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Guinea-Bissau wildlife

366 species in the Guinea-Bissau dex: 110 Common, 129 Uncommon, 110 Rare, 17 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.

#078 🐦 Fiery-necked Nightjar

#082 🐦 Black Coucal

#089 🐦 Scarlet-chested Sunbird

#090 🐦 Kentish Plover

#114 🐦 Short-winged Cisticola

#143 🐦 Temminck's Courser

#168 🐦 Black-rumped waxbill

#221 🐦 Yellow-bellied Hyliota

#233 🐦 Black-bellied Firefinch

#289 🐦 Grey Tit-Flycatcher

#292 🐦 Grey-headed Oliveback

#317 🐦 White-fronted Black Chat

#328 🐦 Common Chiffchaff

#341 🐦 Compact Weaver

#370 🐦 Crimson Seedcracker

#374 🐦 Pied Avocet

#382 🐦 African Broadbill

Rare

110

#004 🦌 Western Red Colobus

#013 🐦 Shining-blue Kingfisher

#015 🐦 Egyptian Goose

#016 🐦 Orange-breasted Waxbill

#020 🐦 Western Violet-backed Sunbird

#022 🐦 Red-throated Pipit

#024 🐦 Tree pipit

#025 🐦 Yellow-breasted Apalis

#028 🐦 Common Swift

#031 🐦 African Hawk-Eagle

#042 🐦 Honeyguide Greenbul

#043 🐦 Black Crowned Crane

#044 🐦 Senegal Batis

#049 🐦 Pale Flycatcher

#051 🐦 Greyish Eagle-owl

#056 🐦 Yellow-billed Oxpecker

#059 🐦 Grasshopper Buzzard

#060 🐦 Red-necked Buzzard

#064 🐦 Dunlin

#067 🐦 Little Stint

#072 🐦 Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike

#077 🐦 Standard-winged Nightjar

#080 🐦 Red-breasted Swallow

#088 🐦 Buff-throated Sunbird

#092 🐦 Black Tern

#093 🐦 Simple Greenbul

#096 🐦 Slender-billed Gull

#109 🐦 Western Banded Snake Eagle

#113 🐦 Montagu's Harrier

#116 🐦 Red-faced Cisticola

#117 🐦 Black-backed Cisticola

#127 🐦 Purple Roller

#128 🐦 White-breasted Cuckooshrike

#138 🐦 Red-tailed Greenbul

#142 🐦 Western Subalpine Warbler

#149 🐦 Cardinal Woodpecker

#151 🐦 Melancholy Woodpecker

#152 🐦 Brown-backed Woodpecker

#176 🐦 Blue-throated Roller

#180 🐦 Red-necked Falcon

#181 🐦 African Hobby

#183 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#184 🐦 Common Kestrel

#185 🐦 European Pied Flycatcher

#187 🐦 Crested lark

#189 🐦 Common snipe

#190 🐦 Common Moorhen

#192 🐦 Rock Pratincole

#194 🐦 Pearl-spotted Owlet

#195 🐦 White-backed Night Heron

#197 🐦 Bush Petronia

#208 🐦 Pygmy Sunbird

#211 🐦 Wahlberg's Eagle

#214 🐦 Pied-winged Swallow

#216 🐦 Barn Swallow

#223 🐦 Western Olivaceous Warbler

#224 🐦 Brown Illadopsis

#228 🐦 Lesser Honeyguide

#234 🐦 African Firefinch

#235 🐦 Bar-breasted Firefinch

#239 🐦 Lesser Blue-eared Starling

#246 🐦 Woodchat Shrike

#251 🐦 Black-tailed Godwit

#252 🐦 Black-bellied Bustard

#253 🐦 Black-and-white Mannikin

#260 🐦 Double-toothed Barbet

#262 🐦 Vieillot's Barbet

#264 🐦 Yellow-throated Longclaw

#266 🐦 Blue-billed Malimbe

#270 🐦 Dark Chanting-goshawk

#275 🐦 Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

#280 🐦 Gabar Goshawk

#284 🐦 White Wagtail

#293 🐦 African Pygmy-goose

#295 🐦 Chestnut-breasted Nigrita

#296 🐦 Brubru

#297 🐦 Eurasian Curlew

#299 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#306 🐦 Black-winged Oriole

