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Gambia wildlife

433 species in the Gambia dex: 127 Common, 156 Uncommon, 131 Rare, 19 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#017 🦌 Hammer-headed Fruit Bat

#034 🐦 Ovambo Sparrowhawk

#038 🐦 African Reed Warbler

#055 🐦 Tawny Pipit

#101 🐦 Grey-backed Camaroptera

#121 🐦 Little Ringed Plover

#149 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#155 🐦 Dorst's Cisticola

#162 🐦 Jacobin Cuckoo

#175 🐦 Common Quail

#176 🐦 African Crake

#183 🐦 Red-chested Cuckoo

#196 🐦 Square-tailed Drongo

#221 🐦 Yellow-mantled Widowbird

#299 🐦 Yellow-legged Gull

#339 🐦 Grey Tit-Flycatcher

#369 🐦 White-breasted Cormorant

#437 🐦 Garganey

#461 🐦 Mottled Swift

Rare

131

#001 🦌 African Arvicanthis

#002 🦌 Four-toed Hedgehog

#009 🦌 African Straw-colored Fruit Bat

#012 🦌 Ass

#018 🦌 Yellow-winged Bat

#019 🦌 Scrub Hare

#021 🦌 Banded Mongoose

#022 🦌 Southern African Pygmy Mouse

#032 🐦 Shikra

#039 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#047 🐦 Northern Pintail

#048 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#052 🐦 Yellow Penduline Tit

#054 🐦 Western Violet-backed Sunbird

#056 🐦 Plain-backed Pipit

#057 🐦 Tree pipit

#060 🐦 Common Swift

#075 🐦 Black Crowned Crane

#079 🐦 Pale Flycatcher

#085 🐦 Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill

#087 🐦 Spotted Thick-knee

#095 🐦 Dunlin

#096 🐦 Red Knot

#097 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#098 🐦 Little Stint

#103 🐦 Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike

#104 🐦 Golden-tailed Woodpecker

#107 🐦 Standard-winged Nightjar

#110 🐦 Red-breasted Swallow

#112 🐦 Black Coucal

#117 🐦 Blue malkoha

#119 🐦 Kentish Plover

#124 🐦 Whiskered Tern

#125 🐦 White-winged Tern

#126 🐦 Black Tern

#128 🐦 Orange-breasted Bushshrike

#131 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#132 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo

#134 🐦 White stork

#137 🐦 Black Stork

#138 🐦 Violet-backed Starling

#147 🐦 Short-toed Eagle

#151 🐦 Short-winged Cisticola

#153 🐦 Red-faced Cisticola

#158 🐦 Winding Cisticola

#160 🐦 Rufous Cisticola

#161 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#182 🐦 African Cuckoo

#185 🐦 Temminck's Courser

#193 🐦 Brown-backed Woodpecker

#203 🐦 African Blue Flycatcher

#204 🐦 Brown-rumped Bunting

#206 🐦 Gosling's Bunting

#214 🐦 Estrilda coerulescens

#217 🐦 African Silverbill

#229 🐦 African Hobby

#230 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#232 🐦 Common Kestrel

#233 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#247 🐦 Griffon Vulture

#248 🐦 Rüppell's Vulture

#249 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#259 🐦 Booted Eagle

#269 🐦 Green Hylia

#270 🐦 Yellow-bellied Hyliota

#272 🐦 Audouin's Gull

#281 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#283 🐦 Black-faced Firefinch

#285 🐦 Bar-breasted Firefinch

#291 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Starling

#293 🐦 Splendid Starling

#302 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#303 🐦 Black-bellied Bustard

#308 🐦 Savile's Bustard

#309 🐦 Common Nightingale

#313 🐦 Grey-headed Bushshrike

#321 🐦 Northern Carmine Bee-eater

#328 🐦 Yellow-billed Kite

#331 🐦 Northern Gannet

#335 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#340 🐦 Anteater Chat

#343 🐦 African Pygmy-goose

#345 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#347 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#355 🐦 Black-faced Quail-Finch

