List of Birds of Senegal

Many Sahel specialties and other localized spectacular birds such as Quail Plover, Egyptian Plover, Arabian and Savile’s Bustards, Golden Nightjar, Sudan Golden Sparrow, and Mali Firefinch.

Phenomenal roost of thousands of Lesser Kestrels and Scissor-tailed Kites.

More widespread spectacular birds such as African Pygmy Goose, Greater Flamingo, Black and Goliath Herons, Saddle-billed Stork, African Fish Eagle, African Finfoot, Black Crowned Crane, Red-throated Bee-eater, Blue-bellied Roller, and Yellow-crowned Gonolek.

Djoudj National Park, one of the world’s great wetlands, complete with a huge Great White Pelican colony, viewable by boat.

Abdim’s stork
Abyssinian ground hornbill
Abyssinian roller
African blue-flycatcher
African collared dove
African crake
African cuckoo
African cuckoo hawk
African darter
African emerald cuckoo
African finfoot
African firefinch
African fish-eagle
African golden oriole
African gray hornbill
African gray woodpecker
African green pigeon
African harrier-hawk
African hawk eagle
African jacana
African mourning dove
African openbill
African oystercatcher
African palm-swift
African paradise flycatcher
African pied hornbill
African pied wagtail
African pygmy goose
African pygmy kingfisher
African reed warbler
African scop’s owl
African silver-bill
African skimmer
African spoonbill
African spotted creeper
African stone-chat
African swamphen
African thrush
African wood owl
African yellow white-eye
Ahanta francolin
Allen’s gallinule
Alpine swift
American golden-plover
American wigeon
Aquatic warbler
Arabian bustard
Arctic tern
Audouin’s gull
Baillon’s crake
Baird’s sandpiper
Balearic shearwater
Banded snake-eagle
Band-rumped storm petrel
Bank swallow
Barbary falcon
Bar-breasted firefinch
Barn owl
Barn swallow
Barolo shearwater
Barred warbler
Bar-tailed godwit
Bat hawk
Bateleur
Bearded barbet
Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
Beautiful sunbird
Black coucal
Black crake
Black cuckoo
Black goshawk
Black heron
Black kite
Black noddy
Black redstart
Black scimitar-bill
Black scrub-robin

Black stork
Black tern
Black-and-white mannikin
Black-bellied bustard
Black-bellied firefinch
Black-bellied plover
Black-billed wood-dove
Blackcap babbler
Black-capped rufous warbler
Black-crowned crane
Black-crowned night-heron
Black-crowned sparrow-lark
Black-crowned tchagra
Black-eared wheatear
Black-faced firefinch
Black-faced quail finch
Black-headed gull
Black-headed heron
Black-headed lapwing
Black-headed paradise-flycatcher
Black-headed weaver
Black-legged kittiwake
Black-necked cisticola
Black-necked weaver
Black-rumped buttonquail
Black-rumped waxbill
Black-shouldered nightjar
Black-tailed godwit
Black-throated coucal
Black-winged bishop
Black-winged kite
Black-winged stilt
Blue malkoha
Blue rock thrush
Blue-bellied roller
Blue-breasted kingfisher
Blue-cheeked bee-eater
Blue-headed coucal
Blue-napped mouse bird
Blue-spotted wood-dove
Blue-throat
Blue-throated roller
Blue-winged teal
Bonaparte’s gull
Bonelli’s eagle
Booted eagle
Brambling
Bridled tern
Broad-billed roller
Broad-billed sandpiper
Bronze mannikin
Bronze-tailed glossy starling
Bronze-winged courser
Brown babbler
Brown booby
Brown illadopsis
Brown noddy
Brown snake-eagle
Brown-backed woodpecker
Brown-necked parrot
Brown-necked raven
Brown-rumped bunting
Brown-throated wattle-eye
Brubru
Bruce’s green pigeon
Buff-breasted sandpiper
Buff-spotted woodpecker
Buff-throated sunbird
Bulwer’s petrel
Bush petronia
Cameroon indigobird
Capuchin babbler
Cardinal woodpecker
Caspian gull
Caspian tern
Cassin’s honeyguide
Cattle egret

Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
Chestnut-backed starling
Chestnut-bellied starling
Chestnut-billed sandgrouse
Chestnut-breasted negro-finch
Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
Cinerous vulture
Citrine wagtail
Collared flycatcher
Collared pratincole
Collared sunbird
Common bulbul
Common buzzard
Common chiffchaff
Common crane
Common cuckoo
Common gonolek
Common grasshopper warbler
Common greenshank
Common gull
Common house martin
Common kingfisher
Common linnet
Common nightingale
Common ostrich
Common pochard
Common quail
Common redshank
Common redstart
Common ringed plover
Common rock thrush
Common sandpiper
Common shelduck
Common snipe
Common swift
Common tern
Compact weaver
Copper sunbird
Corn bunting
Cory’s shearwater
Cream-colored courser
Crested lark
Cricket long-tail
Crimson seed-cracker
Croaking cisticola
Crowned eagle
Curlew sandpiper
Cut-throat
Dark-chanting goshawk
Denham’s bustard
Desert cisticola
Desert wheatear
Dideric cuckoo
Double-spurred francolin
Dunlin
Dwarf bittern
Dybowsky’s twinspot
Eastern olivaceous warbler
Eastern olive sunbird
Egyptian goose
Egyptian nightjar
Egyptian plover
Egyptian vulture
Ethiopian swallow
Eurasian blackcap
Eurasian coot
Eurasian curlew
Eurasian eagle-owl
Eurasian griffon
Eurasian hobby
Eurasian hoopoe
Eurasian kestrel
Eurasian marsh-harrier
Eurasian moorhen
Eurasian nightjar
Eurasian oriole
Eurasian oystercatcher

Eurasian reed warbler
Eurasian scop’s owl
Eurasian sparrow hawk
Eurasian spoonbill
Eurasian thick-knee
Eurasian turtle-dove
Eurasian wigeon
Eurasian wryneck
Eurasian-crag martin
European bee-eater
European golden-plover
European honey-buzzard
European pied flycatcher
European roller
European storm petrel
Eye-browed thrush
Familiar chat
Fanti sawwing
Fea’s petrel
Ferruginous pochard
Fiery-necked nightjar
Fine-spotted woodpecker
Flappet lark
Forbe’s plover
Four-banded sandgrouse
Fox kestrel
Franklin’s gull
Freckled nightjar
Fulvous chatterer
Fulvous-whistling duck
Gabar goshawk
Gadwall
Garden warbler
Garganey
Giant kingfisher
Glossy ibis
Glossy-backed drongo
Golden nightjar
Golden-breasted bunting
Golden-tailed woodpecker
Goliath heron
Gosling’s bunting
Grasshopper buzzard
Gray heron
Gray kestrel
Gray wagtail
Gray’s malimbe
Gray-headed bristle-bill
Gray-headed bush-shrike
Gray-headed gull
Gray-headed kingfisher
Gray-headed olive-back
Gray-headed sparrow
Grayish eagle-owl
Gray-rumped swallow
Gray-tit flycatcher
Great bittern
Great cormorant
Great crested grebe
Great egret
Great gray shrike
Great reed warbler
Great shearwater
Great skua
Great snipe
Great spotted cuckoo
Great white pelican
Greater blue-eared glossy starling
Greater flamingo
Greater honeyguide
Greater hoopoe-lark
Greater painted snipe
Greater sand plover
Greater short-toed lark
Greater swamp warbler
Greater whitethroat
Green bee-eater

