Birds to See in Gambia in September
22 species listed for September · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
22 bird species on our list for Gambia are recorded regularly in September. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Little Weaver, Rock Dove, Rose-ringed Parakeet and Great White Egret. New this month: Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Spur-winged Goose and Redshank and 2 more.
New in September6
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(7)Recorded all year
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
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
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
(11)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
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Jul–May
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Sep–May
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Passage migrants
(1)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