Thank you to our customers who have kindly shared the birds they saw during their visit with us, in and around the lodge. You can also download this list.
  • Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
  • Abyssinian Roller
  • African Golden Oriole
  • African Grey Hornbill
  • African Grey Woodpecker
  • African Harrier Hawk
  • African Hawk Eagle
  • African Thrush
  • African Jacana
  • Bearded Barbet
  • Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle
  • Beautiful Sunbird
  • Black Kite (Yellow-billed)
  • Black-bellied Bustard
  • Black-billed Wood Dove
  • Black-crowned Crane
  • Black-crowned Tchagra
  • Black-headed Lapwing
  • Black-headed Weaver
  • Black-rumped Waxbill
  • Black-winged Stilt
  • Black Stork
  • Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
  • Bronze-tailed Starling
  • Brown Babbler
  • Brown Snake Eagle
  • Bruce’s Green Pigeon
  • Bush Petronia
  • Caspian Tern
  • Cattle Egret
  • Chestnut-backed Sparrow Lark
  • Chestnut-crowned Sparrow Weaver
  • Common Bulbul
  • Common House Martin
  • Common Kestrel
  • Common Whitethroat
  • Dark Chanting Goshawk
  • Double-spurred Francolin
  • Eurasian Marsh Harrier
  • European Bee-eater
  • Flappet Lark
  • Four-banded Sandgrouse
  • Garden Warbler
  • Grasshopper Buzzard
  • Great Cormorant
  • Great Egret
  • Greater Blue-eared Starling
  • Greater Honeyguide
  • Green Bee-eater
  • Green-backed Camaroptera
  • Grey Heron
  • Greyish Eagle Owl
  • Grey Kestrel
  • Grey-headed Kingfisher
  • Grey Woodpecker
  • Hammerkop
  • Helmeted Gunieafowl
  • Hooded Vulture
  • House Martin
  • House Sparrow
  • Intermediate Egret
  • Laughing Dove
  • Lavender Waxbill
  • Lesser Blue-eared Starling
  • Levaillant’s Cuckoo
  • Little Bee-eater
  • Little Egret
  • Little Green Bee-eater
  • Little Weaver
  • Long-crested Eagle
  • Long-tailed Glossy Starling
  • Melodius Warbler
  • Montagu’s Harrier (including dark morph)
  • Mourning Dove
  • Mottled Spinetail
  • Namaqua Dove
  • Northern Anteater Chat
  • Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
  • Northern Red Bishop
  • Northern Wheatear
  • Palm Swift (African)
  • Piapiac
  • Pied Crow
  • Pied Kingfisher
  • Pin-tailed Whydah
  • Pink-backed Pelican
  • Purple Glossy Starling
  • Pygmy Sunbird
  • Red-billed Firefinch
  • Red-billed Quelea
  • Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
  • Red-chested Swallow
  • Red-eyed Dove
  • Red-necked Buzzard
  • Red-necked Falcon
  • Rose-ringed Parakeet
  • Rufous-chested Swallow
  • Rufous-crowned Roller
  • Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin
  • Sahel Paradise Whydah
  • Savile’s Bustard
  • Scarlet-chested Sunbird
  • Senegal Coucal
  • Senegal Parrot
  • Slender-billed Gull
  • Speckled Pigeon
  • Splendid Sunbird
  • Spur-winged Goose
  • Spur-winged Plover (V spinosus)
  • Squacco Heron
  • Striped Kingfisher
  • Subalpine Warbler
  • Tawny-flanked Prinia
  • Tree Pipit
  • Viellot’s Barbet
  • Village Indigo Bird
  • Vinaceous Dove
  • Vitelline Masked Weaver
  • Wahlberg’s Eagle
  • Wattled Lapwing / Plover
  • Western Grey Plantain Eater
  • Western Olivaceous Warbler
  • Western Plantain-eater
  • Western Red-billed Hornbill
  • Western Reef-Heron
  • White-billed Buffalo Weaver
  • White-rumped Seedeater
  • Willow Warbler
  • Woodchat Shrike
  • Woolly-necked Stork
  • Yellow-billed Kite
  • Yellow-billed Oxpecker
  • Yellow-billed Stork
  • Yellow-crowned Gonolek (common)
  • Yellow Penduline Tit
  • Zitting Cisticola

 

Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve Boat Trip:

  • Black Egret / Heron
  • Blue-breasted Kingfisher
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Common Wattle-eye
  • European Bee-eater
  • Goliath Heron
  • Great Cormorant
  • Grey Heron
  • Osprey
  • Pied Kingfisher
  • Pink-backed Pelican
  • Rose-ringed Parakeet
  • Western Reef Heron
  • Whimbrel
  • Woolly-necked Stork
  • Yellow-billed Kite
  • Mangrove (brown) Sunbird

 

We saw many birds with ease and close range from the bird viewing tower. It was lovely to have an evening drink there and meals whilst watching the birds and enjoying the scenery.

Christine Ford, UK

Photos courtesy of Walshykitty