#358 🐦 Buff-spotted Woodpecker

#359 🐦 White-shouldered Black Tit

#363 🐦 Sudan Golden Sparrow

#366 🐦 White-fronted Black Chat

#371 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#374 🐦 Leaf-love

#375 🐦 Western Bonelli's Warbler

#380 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#387 🐦 Heuglin's Masked Weaver

#391 🐦 Black-necked Weaver

#397 🐦 African Finfoot

#398 🐦 Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

#400 🐦 Cape Parrot

#402 🐦 Martial Eagle

#404 🐦 Allen's Gallinule

#410 🐦 Ahanta Francolin

#412 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

#425 🐦 Pied Avocet

#427 🐦 Bronze-winged Courser

#432 🐦 Knob-billed Duck

#433 🐦 White-spotted Flufftail

#434 🐦 Whinchat

#436 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#442 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#443 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#447 🐦 Adamawa Turtle Dove

#448 🐦 African Collared Dove

#450 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#452 🐦 African Wood Owl

#453 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#454 🐦 Garden Warbler

#455 🐦 Common Whitethroat

#459 🐦 Green Crombec

#470 🐦 Royal Tern

#476 🐦 Lappet-faced Vulture

#479 🐦 White-headed Vulture

#480 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#489 🐦 Common Buttonquail

#492 🐦 Barn Owl

#501 🐦 Sahel paradise whydah

#505 🐸 Amnirana galamensis

#507 🦎 Senegal Chameleon

#512 🦎 Green Mamba

#513 🦎 Black Mamba

#516 🦎 Baobab Gecko

#522 🦎 Olive Whip Snake

Uncommon

156

#003 🦌 Marsh Mongoose

#004 🦌 Grivet

#006 🦌 African Civet

#007 🦌 Northern Giant Pouched Rat

#008 🦌 Spotted Hyena

#016 🦌 Common Hippopotamus

#023 🦌 Common Chimpanzee

#029 🦌 Mauritian Tomb Bat

#031 🦌 Striped Ground Squirrel

#040 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#044 🐦 Cut-throat Finch

#053 🐦 Mangrove Sunbird

#058 🐦 Yellow-breasted Apalis

#062 🐦 Pallid Swift

#063 🐦 Tawny Eagle

#064 🐦 African Hawk-Eagle

#067 🐦 Goliath Heron

#071 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#073 🐦 Yellow-throated Greenbul

#076 🐦 Senegal Batis

#077 🐦 Grey-headed Bristlebill

#078 🐦 Hadada Ibis

#082 🐦 Greyish Eagle-owl

#083 🐦 Verreaux's Eagle-owl

#086 🐦 Yellow-billed Oxpecker

#094 🐦 Sanderling

#099 🐦 Ruff

#105 🐦 Fine-spotted Woodpecker

#106 🐦 Long-tailed Nightjar

#111 🐦 Mosque Swallow

#122 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#130 🐦 Slender-billed Gull

#133 🐦 Klaas's Cuckoo

#136 🐦 African Woolly-necked Stork

#140 🐦 Copper Sunbird

#144 🐦 Beaudouin's Snake Eagle

#145 🐦 Western Banded Snake Eagle

#146 🐦 Brown Snake Eagle

#150 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#152 🐦 Singing Cisticola

#156 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#157 🐦 Whistling Cisticola

#163 🐦 Levaillant's Cuckoo

#168 🐦 Purple Roller

#174 🐦 Snowy-crowned Robin-chat

#180 🐦 White-rumped Seedeater

#184 🐦 Western Subalpine Warbler

#187 🐦 Green-headed Sunbird

#189 🐦 Common house martin

#191 🐦 Cardinal Woodpecker

#197 🐦 Northern Puffback

#202 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#210 🐦 Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark

#215 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#218 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#220 🐦 Black-winged Red Bishop

#224 🐦 Little Greenbul

#227 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#228 🐦 Red-necked Falcon