Green crombec
Green hylia
Green sandpiper
Green wood hoopoe
Green-backed camaroptera
Green-headed sunbird
Green-winged pytilia
Green-winged teal
Grosbeak weaver
Guinea turaco
Gull-billed tern
Hadada ibis
Hairy-breasted barbet
Hamerkop
Harlequin quail
Helmeted guineafowl
Hen harrier
Heuglin’s masked weaver
Hooded vulture
Horus swift
House bunting
House sparrow
Hunter’s sunbird
Icterine warbler
Intermediate egret
Isabelline shrike
Isabelline wheatear
Jack snipe
Johanna’s sunbird
Kelp gull
Kentish plover
Kitilitz’s plover
Klaas’s cuckoo
Knob-billed duck
Korodofan lark
Lanner falcon
Lappet-faced vulture
Laughing dove
Laughing gull
Lavender waxbill
Leach’s storm petrel
Leaf-love
Least honeyguide
Lesser black-backed gull
Lesser blue-eared glossy starling
Lesser crested-tern
Lesser flamingo
Lesser honeyguide
Lesser kestrel
Lesser moorhen
Lesser striped swallow
Lesser whitethroat
Levaillant’s cuckoo
Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
Little bee-eater
Little bittern
Little crake
Little egret
Little gray woodpecker
Little grebe
Little green woodpecker
Little greenbul
Little gull
Little ringed plover
Little stint
Little swift
Little tern
Little weaver
Lizard buzzard
Long-billed pipit
Long-crested eagle
Long-legged buzzard
Long-tailed cormorant
Long-tailed glossy-starling
Long-tailed jaeger
Long-tailed nightjar
Madeira petrel

Magnificent frigatebird
Magpie mannikin
Malachite kingfisher
Mali firefinch
Mallard
Manx shearwater
Marabou stork
Marbled teal
Marsh owl
Marsh sandpiper
Martial eagle
Meadow pipit
Mediterranean gull
Melodious warbler
Merlin
Mocking cliff-chat
Montagu’s harrier
Mosque swallow
Mottled spinetail
Mottled swift
Mountain wagtail
Mouse-brown sunbird
Moustached grass warbler
Namaqua dove
Neumann’s starling
Northern anteater-chat
Northern black-flycatcher
Northern carmine bee-eater
Northern crombec
Northern gannet
Northern lapwing
Northern paradise-whydah
Northern pintail
Northern puffback
Northern shoveler
Northern wheatear
Northern white-faced owl
Olive-bellied sunbird
Olive-green camaroptera
Orange bishop
Orange weaver
Orange-cheeked waxbill
Oriole warbler
Ortolan bunting
Osprey
Ovambo sparrow hawk
Pacific golden-plover
Pale flycatcher
Pale-bellied firefinch
Pale-winged indigobird
Pallid harrier
Pallid swift
Palm-nut vulture
Parasitic jaeger
Pearl-spotted owlet
Pel’s fishing owl
Pennant-winged nightjar
Peregrine falcon
Pharaoh eagle-owl
Piapiac
Pied avocet
Pied crow
Pied cuckoo
Pied kingfisher
Pied-winged swallow
Pink-backed pelican
Pin-tailed whydah
Piping hornbill
Plain martin
Plain nightjar
Plain swift
Plain-backed pipit
Pomarine jaeger
Purple glossy-starling
Purple heron
Puvel’s illadopsis
Pygmy sunbird

Quail finch
Quail finch indigobird
Quail plover
Red knot
Red phalarope
Red-billed firefinch
Red-billed quelea
Red-billed tropicbird
Red-breasted flycatcher
Red-cheeked cordonbleu
Red-chested cuckoo
Red-chested goshawk
Red-chested swallow
Red-collared widowbird
Red-eyed dove
Red-eyed puffback
Red-faced cisticola
Red-footed falcon
Red-headed quelea
Red-headed weaver
Red-necked buzzard
Red-necked falcon
Red-necked nightjar
Red-necked phalarope
Red-pate cisticola
Red-rumped swallow
Red-rumped tinker-bird
Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike
Red-tailed greenbul
Red-thighed sparrow hawk
Red-throated bee-eater
Red-throated pipit
Red-winged prinia
Red-winged pytilia
Ring-billed gull
River prinia
Rock martin
Rock pigeon
Roseate tern
Rose-ringed parakeet
Royal tern
Ruddy turnstone
Ruff
Rufous cisticola
Rufous-chested swallow
Rufous-crowned roller
Rufous-rumped lark
Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
Rufous-winged illadopsis
Ruppell’s griffon
Sabine’s gull
Sacred ibis
Saddle-billed stork
Sanderling
Sandwich tern
Sardinian warbler
Savi’s warbler
Savile’s bustard
Scarlet-chested sunbird
Scissor-tailed kite
Scopoli’s shearwater
Secretary bird
Sedge warbler
Senegal batis
Senegal coucal
Senegal eremomela
Senegal lapwing
Senegal parrot
Senegal thick-knee
Sennar penduline tit

