Bird Species seen in The Gambia 30th January to 6th February 2007

 

Little Grebe
Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
Hamerkop
Great Cormorant
Long-tailed Cormorant
African Darter
White-backed Night Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Cattle Egret
Squacco Heron
Striated Heron
Black Egret
Intermediate Egret
Western Reef Heron
Little Egret
Great White Egret
Black-headed Heron
Grey Heron
Goliath Heron
Purple Heron
Woolly-necked Stork
Marabou Stork
African Spoonbill
White-faced Whistling Duck
Sacred Ibis
Osprey
African Harrier-hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
Pied Crow
Hooded Vulture
Ruppell's Griffon Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Martial Eagle
Wahlberg's Eagle
African Hawk Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Bateleur
Brown Snake Eagle
Black Kite
Grasshopper Buzzard
Black-shouldered Kite
Montagu's Harrier
Eurasian Marsh Harrier
Dark Chanting Goshawk
Shikra
Ovambo Sparrowhawk
Lizard Buzzard
Lanner Falcon
Red-necked Falcon
Grey Kestrel
Common Kestrel
Double-spurred Francolin
Stone Partridge
Four-banded Sandgrouse
Common Moorhen
Black Crake
Greater Painted-Snipe
African Jacana
African Finfoot
Egyptian Plover
Collared Pratincole
Senegal Thick-Knee
Black-headed Plover
Spur-winged Plover
Wattled Plover
Grey Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Ringed Plover
Whimbrel
Black-tailed Godwit
Common Greenshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Ruddy Turnstone
Little Stint
Sanderling
Dunlin
Black-headed Gull
Grey-headed Gull
Slender-billed Gull
Kelp Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Lesser Crested Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Little Tern
Laughing Dove
Blue-spotted Wood Dove
Black-billed Wood Dove
Speckled Pigeon
Bruce's Green Pigeon
African Green Pigeon
Namaqua Dove
Red-eyed Dove
African Mourning Dove
Vinaceous Dove
Piapiac
Yellowbill
Senegal Coucal
Klaas's Cuckoo
Verreaux's Eagle Owl
White-faced Scops Owl
Pearl-spotted OwletLong-tailed Nightjar
White-rumped Swift
Little Swift
African Palm Swift
Green Wood Hoopoe
Giant Kingfisher
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Broad-billed Roller
Blue-bellied Roller
Rufous-crowned Roller
Abyssinian Roller
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Senegal Parrot
Violet Turaco
Western Grey Plantain-eater
Green Turaco
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
Bearded Barbet
Viellot's Barbet
African Pied Hornbill
Red-billed Hornbill
African Grey Hornbill
Grey Woodpecker
Fine-spotted Woodpecker
Greater Honeyguide
Black-crowned Sparrow-lark
Crested Lark
Plain-backed Pipit
Fanti Saw-wing
Wire-tailed Swallow
Mosque Swallow
Rufous-chested Swallow
Barn Swallow
Red-chested Swallow
Sand Martin
African Golden Oriole
Fork-tailed Drongo
Yellow Wagtail
White Wagtail
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Common Bulbul
Yellow-throated Leaflove
Little Greenbul
Grey-headed Bristlebill
Oriole Warbler
Blackcap Babbler
Brown Babbler
Whinchat
Northern Wheatear
White-crowned Robin-chat
Snowy-crowned Robin-chat
African Thrush
Reed Warbler
Melodious Warbler
Subalpine Warbler
Chiffchaff
Western Bonelli's Warbler
Zitting Cisticola
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Northern Crombec
Grey-backed Cameroptera
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Yellow White-eye
Yellow Penduline Tit
White-shouldered Black Tit
Common Wattle-eye
Northern Black Flycatcher
African Paradise Flycatcher
Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher
Collared Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Mouse-brown Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Splendid Sunbird
Beautiful Sunbird
Copper Sunbird
Black-crowned Tchagra
Brubru
Yellow-crowned Gonolek
White-Crested Helmet Shrike
Woodchat Shrike
Yellow-billed Shrike
Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Glossy Starling
Purple Glossy Starling
Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Yellow-fronted Canary
House Sparrow
Grey-headed Sparrow
White-billed Buffalo Weaver
Northern Red Bishop
Village Weaver
Black-necked Weaver
Orange-cheeked Waxbill
Lavender Waxbill
Black-rumped Waxbill
Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu
Red-billed Firefinch
African Silverbill
Bronze Mannikin
Pin-tailed Whydah
Village Indigobird
Western Bluebill 

Total 224 

A wide selection of photos can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/suerob/sets/72157594525960272/ 

Photos used to illustrate this report are copyright of Sue Robinson.

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