Birds to See in Guinea-Bissau in December
46 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
46 bird species on our list for Guinea-Bissau are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Cattle Egret, Common Sandpiper, Whimbrel and Great White Egret. New this month: Rock Dove, Yellow Wagtail, Spur-winged Goose and Green Sandpiper and 9 more.
New in December13
Leaving after last month7
Residents
(4)Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(27)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
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flavaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Nov–May
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Western Marsh-harrier
Circus aeruginosusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Willow Warbler
Phylloscopus trochilusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Barn Owl
Tyto albaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Curlew Sandpiper
Calidris ferrugineaNT
Regularly Dec–Apr
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Pied Wagtail
Motacilla albaLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Passage migrants
(15)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Purple Heron
Ardea purpureaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Pallid Swift
Apus pallidusLC
Regularly Jun–Jan
Sedge Warbler
Acrocephalus schoenobaenusLC
Regularly Dec–Mar
Bar-tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponicaNT
Regularly Nov–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinagoLC
Regularly Dec–Feb
Spur-winged Goose
Plectropterus gambensisLC
Regularly Jun–Dec
Lanner Falcon
Falco biarmicusLC
Regularly Dec–Jun
Whinchat
Saxicola rubetraLC
Regularly Dec–Mar
Blackcap
Sylvia atricapillaLC
Regularly Dec
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Haematopus ostralegusNT
Regularly Dec–Apr
Black-tailed Godwit
Limosa limosaNT
Regularly Dec
Curlew
Numenius arquataNT
Regularly Dec
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseusLC
Regularly Nov–Jan
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