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Senegal Bird List March 2024 2024-03-21 - 7:00 p.m. My birding trip list from Senegal, March 2024. New lifers are in Bold. I think I counted 135, whew, that's a lot, so it's subject to recount later. You can find a more complete diary/trip report here. White-faced Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck Knob-billed Duck Spur-winged Goose African Pygmy-Goose Garganey Northern Shoveler Helmeted Guineafowl Stone Partridge Double-spurred Spurfowl Greater Flamingo Lesser Flamingo Rock Pigeon Speckled Pigeon European Turtle-Dove Adamawa Turtle-Dove African Collared-Dove Mourning Collared-Dove Red-eyed Dove Vinaceous Dove Laughing Dove Black-billed Wood-Dove Blue-spotted Wood-Dove, BVD Namaqua Dove Bruce's Green-Pigeon Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Four-banded Sandgrouse Savile's Bustard Guinea Turaco Violet Turaco Western Plantain-eater Senegal Coucal Long-tailed Nightjar Mottled Spinetail Little Swift African Palm Swift Eurasian Moorhen Allen's Gallinule African Swamphen Black Crake African Finfoot Black Crowned-Crane Spotted Thick-knee Senegal Thick-knee Egyptian Plover Black-winged Stilt Eurasian Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover Common Ringed Plover Spur-winged Lapwing Black-headed Lapwing White-crowned Lapwing Wattled Lapwing Kittlitz's Plover Kentish Plover Greater Painted-Snipe African Jacana Whimbrel Eurasian Curlew Bar-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Godwit Common Sandpiper Green Sandpiper Marsh Sandpiper Common Redshank Spotted Redshank Common Greenshank Ruddy Turnstone Ruff Curlew Sandpiper Dunlin Little Stint Quail-plover Bronze-winged Courser Cream-colored Courser Temminck's Courser Collared Pratincole Parasitic Jaeger Slender-billed Gull Black-headed Gull Gray-hooded Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Little Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Common Tern Sandwich Tern West African Crested Tern European Storm-Petrel Black Stork African Woolly-necked Stork Yellow-billed Stork African Darter Long-tailed Cormorant Great Cormorant Great White Pelican Pink-backed Pelican Hamerkop White-crested Tiger-Heron Little Bittern Black-crowned Night Heron Black Heron Little Egret Western Reef-Heron White-backed Night Heron Striated Heron Squacco Heron Western Cattle Egret Great Egret Yellow-billed Egret Gray Heron Purple Heron Black-headed Heron Goliath Heron Glossy Ibis African Sacred Ibis Hadada Ibis Eurasian Spoonbill African Spoonbill Osprey Black-winged Kite Scissor-tailed Kite African Harrier-Hawk Palm-nut Vulture Lappet-faced Vulture Hooded Vulture White-backed Vulture Rüppell's Griffon Eurasian Griffon Bateleur Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle Banded Snake-Eagle Wahlberg's Eagle African Hawk-Eagle Lizard Buzzard Dark Chanting-Goshawk Gabar Goshawk Grasshopper Buzzard Western Marsh Harrier Montagu's Harrier Shikra Black Kite Yellow-billed Kite African Fish-Eagle Red-necked Buzzard African Scops-Owl Grayish Eagle-Owl Verreaux's Eagle-Owl (Milky Eagle-Owl) Pel's Fishing-Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet Narina Trogon Eurasian Hoopoe Green Woodhoopoe Black Scimitarbill Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill African Gray Hornbill Western Red-billed Hornbill Malachite Kingfisher Blue-breasted Kingfisher Striped Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher Red-throated Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Swallow-tailed Bee-eater White-throated Bee-eater African Green Bee-eater Blue-cheeked Bee-eater European Bee-eater Northern Carmine Bee-eater Abyssinian Roller Rufous-crowned Roller Blue-bellied Roller Broad-billed Roller Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Vieillot's Barbet Bearded Barbet Lesser Honeyguide Greater Honeyguide Cardinal Woodpecker African Gray Woodpecker Fine-spotted Woodpecker Lesser Kestrel Eurasian Kestrel Fox Kestrel Gray