List of birds of Corsica

Engraving of Corsican nuthatches from John Whitehead's list of Corsican birds published in 1885[1]

This list of birds of Corsica includes the 367 bird species that have been recorded on Corsica.

Corsica is a French island in the Mediterranean Sea west of the Italian Peninsula, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the Italian island of Sardinia. Mountains make up two-thirds of the island, forming a single chain. The island has an area of 8,722 km2 (3,368 sq mi) and measures 183 km (114 mi) in length (north to south) and 83 km (52 mi) east to west.[2]

The status of each species is based on the annotated list by Jean-Claude Thibault and Gilles Bonaccorsi published in 1999 with supplemental additions from Avibase. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.[3] The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Accidental species are included in the total species count for Corsica.


  1. ^ Whitehead 1885.
  2. ^ Thibault & Bonaccorsi 1999, p. 1.
  3. ^ Clements, James F. (2007). Birds of the World: A Checklist, 6th edition. Cornell University Press.