Birds to See in Guinea-Bissau in October
29 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
29 bird species on our list for Guinea-Bissau are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Pied Crow, Cattle Egret, Whimbrel, Common Sandpiper and Great White Egret. New this month: Whimbrel, Greenshank, Redshank and Gull-billed Tern and 13 more.
Residents
(4)Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(21)Present outside the breeding season
Pied Crow
Corvus albusLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Sep–May
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Redshank
Tringa totanusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Barn Owl
Tyto albaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLC
Regularly Oct–May
African Jacana
Actophilornis africanusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Yellow Wagtail
Motacilla flavaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Great Cormorant
Phalacrocorax carboLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Common Reed-warbler
Acrocephalus scirpaceusLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Passage migrants
(3)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