#311 🐦 Buff-spotted Woodpecker

#312 🐦 White-shouldered Black Tit

#313 🐦 House sparrow

#319 🐦 Preuss's Swallow

#323 🐦 Greater Flamingo

#325 🐦 Common Redstart

#326 🐦 Capuchin Babbler

#343 🐦 Egyptian Plover

#344 🐦 African Finfoot

#351 🐦 Allen's Gallinule

#358 🐦 Grey-rumped Swallow

#360 🐦 Timneh Parrot

#364 🐦 Four-banded Sandgrouse

#366 🐦 Northern White-faced Owl

#372 🐦 Red-headed Quelea

#375 🐦 Black Scimitarbill

#376 🐦 Sand Martin

#377 🐦 Greater Painted-snipe

#379 🐦 Whinchat

#397 🐦 African Wood Owl

#399 🐦 Eurasian Blackcap

#402 🐦 Green Crombec

#407 🐦 Bateleur

#423 🐦 Marsh Sandpiper

#430 🐦 Tambourine Dove

#432 🐦 Eurasian Hoopoe

#452 🦎 Red-lipped Snake

#454 🦎 Black Mamba

#457 🐸 Marbled Snout-burrower

#461 🦎 Bell’s Hingeback Tortoise

#467 🦎 Black-necked Spitting Cobra

Uncommon

129

#002 🦌 Common Hippopotamus

#003 🦌 Common Chimpanzee

#009 🐦 Sedge Warbler

#010 🐦 Eurasian Reed Warbler

#014 🐦 Fire-crested Alethe

#017 🐦 Black Crake

#019 🐦 Mangrove Sunbird

#023 🐦 Plain-backed Pipit

#029 🐦 Pallid Swift

#034 🐦 Goliath Heron

#036 🐦 Purple Heron

#038 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#045 🐦 Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher

#050 🐦 White-billed Buffalo Weaver

#062 🐦 Piping Hornbill

#063 🐦 Sanderling

#065 🐦 Red Knot

#066 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#074 🐦 Little Green Woodpecker

#075 🐦 Fine-spotted Woodpecker

#076 🐦 Long-tailed Nightjar

#081 🐦 Mosque Swallow

#083 🐦 Black-throated Coucal

#085 🐦 Yellow-casqued hornbill

#087 🐦 Blue malkoha

#095 🐦 Grey-headed Gull

#098 🐦 Diederik Cuckoo

#099 🐦 African Emerald Cuckoo

#101 🐦 African Woolly-necked Stork

#103 🐦 Olive-bellied Sunbird

#105 🐦 Copper Sunbird

#108 🐦 Beaudouin's Snake Eagle

#118 🐦 Zitting Cisticola

#119 🐦 Whistling Cisticola

#120 🐦 Winding Cisticola

#122 🐦 Levaillant's Cuckoo

#123 🐦 Speckled Pigeon

#124 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#131 🐦 Great Blue Turaco

#139 🐦 Yellow-fronted Canary

#140 🐦 African Cuckoo

#141 🐦 Red-chested Cuckoo

#145 🐦 Green-headed Sunbird

#147 🐦 Common house martin

#154 🐦 Sharpe's Drongo

#156 🐦 Black Heron

#157 🐦 Little Egret

#160 🐦 Black-winged Kite

#166 🐦 Lavender waxbill

#167 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#169 🐦 Yellow-crowned Bishop

#171 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#172 🐦 Black-winged Red Bishop

