Friday 9 March 2018

Birding in the Gambia 8th to 20th February 2018 - List by date of aquisition

For the purposes of our visit we record the date and location of each species as we first see it. Therefore this list is somewhat less than systematic.
Total seen 282.

8/02/2018
Yoba (en route to Tanji Eco-lodges)
1. Blue-bellied Roller

Tanji Bird Reserve
2. Laughing Dove
3. Royal Tern
4.Grey-headed Gull
5. Arctic Skua
6. Yellow-billed Kite
7. Palmnut Vulture
8. Lesser Black-backed Gull
9. Osprey
10. Common Bulbul
11. Storm Petrel
12. Caspian Tern
13. Grey-backed Camaroptera
14. Kelp Gull
15. Whitethroat
16. Gull-billed Tern
17. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
18. Roseate Tern
19. Bronze Mannequin
20. Crested Lark
21. Yellow Wagtail
22. Black-billed Wood Dove
23. Brown Babbler
24. Northern Crombec
25. African Palm Swift
26. Barn Swallow
27. Red-chested Swallow
28. Western Grey Plantain-eater
29. Little Bee-eater
30. Red-eyed Dove
31. Red-billed Firefinch
32. Western Reef Heron
33. Pied Crow

9/2/2018
Tanji Bird Reserve
34. Whimbrel
35. African Pied Hornbill
36. African Thrush
37. Blackcap
38. Snowy-crowned Robin Chat
39. Western Bluebill
40. Black-necked Weaver
41. Village Weaver
42. African Paradise Flycatcher
43. Common Wattle-eye
44. Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher
45. Hooded Vulture
46. Redshank
47. Greenshank
48. Bar-tailed Godwit
49. Sanderling
50. Grey Plover
51. Little Egret
52. Little Tern
53. Grey Heron
54. Slender-billed Gull
54. Green-headed Sunbird
56. Common Sandpiper
57. African Spoonbill
58. Red-billed Hornbill
59. Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
60. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
61. Little Greenbul
62. Yellow White-eye
63. Lavendar Waxbill
64. Shikra
65. Pied Kingfisher
66. Common Ringed Plover
67. Turnstone
68. Blue-spotted Wood-dove

Tujereng (Farakunku)
69. Namaqua Dove
70. African Mourning Dove
71. Yellow-crowned Gonolek
72. Blackcap Babbler
73. Piapiac
74. Beautiful Sunbird
75. Long-tailed Glossy Starling
76. Grey Woodpecker
77. Vinaceous Dove
78. Senegal Parrot
79. Greater Honeyguide
80. Yellow-billed Shrike
81. Fine-spotted Woodpecker
82. Fork-tailed Drongo
83. Speckled Pigeon
84. African Wattled Lapwing
85. Green Wood-hoopoe
86. Ring-necked Parakeet

10/2/2018
Abuko
87. Giant Kingfisher
88. Senegal Coucal
89. African Jacan
90. Black Heron
91. Squacco Heron
92. Striated Heron
93. African Darter
94. Purple Heron
95. African Harrier Hawk
96. Fanti Saw-wing
97. African Pygmy Kingfisher
98. Western Olivaceous Warbler
99. Violet Turaco
100. Northern Puffback
101. Black Crake
102. Oriole Warbler

Tanbi Wetlands
103. Sandwich Tern
104. Western Subalpine Warbler
105. Senegal Eremomela
106. Great White Egret
107. Western Marsh Harrier

Lamin ricefields
108. Cattle Egret
109. Marsh Sandpiper
110. Hammerkop
111. Black-headed Heron
112. Intermediate Heron
113. Lizzard Buzzard
114. Senegal Thick-knee
115. Golden-tailed Woodpecker
116. Black Kite
117. Wood Sandpiper
118. Northern White-faced Scops Owl
119. Long-tailed Cormorant
120. Spur-winged Plover
121. Greater Painted-snipe

11/2/2018
Brufut
122. Purple Glossy Starling
123. White-bellied Buffalo Weaver
124. African Golden Oriole
125. African Grey Hornbill
126. Common Chiff-chaff
127. Northern Black Flycatcher
128. Copper Sunbird
129. Yellow-throated Leaflove
130. Yellow-fronted Canary
131. Variable Sunbird
132. African Green Pigeon
133. Grey Kestrel
134. Village Indigobird
135. Lanner
136. Western Violet-backed Sunbird
137. Northern Red Bishop
138. Black-winged Bishop
139. White-crowned Robin-chat

Brufut Wood
140. Little Weaver
141 .Orange-cheeked Waxbill
142. Cardinal Woodpecker
143. Splendid Sunbird
144. Long-tailed Nightjar

