Birds to See in Guinea-Bissau in April
30 species listed for April · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
30 bird species on our list for Guinea-Bissau are recorded regularly in April. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Common Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Cattle Egret and Rose-ringed Parakeet.
New in April
No new arrivals this month.
Residents
(4)Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(20)Present outside the breeding season
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Sep–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Barn Owl
Tyto albaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Curlew Sandpiper
Calidris ferrugineaNT
Regularly Dec–Apr
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Nov–May
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Passage migrants
(6)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Little Tern
Sternula albifronsLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Bar-tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponicaNT
Regularly Nov–Apr
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Haematopus ostralegusNT
Regularly Dec–Apr
Lavender Waxbill
Glaucestrilda coerulescensLC
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