The bee-eater (_Merops Persicus_) is rare.

It is a bird of passage, and only visits Media in the autumn, preparatory to retreating into the warm district of Mazandoran for the winter months.

The hoopoe (_Upupa_) is probably still rarer, since very few travellers mention it.

The woodpecker is found in Zagros, and is a beautiful bird, red and gray in color.
Media is, on the whole, but scantily provided with fish.

Lake Urumiyeh produces none, as its waters are so salt that they even destroy all the river-fish which enter them.