Birds to See in Guinea-Bissau in May
20 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
20 bird species on our list for Guinea-Bissau are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Fork-tailed Drongo, Cattle Egret, Great White Egret and Senegal Thick-knee. New this month: Yellow Wagtail, House Sparrow and Bearded Barbet.
Residents
(4)Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(13)Present outside the breeding season
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Sep–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Barn Owl
Tyto albaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flavaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Nov–May
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