Birds seen in Senegal - West Africa
April 2002
Chuck Otte

In the following list, the numbers at the start indicate month and date that the species was first seen in Senegal.  The common names are derived from "A Field Guide to the Birds of The Gambia and Senegal" by Clive Barlow and Tim Wacher, as well as a list of Senegalese birds courtesy Jerry Blinn and Avi-Sys.  Birds marked with * following their name are the only species that were not life birds at the time of the trip.

4-12 Little Grebe
4-13 Great White Pelican
4-06 Pink-backed Pelican
4-04 Northern Gannet
4-04 Great Cormorant
4-04 Long-tailed Cormorant
4-14 Darter
4-12 Gray Heron
4-13 Great Egret*
4-04 Black Heron
4-12 Little Egret
4-12 Reef Heron
4-03 Cattle Egret*
4-14 Black-crowned Night-Heron*
4-24 Hamerkop
4-14 Yellow-billed Stork
4-14 Sacred Ibis
4-14 African Spoonbill
4-14 White-faced Whistling-Duck
4-14 Egyptian Goose
4-14 Spur-winged Goose
4-14 Comb Duck
4-06 Osprey*
4-24 Black-shouldered Kite
4-03 Black Kite
4-04 African Fish-Eagle
4-24 Palm-nut Vulture
4-03 Hooded Vulture
4-15 White-backed Vulture
4-15 Lappet-faced Vulture
4-18 Black Crake
4-14 Common Moorhen*
4-14 African Jacana
4-15 Eurasian Oystercatcher
4-12 Black-winged Stilt
4-14 Pied Avocet
4-12 Senegal Thick-knee
4-24 Egyptian Plover
4-12 Spur-winged Plover
4-24 Wattled Lapwing
4-21 Black-bellied (Grey) Plover*
4-13 Common Ringed Plover
4-11 Little Ringed Plover
4-14 Kittlitz's Plover
4-25 Black-tailed Godwit
4-11 Whimbrel*
4-14 Spotted Redshank
4-13 Marsh Sandpiper
4-12 Green Sandpiper
4-16 Common Sandpiper
4-11 Ruddy Turnstone*
4-13 Sanderling*
4-12 Little Stint
4-13 Curlew Sandpiper
4-14 Ruff
4-04 Pomarine Jaeger*
4-04 Parasitic Jaeger
4-13 Lesser Black-backed Gull
4-13 Gray-headed Gull
4-13 Black-headed Gull
4-13 Slender-billed Gull
4-13 Gull-billed Tern*
4-04 Caspian Tern*
4-06 Lesser Crested Tern
4-06 Sandwich Tern*
4-13 Royal Tern*
4-04 Common Tern*
4-14 White-winged Tern
4-13 Black Tern*
4-08 Rock Dove*
4-04 Speckled Pigeon
4-24 African Mourning Dove
4-06 Red-eyed Dove
4-25 Vinaceous Dove
4-03 Laughing Dove
4-12 Black-billed Wood-Dove
4-14 Namaqua Dove
4-08 Rose-ringed Parakeet
4-04 Senegal Parrot
4-10 Western Plantain-eater
4-17 Senegal Coucal
4-06 African Palm-Swift
4-17 Little Swift
4-04 Blue-naped Mousebird
4-17 Gray-headed Kingfisher
4-12 Pied Kingfisher
4-14 Little Bee-eater
4-06 Abyssinian Roller
4-15 Eurasian Hoopoe
4-13 Red-billed Hornbill
4-12 African Gray Hornbill
4-20 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
4-27 Bearded Barbet
4-24 Gray Woodpecker
4-14 Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark
4-17 Crested Lark
4-24 Sun Lark
4-24 Bank Swallow (Martin)*
4-14 Red-chested Swallow
4-25 House Martin
4-25 White Wagtail
4-14 Yellow Wagtail
4-03 Common Bulbul
4-18 Tawny-flanked Prinia
4-18 Green-backed (Gray) Camaroptera
4-24 Northern Anteater-Chat
4-21  White-fronted Black-Chat
4-27 Brown Babbler
4-24 White-winged Black-Tit
4-24 Pygmy Sunbird
4-28 Scarlet-chested Sunbird
4-06 Beautiful Sunbird
4-06 Splendid Sunbird
4-04 Variable Sunbird
4-27 Common Gonolek
4-24 Piapiac
4-03 Pied Crow
4-15 Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling
4-28 Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling
4-06 Long-tailed Glossy-Starling
4-24 Chestnut-bellied Starling
4-15 Yellow-billed Oxpecker
4-03 House Sparrow*
4-24 Gray-headed Sparrow
4-12 Sudan Golden-Sparrow
4-20 Little Weaver
4-04 Village Weaver
4-15 Black-headed Weaver
 (Yellow-backed)
4-26 Red-billed Quelea
4-05 Red-billed Firefinch
4-06 Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
4-06 African Silverbill
4-07 Bronze Mannikin
4-05 Village Indigobird

134 SPECIES (115 lifers)
 

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