#235 🐦 Crested lark

#236 🐦 Common snipe

#238 🐦 Common Moorhen

#240 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#241 🐦 Pearl-spotted Owlet

#242 🐦 White-backed Night Heron

#243 🐦 Bush Petronia

#246 🐦 White-backed Vulture

#250 🐦 Striped Kingfisher

#251 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#253 🐦 Woodland Kingfisher

#254 🐦 African Fish Eagle

#255 🐦 Collared Sunbird

#256 🐦 Pygmy Sunbird

#257 🐦 Red-winged Warbler

#260 🐦 Wahlberg's Eagle

#262 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#263 🐦 Pied-winged Swallow

#265 🐦 Barn Swallow

#271 🐦 Oriole Warbler

#274 🐦 Western Olivaceous Warbler

#275 🐦 Greater Honeyguide

#276 🐦 Spotted Honeyguide

#277 🐦 Lesser Honeyguide

#278 🐦 African Pygmy-kingfisher

#288 🐦 Bronze-tailed Starling

#296 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#297 🐦 Kelp Gull

#298 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#300 🐦 Marabou Stork

#301 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#305 🐦 Long-crested Eagle

#311 🐦 Vieillot's Barbet

#315 🐦 Northern Black Flycatcher

#317 🐦 White-throated Bee-eater

#318 🐦 European Bee-eater

#319 🐦 Red-throated Bee-eater

#324 🐦 African Green Bee-eater

#326 🐦 Gabar Goshawk

#332 🐦 White Wagtail

#334 🐦 Swamp Flycatcher

#338 🐦 Yellow-billed Stork

#344 🐦 Brubru

#348 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#351 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#356 🐦 African Scops Owl

#361 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#364 🐦 Great White Pelican

#373 🐦 Common Redstart

#376 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#378 🐦 Willow Warbler

#379 🐦 African Spoonbill

#382 🐦 Spur-winged Goose

#384 🐦 Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver

#389 🐦 Black-headed weaver

#392 🐦 Vitelline Masked Weaver

#395 🐦 Grey Plover

#396 🐦 Egyptian Plover

#405 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#407 🐦 White-crested Helmetshrike

#408 🐦 Fanti Saw-wing

#413 🐦 Four-banded Sandgrouse

#414 🐦 Stone Partridge

#415 🐦 Northern White-faced Owl

#426 🐦 Black Scimitarbill

#428 🐦 Sand Martin

#429 🐦 Greater Painted-snipe

#438 🐦 Western Bluebill

#444 🐦 Common Tern

#445 🐦 Little Tern

#460 🐦 Little Grebe

#462 🐦 Guinea Turaco

#463 🐦 Black-crowned Tchagra

#464 🐦 Mottled Spinetail

#465 🐦 Bateleur

#468 🐦 West African Crested Tern

#469 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#471 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#472 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#477 🐦 African Green Pigeon

#478 🐦 Bruce's Green Pigeon

#483 🐦 Green sandpiper

#484 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#493 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#497 🐦 Black-headed Lapwing

#499 🐦 Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

#500 🐦 Pin-tailed Whydah

#502 🐦 African Yellow White-eye

#504 🦎 Gambia Agama

#506 🦎 Puff Adder

#509 🦎 Nile crocodile

#510 🦎 West African crocodile

#515 🦎 House Gecko

#517 🐸 Crowned Bullfrog

#520 🦎 Painted Dwarf Gecko

#524 🦎 African Rock Python

#527 🦎 Senegal Mabuya

Common

127

#005 🦌 Green Monkey

#010 🦌 Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat

#013 🦌 Patas Monkey

#015 🦌 Gambian Sun Squirrel

#024 🦌 Guinea Baboon

#025 🦌 Common warthog

#026 🦌 Western Red Colobus

#041 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#042 🐦 African Jacana

#046 🐦 Black Crake

#050 🐦 African Darter

#059 🐦 Little Swift

#065 🐦 Great Egret

#066 🐦 Grey Heron

#068 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#069 🐦 Purple Heron

#070 🐦 Squacco Heron

#081 🐦 White-billed Buffalo Weaver

#084 🐦 Cattle Egret

#089 🐦 Senegal Thick-knee

#090 🐦 Grasshopper Buzzard

#093 🐦 Striated Heron

#100 🐦 Green-backed camaroptera

#113 🐦 Senegal Coucal

#116 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#118 🐦 Scarlet-chested Sunbird

