bg – bul – Български – Bulgarian | About 7 million speakers, in Bulgaria and some of the neighbouring countries, and in the diaspora | Avionary Species Coverage about 98%. | The “List of the Birds Recorded in Bulgaria” of the Bulgarian National Rarities Committee (BuNaRCo), 2nd Edition of December 2014, kindly provided by Petar Iankov of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB), forms the basis of the Bulgarian names. Petar Iankov provided further names and Zlatozar Boev and Simeon Gigov independently provided Bulgarian names for all birds in the world in 2025. In the various cases where a species name differed among the three, Avionary chose the name which appeared to be closest to the characteristics and/or the name in other languages. In the past, Tanyo Michev of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and by Ivaylo Angelov of the BSPB, helped with providing Bulgarian bird names. The Bulgarian names are also listed on the relevant species list F, together with other South Slavic languages: la/hr/sr/mk/bg..
