Fågelsta is a locality situated in Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 297 inhabitants in 2017.

[1] Fågelsta grew around a railway line between Hallsberg and Mjölby, which began operations in 1873.

One terminus of the narrow-gauge heritage railway Wadstena Fogelsta Järnväg is in Fågelsta, the other being in Vadstena.

In the middle of the 20th century the town had a tailor, cobbler, and a small bank office which was open a few evenings each week.

There was also a taxi, a local representative of the government (vaguely equivalent to a sheriff), and a fire station with two engines manned by volunteers.