Tenji
145. Little Swift

Tujureng Lagoon
146. Common Snipe
147. Scared Ibis
148. Little Ringed Plover
149. Broad-billed Roller
150. Black-winged Stilt
151. Green Sandpiper
152. Spotted Redshank
153. Woodchat Shrike
154. Tawny Eagle
155. Great Snipe
156. Spur-winged Goose
157. Sedge Warbler
158. Kittiltz's Plover
159. African Collared Dove

Tujereng (Frankunku)
160. Scarlet-chested Sunbird

12/2/2018Tujereng (Frankunku)
161. Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
162. African Scops Owl
163. Pearl-spotted Owlet

Farasutu 
164. Sulphar-breasted Shrike
165. Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
166. Tawny-flanked Prinia
167. Black-headed Weaver
168. African Wood Owl
169. Mottled Spinetail
170. White-throated Bee-eater
171. Black-rumped Waxbill
172. Yellow-breasted Apala
173. Melodious Warbler

Bonto Forest
174. Verreaux's Eagle Owl

Fara Bonta
175. Dark Chanting Goshawk
176. Vielliot's Barbet
177. European Bee-eater
178. Common Redstart
179. Booted Eagle
180. Black-headed Lapwing

13/2/2018
Penyum
181. Singing Cisticola
182. Red-billed Quela
183. Pin-tailed Wydah
184. European Hoopoe
185. Western Banded Snake Eagle
186. Common Kestrel
187. African Hawk Eagle
Darsilami
188 .Plain-backed Pipit
189. Whinchat
190. Abyssinian Roller

14/2/2018
Farasutu

191. Four-banded Sandgrouse
192. Bruce's Green Pigeon
193. Black-shouldered Kite
194. Greyish Eagle Owl
195. Black-crowned Tchagra
196. Standard-winged Nightjar
197. Pied-winged Swallow
198. Bearded Barbet

Somita
199. Rufous-crowned Roller
200. Beaudouin's Snake Eagle
201. Pygmy Sunbird
202. Long-crested Eagle

Kampanti
203 .Grasshopper Buzzard
204. Western Bonelli's Warbler

Kwinella
205. Brown Snake Eagle

Tendaba
206. Pink-backed Pelican
207. White-breasted Cormorant
208. African Finfoot
209. Black-crowned Night-heron
210. White-backed Night-heron
211. Goliath Heron
212. Montagu's Harrier
213. Malachite Kingfisher
214. Blue-breasted Kingfisher
215. Wire-tailed Swallow
216. White Wagtail
217. Brown Sunbird
218. Woolly-necked Stork

15/2/2018
Kwinella

219. Yellow-billed Oxpecker
220. Greater Blue-eared Starling
221. Timminck's Courser
222. Flappet Lark
223. Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
224. Northern Wheatear

Warokang
225.Chestnut-backed Sparrow Lark
226. Tawny Pipit
227. West African Swallow
228. Bush Petronia

Batteling
229. Red-winged Warbler
230. Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver

Tendaba
231. Great White Pelican
232. Bronze-winged Courser
233. Black Scimitarbill
234. White-shoulder Black Tit
235. Vitelline Masked Weaver
236. Cut-throated Finch
237. White-rumped Seedeater

16/2/2018
Tendaba

238. Yellow-billed Stork
239. African Hobby
240. Helmeted Gunieafowl
241. Stone Partridge
242. Common Sand Martin
243. Zitting Cisticola
244. Lead-coloured Flycatcher
245. Grey-headed Bush-shrike
246. Red-headed Quelea
247. Red-necked Falcon
248. Gabar Goshawk
249. Little Stint
250. Mosque Swallow
251. Yellow-crowned Bishop
252. Brown-rumped Bunting

17/2/2018
Warokang

253. Lesser Kestrel
254. Common House Martin

Kampanti
255. Marabou Stork
256. African White-backed Vulture
257. Bateleur
258. Martial Eagle
259. Wahlberg's Eagle

18/2/2018
Tujereng
260. Striped Kingfisher
261. Brown-backed Woodpecker
262. Eurasian Wryneck
263. White-fronted Black-chat
264. Rufous Cisticola
265. Chestnut-billed Starling

Kotu
266. Hadada Ibis
267. Double-spurred Francolin
268. African Silverbill
269. Little Grebe

19/2/2018
Kartong

270. Common Moorhen
271. Lesser Moorhen
272. Allen's Gullinule
273. Purple Swamphen
274. Tree Pipit
275. Reed Warbler
276. House Bunting
277. White-fronted Plover
278. Eurasian Oystercatcher
279. Curlew Sandpiper
280. Dunlin
281. Kentish Plover

20/2/2018
Banjul Airport 

282. House Sparrow