List of birds of Hungary

The saker falcon is the national bird of Hungary.

This is a list of the bird species recorded in Hungary. The avifauna of Hungary included a total of 397 confirmed species as of 2022, according to Hungarianbirdwatching.com.[1] Of them, 106 are rare or accidental and six have been introduced by humans. None are endemic.

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 Hungarian names in parentheses are from Hungarianbirdwatching.com.

The following tags have been used to highlight some categories of occurrence; the tags are from Bird Checklists of the World.[3]

  • (A) Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Hungary
  • (I) Introduced - a species introduced to Hungary as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions, and has become established



  1. ^ "Birds of Hungary". Hungarianbirdwatching.com. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Lepage, Denis (March 13, 2021). "Checklist of Birds of Hungary". Bird Checklists of the World. Avibase. Retrieved April 15, 2021.