Photos

The Gambia is an absolute paradise for photographers. The sun always shines (in the dry season at least), and the birds allow for such close approach.

Bearded Barbet
African Paradise Flycatcher

Brown-backed Woodpecker
Red-throated Bee-eaters

Woodchat Shrike

African Green Pigeon
African Pygmy Kingfisher

Black-headed Lapwing
Spotted Redshank

Splendid Starling
African Jacana

Long-tailed Nightjar
Black Herons and Pink-backed Pelicans

Ruppell's Griffon Vulture
African Fish Eagle
Spotted Honeyguide

Spur-winged Lapwing

Greater Painted-Snipe

Little Bee-eater
Western Plantain-eater

African Wood Owl
African Hawk Eagle

Brown-headed Parrot

Grasshopper Buzzard
Temminck's Coursers

Yellow Wagtail

Squacco Heron
Vieillot's Barbet

Striped Kingfisher

Greyish Eagle-Owl
Cardinal Woodpecker

Brown Snake-Eagle

Greyish Eagle-Owl

Pearl-spotted Owlet and Grey Woodpecker
Bearded Barbet

Black-winged Stilt

Brown-throated (Common) Wattle-eye

Red-billed Quelea
Speckle-fronted Weaver

Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike

Western Bluebill

Black Crowned Crane
Fine-spotted Woodpecker

Greater Honeyguide

Klaas's Cuckoo
African Finfoot

Blue-bellied Roller

Grey-headed Kingfisher

Savile's Bustard

Yellow-throated Greenbul (Loveleaf)
Green Woodhoopoe

Northern Ant-eater Chat

Shikra

Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
White-bellied Bustard
Blackcap Babblers

Yellow White-eye

Western Reef-Egret

Splendid Sunbird

Red-bellied Paradise-Flycatcher

Orange-cheeked Waxbill

Grey-headed Sparrow

Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver

Black Kite
African Golden Oriole

Brown Babbler

Black Crowned Crane
Lavender Waxbill

Palmnut Vulture

Common Redstart

Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

White-faced Whistling-Duck

Greater Blue-eared Starling
Yellow-fronted Canary

Senegal Thick-knee

Slender-billed Gull

Tawny-flanked Prinia

Lizard Buzzard

Green Woodhoopoe

Northern Carmine Bee-eater

Black-headed Heron
Blackcap Babbler

Brown-rumped Bunting

Yellow-crowned Gonolek

Little Weaver

Plain-backed Pipit

White-crowned Robin Chat

Caspian Terns, Royal Terns, Sandwich Terns and Grey-hooded Gulls

Yellow-billed Shrike

Northern Wheatear

African Spoonbill

Western Red-billed Hornbill

Orange-necked Falcon

Grey Kestrel

Collared Pratincole

Black-rumped Waxbill
Bateleur

Cut-throat Finch

Lesser Honeyguide

Pied Kingfisher

Tawny Eagle and Hooded Vulture

Wood Sandpiper

Blue-spotted Wood-Dove

Common Bulbul and Village Weavers

Hamerkop

Yellow-billed Oxpecker

African Mourning Dove
Tree Pipit
Marsh Sandpiper
Quailfinch

Banded Snake-Eagle
Black Heron
White-fronted Plover

Subalpine Warbler
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
Splendid Starling

Yellow Penduline Tit
Purple Glossy Starling

Giant Kingfisher
Long-tailed Glossy-Staling
Glossy-backed (Fork-tailed) Drongo
African Thrush

Broad-billed Roller

Marsh Harrier

Sacred Ibis

White-rumped Seedeater
Blackcap

Green-backed Camaroptera

Namaqua Dove

Senegal Batis

White Stork and Wahlberg's Eagle
Black-winged Bishop

Grey Plover and Spur-winged Lapwing

Red-eyed Dove

Senegal Coucal
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

Lesser Blue-eared Starling

Ruff, Wattled Lapwing and Spur-winged Lapwing

White-fronted Black Chat
Sahel Paradise Whydah