List of birds of Greece

This is a list of the bird species recorded in Greece. The avifauna of Greece included a total of 478 species according to the Hellenic Rarities Committee of the Hellenic Ornithological Society (Ελληνική Ορνιθολογική Εταιρεία) with supplemental additions from Avibase as of May 2023. Of them, four have not been recorded since 1950 and 7 have been introduced by humans.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

The following tags have been used to highlight several categories of occurrence. Species without tags are regularly occurring residents, migrants, or seasonal visitors which have been recorded since 1 January 1950.

• (*) Rare in Greece; reports of these 119 species require submission to the Hellenic Rarities Committee for inclusion in the official record.
• (B) Species which have not occurred in Greece since 1 January 1950.
• (C) Species that do not occur naturally in Greece, although breeding populations have been introduced by humans.
• (Ex) Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in Greece although populations exist elsewhere