There are 576 species of birds in the Gambia.
We cannot guarantee that you will see them all. Who knows
though, you might find the 577th species
The wading birds were seen during a canoe trip on the Allahein
river all of the others, except the Owl chicks, were taken
within 50 metres of Footsteps.
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| Lizard Buzzard |
Barn Owl Chicks |
Red Billed Hornbill |
Cordon Bleu |
Red Billed Fire Finch |
Lavender Waxbill |
Olive Bellied Sunbird |
| Blue Cheeked Bee-eater |
Tern |
Tern |
Osprey |
Grey Headed Sparrow |
Grey Heron |
Grey Hornbill |
| Vulture |
Rose Ringed Parakeet |
Orange Cheeked Waxbill |
Plantain Eater |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Spur Winged Plovers |
Grey Heron |
| Black-billed
Wood Dove |
Village Weaver |
Bronze Manniken |
Osprey |
Osprey |
Yellow Billed
Oxpecker |
Grey Heron |
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Brufut Woods White Fronted Black Chat, Red
Shouldered Cuckoo Shrike, Swallow-tailed Bee-Eater, Sudan Golden
Sparrow, Common White Eye, Verreaux's Eagle Owl, White-Faced Scops Owl,
Pin Tailed Whydah, Yellow Fronted Tinker Bird, Exclamatory Paradise
Whydah, Violet-backed Starling,
Striped Kingfisher, Woodland Kingfisher, Senegal Battis, Green-backed
Eremomela, African Pied Hornbill.
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Tanji River Bird Reserve a government-protected area of
612 hectares which includes forest, lagoons, mudflats and salt marshes.
Gray-backed Camaroptera, Zitting Cisticola, Croaking Cisticola, Siffling
Cisticola, Singing Cisticola, Olivaceous Warbler.
On the ocean side there are Caspian Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Sandwich
Tern, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Royal Tern, Kelp Gull, Sanderling,
Dunlin, Black-winged Stilt, Common Sand Piper, Ruddy Turn Stone, Black
Tailed Godwit, Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Eurasian Curlew, Common Red
Shank.
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Tujering Village Woods Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver,
White-fronted Black Chat, Little Weaver, Black-necked Weaver,
Yellow-fronted Canary,
Fine-spotted Woodpecker, Brown-backed Woodpecker, Greater Honeyguide,
Bearded Barbet, Vieillot's Barbet. Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Dark
Chanting Goshawk, Shikra, Lizard Buzzard, Lanner Falcon, Grey Kestrel.
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| Weaver Chick |
Collard Dove |
Wattled Plover |
Ducklings |
Oyster Catcher |
Pied Kinfisher |
Kartong Village Riverside African Skimmer, African
Harrier-Hawk, Osprey, White Fronted Plover, Black Headed Plover,
Blue-cheeked Bee-Eater, Namaqua Dove, Crested Lark, Blue-bellied Roller,
Rufous-crowned Roller, Abyssinian Roller, Broad-billed Roller, Striped
Kingfisher, Red-chested Swallow, Violet Turaco, Green Turaco, Western
Grey Plantain-eater. Fork-tailed Drongo. Green Wood Hoopoe, Spotted
Creeper, Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat,
White-crowned Robin-Chat.
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| Marikissa Wood and Riverside Blue Flycatcher,
Northern Black Flycatcher, African Paradise Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied
Hyliota, Common Wattle-eye, Spotted Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher, African
Paradise Flycatcher. |
Darsilami Village Martial Eagle, Crowned Eagle,
Bateleur Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Short-toed Eagle, Grasshopper Buzzard
, Black-shouldered Kite,
Palm-nut Vulture, Osprey, Green Fruit-pigeon, Bruce's Green Pigeon,
Black-headed Heron, Purple Heron, Great White Egret, African Spoonbill,
Yellow-billed Stork, Sacrid Ibis, Green-backed Heron, White-faced
Whistling Duck, Hamerkop. |
Abuko Nature Reserve Western Bluebill, Levaillant's
Cuckoo, Klaas's Cuckoo, Ahanta Francolin, Double-spurred Francolin,
Variable Sunbird,
Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Copper Sunbird, Western Violet-backed Sunbird,
Black-crown Night Heron, African Darter, Black Crake. |
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Lamin Lodge is great for seeing birds and also to have
a trip in the river Gambia where alongside an interesting array of birds
you can also see the local women fetching oysters and firewood. Great
White Pelican, Pink Backed Pelican, Sandwich Tern, Long Tailed
Cormorant. African Darter can all be seen here. |
The list of birds in The Gambia is to large to show on this page. For a
full listing
by Wikipedia
click here |
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