Bird Sightings Table

Bird Sightings Table

Please note that the site given at the top of this chart is the main site visited that day.  Where a cell has two entries (eg.   1+1) this means that two single birds were seen at different sites.

		Hotel	Casino Cycle Track, Kuto Creek	Abuko Reserve	Bush Track, Pirang, Mandiba Ba	Bijelo Forest Nightjars	Tanji Reserve, Casino Cycle Track	Abuko Reserve	Hotel
No	Species	17th Jan	18th Jan	19th Jan	20th Jan	21st Jan	22nd Jan	23rd Jan	24th Jan
1	Little Grebe		6
2	Long-tailed Cormorant					1
3	African Darter					1		c6
4	Pink-backed Pelican				c20
5	Black-crowned Night Heron			c20				c6
6	Squacco Heron		2		1			2+	1
7	Cattle Egret	Y	Y		Y		Y	Y	Y
8	Green-backed Heron			1				1
9	Black Egret		2				6	1
10	Great White Egret		1	1
11	Little Egret			1	1
12	Western Reef Heron		2		1		1+1
13	Intermediate Heron		2+1	2+	1+1			Y
14	Grey Heron		1+1		1	1	2	1
15	Black-headed Heron			40+	1		1	c4
16	Hamerkop			6	1		1	2
17	Sacred Ibis						3
18	Hadada Ibis				2
19	African Spoonbill								1-2
20	White-faced Whistling Duck		c60
21	Black-shouldered Kite			2	1		1
22	Black Kite	3+	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
23	African Fish Eagle					1
24	Palm Nut Vulture			2+	1		1	1
25	Hooded Vulture	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
26	White-backed Vulture				1
27	Beaudouin's Short-toed Eagle				1
28	Brown Snake Eagle				3
29	African Harrier Hawk		1	2	1	2	1
30	Marsh harrier				3+2			1
31	Montagu's Harrier						1
32	Dark Chanting Goshawk				2+2
33	Western Little Sparrowhawk			1
34	Shikra				1+1		1+1	2	1
35	Grasshopper Buzzard			1	1+3
36	Lizard Buzzard				1	1	1	2
37	Wahlberg's Eagle				1
38	Tawny Eagle							1
39	Booted Eagle			1
40	Long-crested Eagle				1			1
41	Osprey		1		1+1	1	c10
42	Grey Kestrel		1	2	1+1			1
43	Red-necked Falcon		2	1
44	Lanner Falcon	1					1
45	Double-spurred Francolin		1	1		1+3	1	2+
46	Stone Partridge							3
47	Black Crake							3
48	African Jacana		1	Y			c20	2
49	Greater Painted Snipe						1
50	Oystercatcher						1
51	Black-winged Stilt		Y		1
52	Senegal Thick-knee		c6				1+4
53	Little Ringed Plover		4		1
54	Ringed Plover				2		c6
55	Grey Plover		2				1
56	Wattled Plover			11	c6		1	Y
57	Spur-winged Plover		10	12+	c6		Y	Y	1
58	Black-tailed Godwit		c30				6	1
59	Bar-tailed Godwit						c10
60	Whimbrel		c6	1	1	1	1+2+1
61	Common Redshank		1				1
62	Common Greenshank		6		1	1	1
63	Green Sandpiper		1				1	1
64	Wood Sandpiper		c12	Y	1
65	Common Sandpiper		c20	1+2	1	1	Y	1
66	Turnstone		1				3
67	Sanderling						2
68	Little Stint				2
69	Curlew Sandpiper		2
70	Ruff				1
71	Arctic Skua		1
72	Audoin's Gull						1
73	Lesser Black-backed Gull		Y				Y
74	Kelp Gull						4+
75	Black-headed Gull						1
76	Grey-headed Gull	Y	Y	Y		c6	Y
77	Slender-billed Gull		30			3	c6
78	Gull-billed Tern		2
79	Caspian Tern		3			3	c20
80	Royal Tern		4				3
81	Lesser Crested Tern						6
82	Sandwich Tern						c10
83	Little Tern		1
84	Speckled Pigeon	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
85	Vinaceous Dove	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
86	Laughing Dove	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
87	African Mourning Dove	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
88	Red-eyed Dove	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
89	Black-billed Wood Dove				c10	2	1	1
90	Blue-spotted Wood Dove			c6		2		2	2
91	Naquama Dove				4
92	African Green Pigeon				2
93	Senegal Parrot		c10		2	2
94	Ring-necked Parakeet		c6		Y	2		2	2
95	Violet Turaco				1		1	2
96	Western Grey Plantain Eater		c6	2	Y		c6	2
97	Senegal Coucal	1	c10	Y	Y	2	Y	1	1
98	Pearl-spotted Owlet				1		2 Heard
99	Long-tailed Nightjar					2
100	Standard-winged Nightjar					1
