Bird photography from Gambia I

Original photographs taken in Gambia of a range of bird species.

Nikon D70 with Zeiss spotting scope. Manual focus, taken on land and from a canoe and a boat. All natural photographs, no baiting or manipulation in these images.

Bird species list from Gambia

• Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
• Abyssinian Roller
• African Darter
• African Fish Eagle
• African Harrier Hawk
• African Jacana
• African Mourning Dove
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Hornbill
• African Spoonbill
• African Thrush
• Allen’s Gallinule
• Bearded Barbet
• Beautiful Sunbird
• Black Crake
• Black Egret
• Black Kite
• Black Tern
• Black-billed Dove
• Black-capped Babbler
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-headed Heron
• Black-headed Plover
• Black-necked Weaver
• Black-rumped Waxbill
• Black-winged Stilt
• Blue-bellied Roller
• Blue-breasted Kingfisher
• Blue-crowned Bee-eater
• Blue-spotted Wood Dove
• Broad-billed Roller
• Bronze-tailed Glossy-starling
• Bronze-winged Manikin
• Brown Babbler
• Brown Snake Eagle
• Bruce’s Green Pigeon
• Buffalo Weaver
• Cardinal Woodpecker
• Caspian Tern
• Cattle Egret
• Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver
• Collared Pratincole
• Common Bulbul
• Common Greenshank
• Common House Martin
• Common Redshank
• Common Redstart
• Common Sandpiper
• Common Wattle-eye
• Cordon-bleu
• Cut-throat Finch
• Dark Chanting Goshawk
• Dark Swallow
• Double-spurred Francolin
• Fine-spotted Woodpecker
• Fork-tailed Drongo
• Four-banded Sandgrouse
• Gabar Goshawk
• Giant Kingfisher
• Goliath Heron
• Grasshopper Buzzard
• Great Cormorant
• Great White Egret
• Great White Pelican
• Greater Blue-eared Glossy-starling
• Green Turaco
• Green Wood Hoopoe
• Green-backed Eremomela
• Grey Heron
• Grey Hornbill
• Grey Kestrel
• Grey Plover
• Grey Woodpecker
• Grey-backed Camaroptera
• Grey-headed Bristlebill
• Grey-headed Bushshrike
• Grey-headed Sparrow
• Gull-billed Tern
• Hadaba Ibis
• Hammerkop
• Hooded Vulture
• Intermediate Egret
• Knob-billed Duck
• Lanner Falcon
• Laughing Dove
• Lavender Waxbill
• Little Green Bee-eater
• Little Swift
• Little Tern
• Little Weaver
• Lizard Buzzard
• Long-crested Eagle
• Long-tailed Cormorant
• Long-tailed Glossy-starling
• Malachite Kingfisher
• Marabu Stork
• Marsh Harrier
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Mottled Spine-tailed Swift
• Mouse-brown Sunbird
• Namaqua Dove
• Northern Anteater Chat
• Northern Black Flycatcher
• Northern Crombec
• Northern Red Bishop
• Olivaceous Warbler
• Oriole Warbler
• Osprey
• Palmnut Vulture
• Pearl-spotted Owlet
• Piapiac
• Pied Crow
• Pied Kingfisher
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Plaintain-eater
• Purple Heron
• Purple Pigeon
• Purple Swamphen
• Pygmy Kingfisher
• Pygmy Sunbird
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Red-billed Hornbill
• Red-chested Swallow
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-necked Falcon
• Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
• Red-throated Bee-eater
• Reed Warbler
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Royal Tern
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Rufous-crowned Roller
• Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
• Sacred Ibis
• Sand Martin
• Sandwich Tern
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Senegal Coucal
• Senegal Parrot
• Senegal Thicknee
• Shikra
• Short-toed Snake Eagle
• Snowy-crowned Robin Chat
• Speckled Pigeon
• Spur-winged Goose
• Spur-winged Plover
• Squacco Heron
• Stone Partridge
• Striated Heron
• Tawny-flanked Prinea
• Turtle Dove
• Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
• Village Indigobird
• Village Weaver
• Vinaceous Dove
• Violet Turaco
• Walburg’s Eagle
• Wattled Plover
• Western Banded Snake Eagle
• Western Bluebill
• Western Reef Heron
• Whimbrel
• White Wagtail
• White-backed Night Heron
• White-backed Vulture
• White-crowned Robin-chat
• White-faced Whistling Duck
• White-throated Bee-eater
• White-winged Black Tern
• Willow Warbler
• Wire-tailed Swallow
• Wood Sandpiper
• Woolly-necked Stork
• Yellow Wagtail
• Yellow White-eye
• Yellow-backed Weaver
• Yellow-billed Oxpecker
• Yellow-billed Shrike
• Yellow-billed Stork
• Yellow-crowned Gonolek
• Yellow-fronted Canary
• Yellow-throated Leaflove