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Complete list of species seen on Birdfinders' tour of Gambia, November 2000


Little Grebe Long-tailed Cormorant Great Cormorant African Darter Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican Black Egret Little Egret Western Reef-egret Grey Heron
Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Purple Heron Great Egret Intermediate Egret
Cattle Egret Squacco Heron Striated Heron Black-crowned
Night-heron
White-backed
Night-heron
Hammerkop Yellow-billed Stork Woolly-necked Stork Marabou Stork Hadada Ibis
Sacred Ibis European Spoonbill African Spoonbill White-faced
Whistling-duck
Black-bellied
Whistling-duck
Spur-winged Goose African Pygmy-goose Knob-billed (Comb) Duck Black-shouldered Kite Black Kite
Black (Yellow-billed) Kite African Fish-eagle Palm-nut Vulture Hooded Vulture White-backed Vulture
Rüppell's Griffon-vulture Beaudouin's Snake-eagle Brown Snake-eagle Western Banded
Snake-eagle
Western Marsh-harrier
Pallid Harrier Montagu's Harrier African Harrier-hawk Bateleur Lizard Buzzard
Dark-chanting Goshawk Gabar Goshawk Shikra Grasshopper Buzzard Martial Eagle
Tawny Eagle Wahlberg's Eagle African Hawk-eagle Booted Eagle Long-crested Eagle
Osprey African Hobby Red-necked Falcon Grey Kestrel Common Kestrel
Lanner Falcon Double-spurred Francolin Ahanta Francolin Stone Partridge African Crake
Black Crake Black-crowned Crane African Jacana Black-bellied Bustard Saville's Bustard
Eurasian Oystercatcher Black-winged Stilt Senegal Thick-knee Spotted Thick-knee Greater Painted-snipe
Egyptain Plover Temminck's Courser Collared Practincole Grey Plover Common Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover Kittlitz's Plover White-fronted Plover Spur-winged Lapwing Black-headed Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Eurasian Whimbrel Common Redshank
Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone Common Snipe Sanderling Little Stint Temminck's Stint
Curlew Sandpiper Ruff Pomarine Skua Arctic Skua Kelp Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull Yellow-legged Gull Audouin's Gull Grey-headed Gull Black-headed Gull
Little Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Lesser Crested Tern
Sandwich Tern Common Tern Little Tern Black Tern Chestnut-bellied
Sandgrouse
Four-banded
Sandgrouse
Speckled Pigeon European Turtle-dove Laughing Dove Vinaceous Dove
African Mourning Dove Red-eyed Dove Black-billed Wood-dove Blue-spotted Wood-dove Namaqua Dove
Bruce's Green Pigeon African Green Pigeon Feral Pigeon Senegal Parrot Brown-necked Parrot
Rose-ringed Parakeet Green Turaco Violet Turaco Western Grey
Plantain-eater
Levaillant's Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo Black Coucal Senegal Cuckoo Yellowbill Barn Owl
White-faced Scops-owl African Scop's-owl Verreaux's Eagle-owl Pearl-spotted Owlet Marsh Owl
Long-tailed Nightjar Standard-winged Nightjar African Palm-swift Mottled Spinetail Pallid Swift
Common Swift Little Swift Malachite Kingfisher African Pygmy Kingfisher Grey-headed Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher Blue-breasted Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher
Red-throated Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Little Green Bee-eater Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater Northern Carmine
Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater Abyssinian Roller Rufous-crowned Roller
Blue-bellied Roller Broad-billed Roller Green Wood Hoopoe Black Wood Hoopoe Red-billed Hornbill
African Pied Hornbill African Grey Hornbill Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Vieillot's Barbet
Bearded Barbet Greater Honeyguide Lesser Honeyguide Spotted Honeyguide Fine-spotted Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker Grey Woodpecker Brown-backed Woodpecker Chestnut-backed
Sparrow-lark
Crested Lark
Barn Swallow Red-chested Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow Pied-winged Swallow Red-rumped Swallow
Mosque Swallow Rufous-chested Swallow House Martin Sand Martin Fanti Saw-wing
Yellow-throated Longclaw Plain-backed Pipit Red-throated Pipit White Wagtail Yellow Wagtail
White-breasted
Cuckoo-shrike
Common Bulbul Little Greenbul Yellow-throated Leaflove Snowy-crowned
Robin-chat
White-crowned
Robin-chat
Common Redstart Whinchat Northern Wheatear Northern Anteater Chat
White-fronted Black Chat Rufous Nightingale African Thrush Zitting Cisticola Singing Cisticola
Whistling Cisticola Siffling Cisticola Winding Cisticola Tawny-flanked Prinia Red-winged Warbler
Yellow-breasted Apalis Oriole Warbler (Moho) Grey-backed Camaroptera Sedge Warbler Eurasian Reed-warbler
Olivaceous Warbler Melodious Warbler Blackcap Subalpine Warbler Yellow-bellied Hyliota
Green-backed Eremomela Northern Crombec Willow Warbler Common Chiffchaff Western Bonelli's Warbler
Northern Black Flycatcher Senegal Batis African Blue Flycatcher Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher African Paradise Flycatcher
Yellow Penduline Tit Blackcap Babbler Brown Babbler Mouse-brown Sunbird Western Violet-backed Sunbird
Collared Sunbird Pygmy Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird Variable Sunbird Beautiful Sunbird
Splendid Sunbird Copper Sunbird African White-eye African Golden Oriole Brubru
Northern Puffback Black-crowned Tchagra Yellow-crowned Gonolek Sulphur-breasted
Bush Shrike
Grey-headed Bush Shrike
White-crested
Helmet Shrike
Common Wattle-eye Yellow-billed Shrike Square-tailed Drongo Fork-tailed Drongo
Piapiac Pied Crow Splendid Glossy Starling Purple Glossy Starling Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Glossy Starling Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling Long-tailed Glossy Starling Chestnut-bellied Starling Yellow-billed Oxpecker
House Sparrow Grey-headed Sparrow Sudan Golden Sparrow Bush Petronia White-billed
Buffalo-weaver
Chestnut-crowned
Sparrow-weaver
Speckle-fronted Weaver Little Weaver Vitelline Masked Weaver Heuglin's Masked Weaver
Village Weaver Black-necked Weaver Yellow-backed Weaver Red-billed Quelea Yellow-crowned Bishop
Black-winged Red Bishop Northern Red Bishop Yellow-shouldered Widowbird Pin-tailed Whydah Exclamatory Paradise Whydah
Western Bluebill Red-billed Firefinch Black-faced Firefinch Red-cheeked
Cordon-bleu
Red-winged Pytilia
Orange-cheeked Waxbill Black-rumped Waxbill Lavender Waxbill African Quailfinch African Silverbill
Bronze Mannikin Cut-throat Village Indigobird White-rumped Seedeater Yellow-fronted Canary
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting        

Future tour dates

14–28 November 2008


Additional information on Birdfinders' tour to The Gambia


Northern Carmine Bee-eater

Northern Carmine Bee-eater – one of the many reasons to go up river to Basse


The Gambia tour prices

  • Total price: £1375
  • Air price only : £200
  • Ground price: £1175
  • Single supplement: £125
  • Deposit: £250
  • Manchester flight supplement
    (per person): £29
  • Non-birding package available
    for partners based at coastal hotel: £700
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Price includes return charter flights between London Gatwick or Manchester and Yundum airports, accommodation in twin-bedded rooms, breakfast and evening meals, transport within The Gambia, entrance fees to reserves and services of the guides throughout. Excluded are insurance, lunches, drinks, air-conditioning in hotel room (payable locally) and items of a purely personal nature.


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