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Birds of The Gambia

Thank you to our customers who have kindly shared the birds they saw during their visit with us, in and around the lodge. 

Birds Commonly
spotted at Morgan Kunda Lodge

Abyssinian Roller
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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

abyssiinnian ground hornbill
Beautiful Sunbird

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

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