#129 🐦 Grey-headed Gull

#139 🐦 Splendid Sunbird

#141 🐦 Beautiful Sunbird

#143 🐦 Variable Sunbird

#148 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#164 🐦 Speckled Pigeon

#165 🐦 Rock Dove

#166 🐦 Abyssinian Roller

#167 🐦 Blue-bellied Roller

#170 🐦 Yellow-billed Shrike

#171 🐦 Pied Crow

#172 🐦 Malachite Kingfisher

#173 🐦 White-crowned Robin-Chat

#177 🐦 Western Plantain-eater

#181 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#188 🐦 African Palm Swift

#190 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#192 🐦 African Grey Woodpecker

#195 🐦 Fork-tailed Drongo

#198 🐦 Black Heron

#199 🐦 Little Egret

#200 🐦 Western reef heron

#201 🐦 Intermediate egret

#209 🐦 Senegal Eremomela

#213 🐦 Lavender waxbill

#216 🐦 Black-rumped waxbill

#219 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#225 🐦 Broad-billed Roller

#226 🐦 Grey Kestrel

#239 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#245 🐦 Palm-nut Vulture

#252 🐦 Blue-breasted Kingfisher

#261 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#264 🐦 Red-chested Swallow

#266 🐦 Wire-tailed Swallow

#268 🐦 Caspian Tern

#282 🐦 Lizard Buzzard

#286 🐦 Red-billed Firefinch

#287 🐦 Long-tailed Glossy Starling

#289 🐦 Greater Blue-eared Starling

#290 🐦 Lesser Blue-eared Starling

#292 🐦 Purple Starling

#294 🐦 Yellow-crowned Gonolek

#304 🐦 Bronze mannikin

#306 🐦 Congo Pied Hornbill

#307 🐦 African Grey Hornbill

#310 🐦 Bearded Barbet

#314 🐦 Giant Kingfisher

#316 🐦 Dark Chanting-goshawk

#320 🐦 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

#322 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#323 🐦 Little Bee-eater

#325 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#329 🐦 Black Kite

#333 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#337 🐦 Violet Turaco

#341 🐦 Hooded Vulture

#346 🐦 Whimbrel

#350 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#353 🐦 African Golden Oriole

#357 🐦 Osprey

#362 🐦 Northern Grey-headed Sparrow

#365 🐦 Pink-Backed Pelican

#368 🐦 Great Cormorant

#372 🐦 Green Woodhoopoe

#381 🐦 Brown-throated Wattle-eye

#385 🐦 Olive-naped Weaver

#386 🐦 Village Weaver

#388 🐦 Little Weaver

#399 🐦 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

#401 🐦 Senegal Parrot

#403 🐦 African Harrier-hawk

#406 🐦 Tawny-flanked Prinia

#409 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#411 🐦 Double-spurred Francolin

#416 🐦 Piapiac

#418 🐦 Common Bulbul

#423 🐦 Red-billed Quelea

#435 🐦 Hamerkop

#439 🐦 Laughing Dove

#446 🐦 Mourning Collared Dove

#449 🐦 Red-eyed Dove

#451 🐦 Vinaceous Dove

#458 🐦 Northern Crombec

#466 🐦 Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher

#467 🐦 African Paradise Flycatcher

#474 🐦 Western Red-billed Hornbill

#481 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#482 🐦 Common Greenshank

#485 🐦 Common Redshank

#486 🐦 Brown Babbler

#487 🐦 Blackcap Babbler

#488 🐦 African Thrush

#490 🐦 Black-billed Wood Dove

#491 🐦 Blue-spotted Wood Dove

#494 🐦 Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

#495 🐦 African Wattled Lapwing

#496 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#498 🐦 Village Indigobird