#173 🐦 Yellow-mantled Widowbird

#178 🐦 Grey Kestrel

#179 🐦 Lanner Falcon

#186 🐦 White-browed Forest Flycatcher

#193 🐦 Collared Pratincole

#199 🐦 White-backed Vulture

#201 🐦 Eurasian Oystercatcher

#202 🐦 Striped Kingfisher

#203 🐦 Grey-headed Kingfisher

#205 🐦 Woodland Kingfisher

#206 🐦 African Fish Eagle

#207 🐦 Collared Sunbird

#209 🐦 Red-winged Warbler

#212 🐦 Black-winged Stilt

#213 🐦 Melodious Warbler

#220 🐦 Green Hylia

#222 🐦 Oriole Warbler

#225 🐦 Puvel's Illadopsis

#226 🐦 Greater Honeyguide

#227 🐦 Spotted Honeyguide

#229 🐦 African Pygmy-kingfisher

#238 🐦 Bronze-tailed Starling

#244 🐦 Turati's Boubou

#250 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#256 🐦 Long-crested Eagle

#261 🐦 Bearded Barbet

#265 🐦 Grey-headed Bushshrike

#268 🐦 Giant Kingfisher

#271 🐦 Moustached Grass Warbler

#273 🐦 European Bee-eater

#278 🐦 Little Bee-eater

#285 🐦 Western Yellow Wagtail

#287 🐦 Violet Turaco

#288 🐦 Yellow-billed Stork

#294 🐦 Western Nicator

#300 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#302 🐦 Namaqua Dove

#308 🐦 Black-faced Quail-Finch

#309 🐦 African Scops Owl

#315 🐦 Great White Pelican

#321 🐦 Great Cormorant

#330 🐦 Willow Warbler

#331 🐦 African Spoonbill

#334 🐦 Spur-winged Goose

#346 🐦 Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

#352 🐦 Purple Swamphen

#354 🐦 White-crested Helmetshrike

#361 🐦 Ahanta Francolin

#365 🐦 Stone Partridge

#373 🐦 Red-billed Quelea

#378 🐦 White-spotted Flufftail

#384 🐦 Western Bluebill

#386 🐦 Slender-billed Greenbul

#391 🐦 Common Tern

#392 🐦 Little Tern

#393 🐦 Mourning Collared Dove

#401 🐦 Northern Crombec

#405 🐦 Black-crowned Tchagra

#406 🐦 Mottled Spinetail

#410 🐦 West African Crested Tern

#411 🐦 Lesser Crested Tern

#413 🐦 Swamp Palm Bulbul

#416 🐦 Western Red-billed Hornbill

#420 🐦 Wood Sandpiper

#422 🐦 Green sandpiper

#426 🐦 Blackcap Babbler

#428 🐦 Black-billed Wood Dove

#431 🐦 Barn Owl

#439 🐦 Village Indigobird

#441 🐦 Pin-tailed Whydah

#442 🐦 African Yellow White-eye

#446 🦎 Puff Adder

#449 🦎 Graceful Chameleon

#451 🦎 West African crocodile

#459 🐸 Crowned Bullfrog

#477 🦎 Teita Mabuya

Common

110

#001 🦌 Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat

#011 🐦 Common Sandpiper

#012 🐦 African Jacana

#018 🐦 African Darter

#027 🐦 Little Swift

#032 🐦 Great Egret

#033 🐦 Grey Heron

#035 🐦 Black-Headed Heron

#037 🐦 Squacco Heron

#040 🐦 Yellow-throated Greenbul

#046 🐦 Grey-headed Bristlebill

#048 🐦 Hadada Ibis

#053 🐦 Cattle Egret

#058 🐦 Senegal Thick-knee

#061 🐦 Striated Heron

#071 🐦 Green-backed camaroptera

#084 🐦 Senegal Coucal

#086 🐦 Pied Kingfisher

#091 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#094 🐦 Orange-breasted Bushshrike