Kestrel Red-necked Falcon Lanner Falcon Rose-ringed Parakeet Senegal Parrot Red-shouldered Cuckoo-shrike African Golden Oriole Brown-throated Wattle-eye Senegal Batis White Helmetshrike Northern Puffback Black-crowned Tchagra Yellow-crowned Gonolek Fork-tailed Drongo African Paradise-Flycatcher Great Gray Shrike Yellow-billed Shrike Woodchat Shrike Piapiac Pied Crow African Blue Flycatcher Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark Singing Bushlark Sun Lark Crested Lark Northern Crombec Yellow-bellied Eremomela Senegal Eremomela Green-backed Camaroptera (a gray-backed subspecies) Yellow-breasted Apalis,BVD Tawny-flanked Prinia River Prinia Winding Cisticola Zitting Cisticola Desert Cisticola Western Olivaceous Warbler Melodious Warbler Sedge Warbler Common Reed Warbler Greater Swamp Warbler Fanti Sawwing Bank Swallow Rock Martin Barn Swallow Red-chested Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow Western House-Martin Red-rumped Swallow Mosque Swallow Common Bulbul Western Bonelli's Warbler Willow Warbler Iberian Chiffchaff -- I guess that's why you have a guide from Spain, I would've not got this on my own Western Subalpine Warbler Greater Whitethroat Northern Yellow White-eye Brown Babbler Blackcap Babbler Yellow-billed Oxpecker Violet-backed Starling Neumann's Starling Long-tailed Glossy Starling Chestnut-bellied Starling Lesser Blue-eared Starling Greater Blue-eared Starling Purple Starling African Thrush Swamp Flycatcher Northern Black-Flycatcher Black Scrub-Robin Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin White-crowned Robin-Chat European Pied Flycatcher Common Redstart African Stonechat Northern Anteater-Chat Northern Wheatear Familiar Chat Mouse-brown Sunbird Pygmy Sunbird Green-headed Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird Beautiful Sunbird Variable Sunbird White-billed Buffalo-Weaver Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Little Weaver Olive-naped Weaver Vitelline Masked-Weaver Village Weaver Black-headed Weaver Red-billed Quelea Northern Red Bishop Yellow-crowned Bishop Bronze Mannikin African Silverbill Lavender Waxbill Orange-cheeked Waxbill Black-rumped Waxbill Quailfinch Cut-throat Zebra Waxbill Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Green-winged Pytilia Red-billed Firefinch Mali Firefinch Village Indigobird House Sparrow Northern Gray-headed Sparrow Sudan Golden Sparrow Sahel Bush Sparrow Western Yellow Wagtail African Pied Wagtail White Wagtail White-rumped Seedeater Yellow-fronted Canary Gosling's Bunting A probably incomplete mammal list Green Monkey Patas Monkey Guinea Baboon Western (?) Red Colobus Monkey, the rarest but we saw it well at Wassadou, the others were common, widespread, & easy to see Banded Mongoose- Dindefelo Red-flanked Duiker-- Wassadou Waterbuck--Niokola Koba African Golden Wolf-- the coolest, since we saw it in the golden tones of later afternoon near the road with an older young one, who eventually crossed right in front of us (Djoudj area) Common Warthogs-- plenty of them with their families around Djoudj Hippos, a family group keeping together in the water at Wassadou Atlantic Humpback Dolphin-- an endangered and unexpected sighting at the Saloum Delta Agami-style lizards were abundant, and a crocodile usually referred to as Nile Crocodile was also easy to see, although I think DNA may have proved the West African version of this crocodile is a different species, West African Crocodile. Either way, it's a crocodile, don't step on its toes. There was also a long skinny snake that scooted off before anyone got an ID. Best reptile for my money was the monitor. We saw several individuals of various sizes well, and the large ones really hold their looks, not always the case with big reptiles. I believe these were called as West African Nile monitor, and there was some discussion of an introduced population in Florida. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2024 by Elaine Radford