#503 🦎 Common Agama

#528 🦎 Nile Monitor

Vagrants

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#011 🦌 Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat

#014 🦌 Kellen's Dormouse

#020 🦌 Gambian Mongoose

#027 🦌 Halcyon Horseshoe Bat

#028 🦌 White-bellied House Bat

#033 🐦 Red-thighed Sparrowhawk

#035 🐦 African Goshawk

#036 🐦 Red-chested Goshawk

#037 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#043 🐦 Shining-blue Kingfisher

#045 🐦 Orange-breasted Waxbill

#049 🐦 African Openbill

#051 🐦 Cuckoo Weaver

#061 🐦 White-rumped Swift

#072 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#074 🐦 Common Pochard

#080 🐦 Little rush warbler

#088 🐦 Eurasian stone-curlew

#091 🐦 Red-necked Buzzard

#092 🐦 Common Buzzard

#102 🐦 Olive-green Camaroptera

#108 🐦 Red-rumped Swallow

#109 🐦 West African Swallow

#114 🐦 Black-casqued Hornbill

#115 🐦 Yellow-casqued hornbill

#120 🐦 Caspian Plover

#123 🐦 White-fronted Plover

#127 🐦 Simple Greenbul

#135 🐦 Woolly-necked Stork

#142 🐦 Superb Sunbird

#154 🐦 Black-backed Cisticola

#159 🐦 Croaking Cisticola

#169 🐦 White-breasted Cuckooshrike

#178 🐦 Eastern Plantain-eater

#179 🐦 Red-tailed Greenbul

#186 🐦 Olive Sunbird

#194 🐦 Eastern Grey Woodpecker

#205 🐦 Golden-breasted Bunting

#207 🐦 House Bunting

#208 🐦 Yellow-bellied Eremomela

#211 🐦 Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin

#212 🐦 Common Waxbill

#222 🐦 White-bellied Bustard

#223 🐦 Little Grey Greenbul

#231 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#234 🐦 Eurasian Coot

#237 🐦 Great Snipe

#244 🐦 Yellow-spotted Petronia

#258 🐦 Ayres's Hawk-eagle

#273 🐦 Mediterranean Gull

#279 🐦 Little Bittern

#280 🐦 Dwarf Bittern

#284 🐦 Black-bellied Firefinch

#295 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#312 🐦 Yellow-throated Longclaw

#327 🐦 Lesser Jacana

#330 🐦 Flappet Lark

#336 🐦 Ross's Turaco

#342 🐦 Egyptian Vulture

#352 🐦 Bridled Tern

#354 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#360 🐦 White-winged Black Tit

#367 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#370 🐦 Red Phalarope

#377 🐦 Wood Warbler

#383 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#390 🐦 Vieillot's Black Weaver

#393 🐦 European Golden Plover

#394 🐦 American Golden Plover

#417 🐦 Manx Shearwater

#419 🐦 Crimson Seedcracker

#420 🐦 Green-winged Pytilia

#421 🐦 Red-winged Pytilia

#422 🐦 Red-headed Quelea

#424 🐦 African Rail

#430 🐦 African Skimmer

#431 🐦 African Spotted Creeper

#440 🐦 Speckle-fronted Weaver

#441 🐦 Slender-billed Greenbul

#456 🐦 Lesser Whitethroat

#457 🐦 Orphean Warbler

#473 🐦 Red-billed Hornbill

#475 🐦 Southern Red-billed Hornbill

#511 🦎 Gans’ Egg Eater

#514 🦎 Western Green Mamba

#518 🦎 Western hinge-back tortoise

#521 🦎 African Slender-snouted Crocodile

#523 🦎 Olive Grass Racer

#525 🐸 African Common Toad

#526 🦎 Senegambian Wall Gecko

Marine

Seen offshore.

#030 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#267 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#349 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#508 🦎 Green Turtle

#519 🦎 Olive Ridley