#100 🐦 Klaas's Cuckoo

#102 🐦 Violet-backed Starling

#104 🐦 Splendid Sunbird

#106 🐦 Beautiful Sunbird

#107 🐦 Variable Sunbird

#111 🐦 Western Marsh Harrier

#115 🐦 Singing Cisticola

#125 🐦 Abyssinian Roller

#126 🐦 Blue-bellied Roller

#129 🐦 Yellow-billed Shrike

#130 🐦 Pied Crow

#132 🐦 Malachite Kingfisher

#133 🐦 White-crowned Robin-Chat

#134 🐦 Snowy-crowned Robin-chat

#136 🐦 Western Plantain-eater

#144 🐦 Olive Sunbird

#146 🐦 African Palm Swift

#148 🐦 White-faced Whistling-Duck

#150 🐦 African Grey Woodpecker

#153 🐦 Fork-tailed Drongo

#155 🐦 Northern Puffback

#158 🐦 Western reef heron

#159 🐦 Intermediate egret

#165 🐦 Senegal Eremomela

#174 🐦 Little Greenbul

#175 🐦 Broad-billed Roller

#191 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#198 🐦 Palm-nut Vulture

#204 🐦 Blue-breasted Kingfisher

#215 🐦 Red-chested Swallow

#217 🐦 Wire-tailed Swallow

#219 🐦 Caspian Tern

#231 🐦 Lizard Buzzard

#236 🐦 Red-billed Firefinch

#237 🐦 Long-tailed Glossy Starling

#240 🐦 Purple Starling

#241 🐦 Splendid Starling

#242 🐦 Yellow-crowned Gonolek

#254 🐦 Bronze mannikin

#257 🐦 Congo Pied Hornbill

#258 🐦 African Grey Hornbill

#269 🐦 Northern Black Flycatcher

#272 🐦 White-throated Bee-eater

#277 🐦 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

#279 🐦 Long-tailed Cormorant

#282 🐦 Black Kite

#290 🐦 Hooded Vulture

#298 🐦 Whimbrel

#305 🐦 African Golden Oriole

#310 🐦 Osprey

#314 🐦 Northern Grey-headed Sparrow

#316 🐦 Pink-Backed Pelican

#324 🐦 Green Woodhoopoe

#327 🐦 Leaf-love

#333 🐦 Brown-throated Wattle-eye

#337 🐦 Olive-naped Weaver

#338 🐦 Village Weaver

#340 🐦 Black-headed weaver

#342 🐦 Grey Plover

#347 🐦 Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird

#348 🐦 Senegal Parrot

#350 🐦 African Harrier-hawk

#353 🐦 Tawny-flanked Prinia

#357 🐦 Fanti Saw-wing

#359 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet

#362 🐦 Double-spurred Francolin

#367 🐦 Piapiac

#369 🐦 Common Bulbul

#380 🐦 Hamerkop

#385 🐦 Laughing Dove

#394 🐦 Red-eyed Dove

#396 🐦 Vinaceous Dove

#404 🐦 Guinea Turaco

#408 🐦 Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher

#409 🐦 African Paradise Flycatcher

#412 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#414 🐦 Sacred Ibis

#417 🐦 African Green Pigeon

#421 🐦 Common Greenshank

#424 🐦 Common Redshank

#425 🐦 Brown Babbler

#427 🐦 African Thrush

#429 🐦 Blue-spotted Wood Dove

#433 🐦 Red-cheeked Cordonbleu

#435 🐦 African Wattled Lapwing

#436 🐦 Spur-winged Lapwing

#444 🦎 Common Agama

#456 🦎 House Gecko

#476 🦎 Senegal Mabuya

#478 🦎 Nile Monitor

Vagrants

109

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

#007 🐦 Shikra

#008 🐦 Great Reed Warbler

#021 🐦 Little Green Sunbird

#026 🐦 Narina Trogon

#030 🐦 Tawny Eagle

#039 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#041 🐦 African Cuckoo-hawk

#047 🐦 Marsh Tchagra

#052 🐦 Verreaux's Eagle-owl

#054 🐦 Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill

#055 🐦 Bulwer's Petrel

#057 🐦 Spotted Thick-knee

#068 🐦 Ruff

#069 🐦 Cory's Shearwater

#070 🐦 Cape Verde Shearwater

#073 🐦 Purple-throated Cuckooshrike

#079 🐦 Lesser Striped Swallow

#097 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#110 🐦 Brown Snake Eagle