101	Mottled Spinetail			1
102	Palm Swift	2		c10	c50	Y	3	Y	Y
103	Little Swift				2
104	Pygmy Kingfisher			1
105	Blue-breasted Kingfisher		1
106	Striped Kingfisher				1
107	Giant Kingfisher			2				2
108	Pied Kingfisher		4+?	2	1		3	1
109	Little Bee-eater		c20	c6		c10	c10	6	1
110	Swallow-tailed Bee-eater					c6	1	1
111	Red-throated Bee-eater			1
112	Blue-cheeked Bee-eater		3	Y	c15	Y heard		3-4
113	Abyssian Roller		1		1+1		1
114	Rufus-crowned Roller			1	Y
115	Blue-bellied Roller		1		1+1			1
116	Broad-billed Roller		2		1		1
117	Green Wood Hoopoe		c10	c6			3
118	Red-billed Hornbill	Y	Y	c10	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
119	Pied Hornbill			2
120	Grey Hornbill		3		1	2	c12	2
121	Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird								1
122	Bearded Barbet				2		2
123	Fine-spotted Woodpecker		1		1
124	Buff-spotted Woodpecker			2
125	Grey Woodpecker			2	1	1+1	2	1
126	Crested Lark				c6		2
127	Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark				2
128	Mosque Swallow				3	1			2
129	Wire-tailed Swallow		15		Y
130	Red-chested Swallow		20		Y	1	1	1
131	Yellow Wagtail		1				c6
132	White Wagtail						2
133	Plain-backed Pipit				2
134	Red-shouldered Cuckoo-Shrike			2-3
135	Little Greenbul							2
136	Common Bulbul	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
137	African Thrush	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	Y
138	Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat			2		4		3
139	White-crowned Robin-Chat		3		1		1		3
140	Redstart						1
141	Olivaceous Warbler				2		1		1
142	Green-backed Eremomela				1				1
143	Northern Crombec						1		1
144	Willow Warbler		1				1+1
145	Blackcap				1
146	Common Whitethroat			1		1	1
147	Subalpine Warbler						1
148	Zitting Cisticola				1		1
149	Tawny-flanked Prinia		2	c6		c6	1
150	Yellow-breasted Apalis			1				1
151	Grey-backed Camaroptera					c6		c12	1
152	Oriole Warbler					1
153	Northern Black Flycatcher				1	2			1
154	Brown-throated Wattle-eye			2				2
155	Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher			2				2
156	Brown babbler	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
157	Blackcap babbler	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y		3
158	Green-headed Sunbird					3	1
159	Scarlet-chested Sunbird			1	c10
160	Variable Sunbird						lots		1
161	Splendid Sunbird				2		1		2
162	Beautiful Sunbird	1	4		2+3	2	lots	2	2+
163	African Golden Oriole				2
164	Woodchat Shrike				1+2			2	1
165	Yellow-billed Shrike	Y	Y	4+5	Y			3+1	6+
166	Brubru				1
167	Northern Puffback							1
168	Yellow-crowned Gonolek		3+2			2	1	Y	Y
169	White-crested Helmetshrike			20+
170	Fork-tailed Drongo		2	1			2	1
171	Piapiac	1	20	1+20	Y		Y		Y
172	Pied Crow	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
173	Purple Glossy Starling			2	3-4	3	15
174	Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling						1
175	Lesser Blue-eared Glossy Starling				1		1
176	Long-tailed Glossy Starling		12	c10	1		6+6	3	2
177	Yellow-billed Oxpecker				4+6		1
178	House Sparrow								2
179	Grey-headed Sparrow		2	c6	2	c4	2	2+	2
180	Bush Petronia					2
181	White-billed Buffalo Weaver			c6
182	Little Weaver						1
183	Black-necked Weaver			c20		3		2
184	Village Weaver	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
185	Heuglin's Masked Weaver					1
186	Northern Red Bishop				c50
187	Western Bluebill			1				2
188	Bar-breasted Firefinch			Y
189	Red-billed Firefinch		1	Y	1	Y	c6	Y	Y
190	Lavender Waxbill	Y		2	2		3	2	Y
191	Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu	Y		1	1	Y	c6	Y	Y
192	Silverbill							c20
193	Bronze Mannikin		Y	Y		Y	c10	Y	Y
194	Village Indigobird							c6
195	Yellow-fronted Canary				c4
196	Cisticola Sp.			c6