Birds to See in Gambia in May
26 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
26 bird species on our list for Gambia are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Rock Dove, Little Weaver, Lavender Waxbill and Cattle Egret. New this month: Little Grebe.
New in May1
Leaving after last month19
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Fork-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus adsimilisLC
Recorded all year
Lanner Falcon
Falco biarmicusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(15)Present outside the breeding season
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Jul–May
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Bearded Barbet
Pogonornis dubiusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Sep–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Jul–May
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Oct–May
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Oct–May
Little Grebe
Tachybaptus ruficollisLC
Regularly Nov–May
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