Farakunku Birds

Last updated April 2012. List compiled as from November 2009

Our guest season is from November to end May.

These are birds identified by our bird watcher guests all seen in the grounds or within walking distance…this takes in a flooded quarry, local savannah and woods plus the local beach and shoreline, which can be enjoyed as part of a 2 hour self guided walk.

(Loosely listed in order of Barlow/Wacher reference book ‘Birds of the Gambia and Senegal’)

Column One	Column Two
Little Grebe	Wood Sandpiper
Great White Pelican	Eurasian Oyster catcher
Pink –Backed Pelican	Pied Avocet
Hamerkop	Black-winged Stilt
Great Cormorant
Long tailed Cormorant	Ruddy Turnstone
African Darter	Greater Painted Snipe
Cattle Egret	Sanderling
Western Reef Heron
Little Egret	Slender billed Gull
Black Egret
Squacco Heron	Grey headed gull
Striated Heron	Black headed Gull
Great White Egret	Kelp Gull
Black-headed Heron	Lesser Black backed Gull
Purple Heron
Grey Heron	Lesser Crested Tern
African Pygmy Goose	Gull billed Tern
White-faced Whistling duck
Osprey	Common Tern
Palm Nut Vulture
African Harrier Hawk	Royal Tern
Pied Crow	Sandwich Tern
Hooded Vulture	Caspian Tern
Lappet-faced Vulture
Wahlberg’s Eagle	Arctic Skua
Black Kite	Laughing Dove
Short toed Eagle
Brown Snake Eagle
Black-shouldered Kite	Namaqua dove
Long-crested Eagle	Black billed Wood Dove
Dark Chanting Goshawk	Blue-Spotted Wood Dove
Gabar Goshawk	Speckled Pigeon
Shikra	African Green Pigeon
Lizard Buzzard	Red eyed Dove
Peregrine Falcon
Lanner Falcon	African Mourning Dove
African Hobby	Vinaceous Dove
Grey Kestrel	Piapiac
Common Kestrel	Great Spotted Cuckoo
Double Spurred Francolin	Levaillant’s Cuckoo
Stone Partridge	Senegal Coucal
Four banded Sandgrouse	Diederic Cuckoo
Black Crake
Purple Swamphen
African Jacana	Barn Owl
Senegal Thickknee	White-faced Scops Owl
Black Headed Plover	Pearl Spotted Owlet
Oyster catcher	Standard Winged Nightjar
Ringed Plover
Grey Plover	Long-tailed Nightjar
Whimbrel	Pallid Swift
Spur-winged Plover	African Palm Swift
Wattled Plover	Little Swift
Ringed Plover
Eurasion Curlew
Common Greenshank	Mottled Spinetail
Bar tailed Godwit
Black tailed Godwit
Common Sandpiper	Black Wood Hoopoe
Green Sandpiper	Green Wood Hoopoe
Wood Sandpiper

Column Three	Column Four
	Singing Cisticola
	Whistling Cisticola

Giant Kingfisher	Red-winged Warbler
Blue Breasted Kingfisher	Tawny flanked Prinia
Pied Kingfisher	Green backed Eremomela
Woodland Kingfisher	Northern Crombec
Malachite Kingfisher	Grey backed Camaroptera
Strped Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher	Yellow WhiteEye
Broad-billed Roller	Northern Black Flycatcher
Blue-bellied Roller	Senegal Battis
Rufous-crowned Roller	Variable Sunbird
Abyssinian Roller	Scarlet Chested Sunbird
Black Wood Hoopoe/Scimitar Bill	Beautiful Sunbird
	Western Violet backed Sunbird
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater	Splendid Sunbird
Little Bee-eater	Black-crowned Tchagra
	BruBru
White-throated Bee-eater	Northern Puffback
Rose-ringed Parakeet	Yellow crowned Gonolek
Senegal Parrot	Yellow-billed Shrike
Violet Touraco	Helmet Shrike
Western Grey Plantain Eater	Woodchat Shrike
Bearded Barbet	Greater blue eared Glossy Starling
Yellow fronted Tinkerbird	Lesser Blue eared Glossy Starling
Vieillots Barbet	Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling


Red-billed Hornbill	Purple Glossy Starling
African Grey Hornbill	Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Grey Woodpecker	Yellow billed Ox pecker
Brown backed Woodpecker
Fine spotted Woodpecker	Yellow fronted Canary
Eurasian Wryneck
Greater Honeyguide	Grey headed Sparrow
Lesser Honeyguide	White billed Buffalo Weaver
Crested Lark	Chestnut-crowned Sparrow Weaver
House Martin	Black winged Red Bishop
Sand Martin	Northern Red Bishop
Red-chested Swallow	Vitelline Masked Weaver
Pied-Winged Swallow	Village Weaver
African Golden Oriole	Lavender Waxbill
Fork-tailed Drongo	Orange checked Waxbill
Square-tailed Drongo	Red cheeked Cordon Bleu
Yellow Wagtail	Red-billed Firefinch
Common Bulbul	Bronze Mannikin
Yellow-throated Leaflove	Magpie Mannikin
Oriole Warbler	Cut throat Finch
Blackcap Babbler	Pin Tailed Whydah
Brown Babbler	Village Indigobird
Common Nightingale
White-crowned Robin Chat
African Thrush
Whinchat
Northern Wheatear
Olivaceous Warbler
Chiff-Chaff
Melodious Warbler
White Throat
Sub alpine Warbler
Willow warbler

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