#112 🐦 Pallid Harrier

#121 🐦 Great Spotted Cuckoo

#135 🐦 Common Quail

#137 🐦 Western Bearded Greenbul

#161 🐦 Brown-rumped Bunting

#162 🐦 Cabanis's Bunting

#163 🐦 Gosling's Bunting

#164 🐦 Saddle-billed Stork

#170 🐦 Red-collared Widowbird

#177 🐦 Dybowski's Twinspot

#182 🐦 Lesser Kestrel

#188 🐦 Sun Lark

#196 🐦 Crested Guineafowl

#200 🐦 Rüppell's Vulture

#210 🐦 Ayres's Hawk-eagle

#218 🐦 European Storm-Petrel

#230 🐦 Eurasian Wryneck

#232 🐦 Black-faced Firefinch

#243 🐦 Tropical Boubou

#245 🐦 Great Grey Shrike

#247 🐦 Kelp Gull

#248 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#249 🐦 Marabou Stork

#255 🐦 Magpie Mannikin

#259 🐦 Common Nightingale

#263 🐦 Bat Hawk

#267 🐦 Red-headed Malimbe

#274 🐦 Red-throated Bee-eater

#276 🐦 Northern Carmine Bee-eater

#281 🐦 Lesser Jacana

#283 🐦 African Pied Wagtail

#286 🐦 Spotted Flycatcher

#291 🐦 Denham's Bustard

#301 🐦 Wilson's storm petrel

#303 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#304 🐦 Sooty Tern

#307 🐦 Eurasian Golden Oriole

#318 🐦 European Honey Buzzard

#320 🐦 Red-billed Tropicbird

#322 🐦 Lesser Flamingo

#329 🐦 Iberian Chiffchaff

#332 🐦 Eurasian Spoonbill

#335 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#336 🐦 Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver

#339 🐦 Little Weaver

#345 🐦 Red-rumped Tinkerbird

#349 🐦 Martial Eagle

#355 🐦 Cassin's Honeybird

#356 🐦 Brown-backed Honeybird

#363 🐦 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

#368 🐦 Sooty Shearwater

#371 🐦 Red-winged Pytilia

#381 🐦 Pel's Fishing Owl

#383 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#387 🐦 Crowned Eagle

#388 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#389 🐦 Great Skua

#390 🐦 Roseate Tern

#395 🐦 European Turtle Dove

#398 🐦 Brown Booby

#400 🐦 Garden Warbler

#403 🐦 Little Grebe

#415 🐦 White-crested Tiger Heron

#418 🐦 White-headed Vulture

#419 🐦 Spotted Redshank

#434 🐦 White-crowned Lapwing

#437 🐦 Black-headed Lapwing

#438 🐦 Cameroon Indigobird

#440 🐦 Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

#443 🐸 Spiny Reed Frog

#445 🦎 Mole Viper

#447 🦎 Striped House Snake

#448 🦎 Spotted Night Adder

#453 🦎 Confusing Egg Eater

#455 🦎 Angolan Garter Snake

#458 🐸 Ornate Frog

#460 🐸 Spatz' Reed Frog

#462 🦎 Western hinge-back tortoise

#463 🦎 Latastia ornata

#464 🐸 Savannah Tree Frog

#465 🦎 Spotted Wolf Snake

#466 🦎 Uganda Dwarf Gecko

#468 🦎 Nimba Snake-eyed Skink

#469 🦎 West African Mud Turtle

#470 🦎 Ghana Shovel-snout

#471 🦎 Elegant Sand Racer

#472 🦎 Ball Python

#473 🐸 Hallowell's Toad

#474 🐸 African Common Toad

#475 🦎 Senegambian Wall Gecko

Marine

Seen offshore.

#005 🦌 Atlantic Humpbacked Dolphin

#006 🦌 Bottlenose Dolphin

#450 🦎 Green Turtle