Birds to See in Gambia in August
18 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
18 bird species on our list for Gambia are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Little Weaver, Rock Dove, Lavender Waxbill and Rose-ringed Parakeet. New this month: Gull-billed Tern.
New in August1
Leaving after last month1
Residents
(7)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(8)Present outside the breeding season
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Jul–May
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Bearded Barbet
Pogonornis dubiusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made