Bird Life Africa -Bird Watching Tours The Gambia and Senegal.

16/10/2024

African Wood Owl at Farasutu in the Gambia.

The African wood owl (Strix woodfordii) or Woodford's owl, is a typical owl from the genus Strix in the family Strigidae which is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa.
The typical song, like that of the tawny owl, is a duet between the male and the female. The male makes a series of rapid, clear hoots, and the female answers with higher-pitched, more leisurely hoots.

14/10/2024

Swallow-Tailed Kite at Njafat Island, Nothern Senegal.

Swallow-tailed Kites are large but slender and buoyant raptors. They have long, narrow, pointed wings, slim bodies, and a very long, deeply forked tail. The bill is small and sharply hooked.

These birds are creatures of the air, spending most of their day aloft and rarely flapping their wings. They tend to circle fairly low over trees as they hunt for small animals in the branches. At times they soar very high in the sky, almost at the limits of vision. During migration they may form large flocks.

The bird was first described as the "swallow-tail hawk" and "accipiter cauda furcata" (forked-tail hawk) by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in 1731.

11/10/2024

Allen's Gallinule in Djouji National Park, North East, Senegal.

Allen's gallinule (Porphyrio alleni), formerly known as the lesser gallinule, is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae.
Its breeding habitat is marshes and lakes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Remarkably, this apparently weakly flying bird is not only the only species with a purely sub-Saharan African range to have reached Great Britain, but has done so twice. It has also occurred as a vagrant in several other European countries

Breeding males have a blue frontal shield, which is green in the female. Immature Allen's gallinules are sandy brown with a buff undertail. The downy chicks are black, as with all rails. They nod their heads as they swim.

09/10/2024

Stayed in this uniquely beautiful hotel while we were at St. Louise during one of our bird-watching tours.

09/10/2024

This is Podor, a town in Senegal that we happened to visit sometime in the past. It is the hometown of the famous Senegalese singer, Baba Maal. Podor is a beautiful place, charming and full of history.

04/10/2024

Tiger Heron, along the Delta Soulm River, Toubakuta area, Nothern Senegal.

This large species is found in more open habitats than other Tigrisoma herons, such as river and lake banks. It waits often motionless for suitable prey such as fish, frogs, or crabs to come within reach of its long bill.

This is a solitary breeder, not normally found in heron colonies. The nest is a small flattish stick platform in a tree into which 2–3 green-tinged white eggs are laid.

01/10/2024

The entrance of the Niokoloko-Ba National Park in South East Senegal. The park is the biggest in the country. The pictures were taken during a fun safari there.

30/09/2024

The waterfall in Dendifelow, South East Senegal. The water floor where the water drops from the top of the mountain is quite magnificent.

26/09/2024

Horus Swift in Gamadji Sarah North East, Senegal

The Horus swift is a small bird in the swift family Apodidae found in sub-Saharan Africa. Horus, whose name this bird commemorates, was the ancient Egyptian god of the sun, son of Osiris and Isis.
The bird prefers to breed in colonies of other hole-nesting species like bee-eaters, kingfishers, martins, and starlings and forages widely over adjacent terrain.

25/09/2024

Little Grey Wood Pe**er between Podor and Gamadji Sarah North East Senegal

The bird, also known as the Sahelian woodpe**er, is a bird species in the family Picidae. This species is described as somewhat rare, but it has a very large range and the population appears to be steady. The beak is relatively long and broad. The male has a red hind crown and nape while the female lacks these. Otherwise, the sexes are similar. The bird is also known as a very small wood pe**er.

22/09/2024

Quail Plover in Tippe, North East Senegal

The bird is small and short-tailed. The females are slightly darker than the males while the juveniles are paler. The quail plover is ground-living and belongs to the buttonquail family, Turnicidae.

20/09/2024

Arabian Bustard in Djoudji National Park, North East Senegal.

it's a near-threatened bird, meaning its population is decreasing.
Normally, the males are bigger than the females. It's normally found in dry savannah, grasslands and deserts, usually in pairs or loose groups. The bird is part of the large genus known as Ardeotis.

30/06/2024

Splendid Starling been recorded in Tendaba on the 28 June 2024.
Almost 5 of them feeding on Neem Trees

15/03/2024

In November 2023 the Gambia and Senegal tour.

15/03/2024

Very old Vehicle you can't see it in the Gambia now , but there are lot of them in Senegal.

15/03/2024

15/03/2024

I met this fisherman at Toubakuta in Hotel de Keurr Saloum in Senegal.