conical bills. The males of many species are brightly coloured, usually in red or yellow and black, but some species show variation in colour only in the breeding season.
| Common name | Binomial |
| Streaked weaver | Ploceus manyar |
| Baya weaver | Ploceus philippinus |
| Asian golden weaver | Ploceus hypoxanthus |

## Waxbills and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Estrildidae
The estrildid finches are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They are gregarious and often colonial seed eaters with short thick but pointed bills. They are all similar in structure and habits, but have wide variation in plumage colours and patterns.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Java sparrow | Padda oryzivora | Introduced, endangered |
| Scaly-breasted munia | Lonchura punctulata | |
| White-rumped munia | Lonchura striata | |
| White-bellied munia | Lonchura leucogastra | |
| Chestnut munia | Lonchura atricapilla | |
| White-headed munia | Lonchura maja | |
| Pin-tailed parrotfinch | Erythrura prasina | |
| Red avadavat | Amandava amandava | |

## Old World sparrows

Order: Passeriformes Family: Passeridae
Sparrows are small passerine birds, typically small, plump, brown or grey with short tails and short powerful beaks. They are seed-eaters, but also consume small insects.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| House sparrow | Passer domesticus | Recent colonist |
| Russet sparrow | Passer cinnamomeus | Rare winter visitor |
| Plain-backed sparrow | Passer flaveolus | |
| Eurasian tree sparrow | Passer montanus | |

## Wagtails and pipits

Order: Passeriformes Family: Motacillidae
Motacillidae is a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails and comprises the wagtails, longclaws, and pipits. These are slender ground-feeding insectivores of open country.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Forest wagtail | Dendronanthus indicus | Winter visitor |
| Gray wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | Winter visitor |
| Western yellow wagtail | Motacilla flava | Winter visitor |
| Eastern yellow wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | |
| Citrine wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Winter visitor |
| Mekong wagtail | Motacilla samveasnae | |
| White wagtail | Motacilla alba | Winter visitor |
| Richard's pipit | Anthus richardi | Winter visitor |
| Paddyfield pipit | Anthus rufulus | |
| Blyth's pipit | Anthus godlewskii | Accidental |
| Rosy pipit | Anthus roseatus | Localised winter visitor |
| Olive-backed pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | Winter visitor |
| Red-throated pipit | Anthus cervinus | Winter visitor |
| American pipit | Anthus rubescens | Accidental |

## Finches, euphonias, and allies

Order: Passeriformes Family: Fringillidae
Finches are small to moderately large seed-eating passerine birds with a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have 12 tail feathers and nine primary flight feathers. Finches have a bouncing flight, alternating bouts of flapping with gliding on closed wings, and most sing well.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Common chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | Accidental |
| Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | Accidental |
| Collared grosbeak | Mycerobas affinis | Accidental |
| Spot-winged grosbeak | Mycerobas melanozanthos | |
| Yellow-billed grosbeak | Eophona migratoria | Accidental |
| Japanese grosbeak | Eophona personata | Accidental |
| Common rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | Winter visitor |
| Scarlet finch | Carpodacus sipahi | |
| Dark-breasted rosefinch | Carpodacus nipalensis | Winter visitor |
| Oriental greenfinch | Chloris sinica | Rare winter visitor |
| Black-headed greenfinch | Chloris ambigua | Rare winter visitor |

## Longspurs and snow buntings

Order: Passeriformes Family: Calcariidae
The Calcariidae are a family of birds that had been traditionally grouped with the New World sparrows, but differ in a number of respects and are usually found in open grassy areas.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Lapland longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | Accidental |

## Old World buntings

Order: Passeriformes Family: Emberizidae
The emberizids are a large family of seed-eating birds with distinctively shaped bills. Many emberizid species have distinctive head patterns.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
| Crested bunting | Emberiza lathami | Winter visitor |
| Black-headed bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | Accidental |
| Red-headed bunting | Emberiza bruniceps | Accidental |
| Chestnut-eared bunting | Emberiza fucata | Winter visitor |
| Pine bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | Accidental |
| Gray-necked bunting | Emberiza buchanani | Rare |
| Yellow-breasted bunting | Emberiza aureola | Winter visitor, critically endangered |
| Little bunting | Emberiza pusilla | Winter visitor |
| Black-faced bunting | Emberiza spodocephala | Rare winter visitor |
| Chestnut bunting | Emberiza rutila | Winter visitor |
| Tristram's bunting | Emberiza tristrami | Accidental |