The Oriental Bird Club (OBC) is a British-based club which exists to advance ornithology in the Oriental zoogeographical region. Its aims are to encourage an interest in wild birds of the Oriental region and their conservation, promote the work of regional bird and nature societies, and to collate and publish information on Oriental birds.
The OBC's geographical area of interest ranges from the Indus River, Pakistan, in the west, through India and south-east Asia to Wallace's line, eastern Indonesia, in the east, and from Mongolia, north-east Russia (east of 90°E), and Japan in the north, to the Lesser Sundas and Christmas Island in the south.
The OBC publishes the journal Forktail as well as a magazine BirdingASIA. It has also published a checklist of the birds of the region in 1996, An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Oriental Region.