Shikra
Shinning blue-kingfisher
Short-eared owl
Short-toed snake-eagle
Siffling cisticola
Simple greenbul
Singing bush lark
Singing cisticola
Slender-billed greenbul
Slender-billed gull
Slender-billed weaver
Small buttonquail
Snowy-crowned robin-chat
Song thrush
Sooty chat
Sooty shearwater
Sooty tern
Speckled pigeon
Speckle-fronted weaver
Spectacled warbler
Splendid glossy-starling
Splendid sunbird
Spotted crake
Spotted flycatcher
Spotted honeyguide
Spotted redshank
Spotted thick-knee
Spur-winged goose
Spur-winged lapwing
Squacco heron
Standard-winged nightjar
Stone partridge
Striated heron
Striped kingfisher
Sub-alpine warbler
Sudan golden-sparrow
Sulphur-breasted bush shrike
Sun lark
Swallow-tailed bee-eater
Swamp flycatcher
Swamp greenbul
Tambourine dove
Tawny eagle
Tawny pipit
Tawny-flanked prinia
Temmnick’s courser
Temmnick’s stint
Terek sandpiper
Thick-billed lark
Tree pipit
Tropical boubou
Tufted duck
Turali’s boubou
Ussher’s flycatcher
Variable sunbird
Verreaux’s eagle owl
Vieillot’s barbet
Village indigobird
Village weaver
Vineceous dove
Violet turaco
Vitelline masked-weaver
Wahlberg’s eagle
Waldrapp
Water thick-knee
Wattled lapwing
Western blue-bill
Western bonelli’s warbler
Western nicator
Western olivaceous warbler

Western olive sunbird
Western orphean warbler
Western plantain-eater
Western red-billed hornbill
Western reef heron
Western square-tailed drongo
Western violet-backed sunbird
Western yellow wagtail
Whimbrel
Whinchat
Whiskered tern
Whistling cisticola
White helmet-shrike
White stork
White wagtail
White-backed duck
White-backed night-heron
White-backed vulture
White-bellied bustard
White-billed buffalo-weaver
White-breasted cuckoo-shrike
White-browed forest-flycatcher
White-crested bittern
White-crowned robin-chat
White-faced storm petrel
White-faced whistling duck
White-fronted black-chat
White-fronted plover
White-headed lapwing
White-headed vulture
White-headed woodhoopoe
White-rumped seed-eater
White-rumped swift
White-shouldered black-tit
White-spotted flufftail
White-tailed alethe
White-tailed wheatear
White-throated bee-eater
White-throated francolin
White-throated greenbul
White-winged tern
Willow warbler
Wilson’s storm petrel
Winding cisticola
Wire-tailed swallow
Wood sandpiper
Wood warbler
Woodchat shrike
Woodland kingfisher
Woolly-necked stork
Yellow penduline tit
Yellow-bearded greenbul
Yellow-bellied eremomela
Yellow-billed hyliota
Yellow-billed ox-pecker
Yellow-billed shrike
Yellow-billed stork
Yellow-casqued hornbill
Yellow-crowned bishop
Yellow-fronted canary
Yellow-fronted tinker-bird
Yellow-rumped tinker-bird
Yellow-shouldered widowbird
Yellow-spotted petronia
Yellow-throated greenbul
Yellow-throated longclaw
Yellow-throated tinker-bird
Yellow-whiskered greenbul
Zebra waxbill
Zitting cisticola

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