This is a list of the bird species recorded in Denmark. The avifauna of Denmark included a total of 511 species recorded in the wild by June 2023 according to Bird List of Denmark with supplemental additions from Avibase.[1] Of these species, four have been introduced by humans.
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 Danish Ornithological Society (Dansk Ornitologisk Forening, DOF) uses the following tags to highlight some occurrence categories. Those without tags are tagged as historical and "have been recorded in an apparently wild state in Denmark since 1st January 1950" according to DOF. Note that these tags have been slightly altered to better fit Wikipedia standards and thus do not have the same names as used by the DOF.
- (A) Accidental - species which require submission to the Danish Rarities Committee of DOF for the sighting to be included in the official record.
- (H) Historical - species which naturally occurred in Denmark before 1 January 1950 but have not been recorded since then
- (I) Introduced - species introduced by humans, directly or indirectly, and which have established feral breeding populations
- ^ "Bird list of Denmark". Danish Ornithological Society. October 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ 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.