This is a list of the bird species recorded in Austria. The avifauna of Austria included a total of 458 species as of July 2023 according to the Avifaunistic Commission of BirdLife Austria (Avifaunistische Kommission, AFK) with supplemental additions from Avibase.[1] Of them, 9 have been introduced by humans. Eighteen species have not been recorded in the wild since 1950.
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.[2]
The following tags are used in the status column to define several categories of occurrence; the definitions are those of the AFK.
- A: Accidental – species having "either less than 15 records in total or a maximum of 5 records [since 1997] irrespective of the total number of records"
- H: Historical – "Recorded in a wild state in Austria only between 1800 and 31 December 1949."
- I: Introduced – "Established in Austria as self-sustaining breeding species by man."
- ^ Ranner, Andreas (December 2021). "List of Austrian Bird Species" (in German). BirdLife Austria. Retrieved December 5, 2022.
- ^ Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ Retrieved October 25, 2022.