Birds to See in Gambia in October
43 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
43 bird species on our list for Gambia are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Lavender Waxbill, Senegal Thick-knee, Little Weaver and Great White Egret. New this month: Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Bearded Barbet and Ringed Plover and 17 more.
New in October21
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Recorded all year
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
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
(30)Present outside the breeding season
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Squacco Heron
Ardeola ralloidesLC
Regularly Jul–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Jul–May
Bearded Barbet
Pogonornis dubiusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Sep–May
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Oct–May
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Oct–May
European Bee-eater
Merops apiasterLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flavaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Willow Warbler
Phylloscopus trochilusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Bar-tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponicaNT
Regularly Oct–Apr
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Little Tern
Sternula albifronsLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Sedge Warbler
Acrocephalus schoenobaenusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Common Swift
Apus apusLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Hoopoe
Upupa epopsLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Passage migrants
(2)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
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