Gambia 2007 4th to 18th Dec, staying at the Senegambia hotel.
This was a two week holiday with my wife. I had booked a guide for 5 days over the internet. The rest of the holiday would be spent relaxing and birding in the hotel grounds, apart from one day, we booked the Roots trip which we both enjoyed very much. This was my second visit to the Gambia, last year I went with a tour company. Although we had a big list over seven days, I enjoyed this holiday even more. I had time to digest what I had seen, and spend more time on photograghy. Our guide Ebrima Barry was exellent with bird calls, and was very enthusiastic himself, he also had lots of patience while I took photograghs. My wife found him very kind and considerate. I cannot recommend Ebrima Barry highly enough.
Contact Ebrima on.
Mobile (00220) 9887487.
Email barrysbirding@yahoo.com
List over 5 days with Ebrima Barry.
KOTU CREEK.
long tailed cormorant
Squacco heron
Little egret
Great white egret
Western reef egret
Sacrid ibis
Hooded vulture
Black shouldered kite
Black kite
Shrikra
Lizard buzzard
Senegal thick-knee
Spur-winged plover
Ringed plover
Whimbrel
Common greenshank
Common sandpiper
Senegal coucal
White-faced scops owl
Pearl spotted owlet
Blue breasted kingfisher
Western grey plantain eater
Yellow fronted tinkerbird
Melodius warbler
Village weaver
KOTU Sewage Works
Little grebe
Hamerkop
African darter
Black egret
Grey heron
White-faced whistling duck
African jacana
White-winged black tern
Little swift
Palm swift
Malachite kingfisher
KOTU GOLF COURSE
African golden oriole
Splended sunbird
Beautiful sunbird
Red-billed firefinch
Bronze mannikin
Variable sunbird
Broad-billed roller
KAMALO CORNER
Peregrine falcon
Lanner falcon
grey kestrel
Wattle plover
Grey plover
Bar-tailed godwit
Common redshank
Curlew sandpiper
Eurasion oystercatcher
Grey-headed gull
Slender-billed gull
Lesser-black back gull
Blue-cheeked bee eater
Zitting cisticola
Orange-cheeked waxbill
ABUKO RICE fIELD
Purple heron
Striated heron
African harrier hawk
Palm nut vulture
Painted snipe
Eurasion marsh harrier
ABUKO NATURE RESERVE.
White-backed night heron
Black-headed heron
Black crake
Giant kingfisher
Violet turaco
Green turaco
African-pied hornbill
Fanti-saw wing
Little-green bull
Snowy-crowned robin-chat
African thrush
Common wattle eye
African Paradise flycatcher
Black-necked weaver
Vitelline masked weaver
Lavender waxbill
Western Bluebill
LAMIN LODGE.
Abysinian Roller
Subalpine warbler
Double- Spurred francolin
Namaqua Dove
Eurasion Hoopoe
Green wood Hoopoe
Blue-bellied Roller
Rufous-crowned Roller
Fork-tailed Drongo
Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher
Northern-black Flycatcher
Grey-headed bush Shrike
Black-crowned night Heron
PIRANG SHRIMP FARM
Quail Finch
Red-chested Swallow
African-green Pigeon
Piapiac
Wolly-necked Stork
Wire-tailed Swallow
Pink-backed Pelican
Black-winged Stilt
FARABA BANTA Bush Track.
Greys-Eagle Owl
Barn Owl
Tawny Eagle
Wahlberg's Eagle
Brown-Snake Eagle
Dark-chanting Goshawk
Common Kestrel
Stripe Kingfisher
African-grey Hornbill
Wood-chat Shrike
Yellow-fronted Canary
Northern-Red Bishop
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
BURUFUT WOODS
Yellow-billed Coucal
Martial Eagle
Short-Toed Eagle
Klaas's Cuckoo
Long tailed Nightjar
Black-wood Hoopoe
Mottle Spinetail
Vieillots Barbet
Brown-backed Woodpecker
Greater Honeyguide
Yellow White eye
Nothern Crombec
Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Grey Woodpecker
Bearded Barbet
Senegal Parrot
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Red-eyed Dove
Vinaceouse Dove
Black-billed wood Dove
Laughing Dove
TANJI
Lesser-crested Tern
Royal Tern
Caspain Tern
Ruddy Turnstone
Osprey
White-fronted Plover
Eurasion Curlew
Yellow Legged Gull
Kelp Gull
White Wagtail
Sanderling
Sandwich Tern.
BIJILO FOREST
White-throated Bee Eater
Oriole Warbler
Swallow-tailed Bee Eater
Black-cap Babbler
Blue-spotted wood Dove
Lesser-blue eared gloosy Starling
Pied Crow
YUNDUKI WOODS
Levailants Cuckoo
Diederik Cuckoo
Northern Wheatear
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Black-headed Plover
Black-rumped Waxbill
Bob & Lynn Brown.
Rufous-crowned Roller
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Bearded Barbet
Pearl-spotted owlet
Thats an impressive list Bob and some very nice photos.