Common Birds in Guinea-Bissau
Our list for Guinea-Bissau has 29 common birds recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 21 winter visitors, 3 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Guinea-Bissau in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 29, most common first
Yellow WagtailMotacilla flavaWinter visitorCommon15–17 cmRegularly Oct–May
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaWinter visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Oct–May
House MartinDelichon urbicumPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
Spur-winged GoosePlectropterus gambensisPassage migrantCommon75–115 cmRegularly Jun–Dec
Western Marsh-harrierCircus aeruginosusWinter visitorCommon48–56 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
Common Reed-warblerAcrocephalus scirpaceusWinter visitorCommon13–14 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Willow Warbler 11–13 cm
- Common Reed-warbler 13–14 cm
- House Martin 13–15 cm
- Yellow Wagtail 15–17 cm
- Ringed Plover 17–19 cm
- Common Sandpiper 18–20 cm
- Fork-tailed Drongo 23–26 cm
- African Jacana 23–31 cm
- Redshank 27–29 cm
- European Bee-eater 27–29 cm
- Grey Plover 27–30 cm
- Greenshank 30–35 cm
- Rock Dove 29–37 cm
- Little Bittern 33–38 cm
- Barn Owl 33–39 cm
- Gull-billed Tern 33–42 cm
- Sandwich Tern 36–41 cm
- Rose-ringed Parakeet 38–42 cm
- Senegal Thick-knee 38–43 cm
- Whimbrel 40–46 cm
- Squacco Heron 40–49 cm
- Pied Crow 46–52 cm
- Cattle Egret 46–56 cm
- Western Marsh-harrier 48–56 cm
- Osprey 54–58 cm
- Black-crowned Night-heron 58–65 cm
- Great White Egret 80–104 cm
- Grey Heron 90–98 cm
- Spur-winged Goose 75–115 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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