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Bird Observations

			Date Range: Jan-Dec, 1900-2024

Western Area (Freetown)

Updated ~26 hr(s) ago.

351 species (+24 other taxa)	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Spur-winged Goose
Garganey
Double-spurred Spurfowl
Little Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Bronze-naped Pigeon
Red-eyed Dove
Vinaceous Dove
Streptopelia sp.
Laughing Dove
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
Tambourine Dove
Blue-headed Wood-Dove
African Green-Pigeon
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Great Blue Turaco
Guinea Turaco
Yellow-billed Turaco
Western Plantain-eater
Senegal Coucal
Black Coucal
Blue Malkoha
Levaillant's Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Plain Nightjar
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Long-tailed Nightjar
nightjar sp.
Sabine's Spinetail
Mottled Swift
Common Swift
Common/Pallid Swift
Little Swift
White-rumped Swift
African Palm Swift
swift sp.
White-spotted Flufftail
Red-chested Flufftail
African Swamphen
Black Crake
African Finfoot
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Senegal Thick-knee
Black-winged Stilt
Black-bellied Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Wattled Lapwing
White-fronted Plover
Kentish Plover
African Jacana
Whimbrel
Bar-tailed Godwit
Common Snipe
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Redshank
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Common Greenshank
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Little Stint
peep sp.
Gray-hooded Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
Black Tern
White-winged Tern
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Common Tern
Roseate Tern
Sandwich Tern
Lesser Crested Tern
West African Crested Tern
tern sp.
Cory's Shearwater
Abdim's Stork
African Woolly-necked Stork
African Darter
Long-tailed Cormorant
cormorant sp.
Pink-backed Pelican
Hamerkop
Black Heron
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Little Egret
Western Reef-Heron
White-backed Night Heron
Striated Heron
Squacco Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
white egret sp.
Hadada Ibis
Osprey
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Black-winged Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
European Honey-buzzard
African Cuckoo-Hawk
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Brown Snake-Eagle
Banded Snake-Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
Cassin's Hawk-Eagle
Lizard Buzzard
African Goshawk
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Shikra
Red-thighed Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Accipiter sp.
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Red-necked Buzzard
hawk sp.
Barn Owl
Northern White-faced Owl
Grayish Eagle-Owl
Fraser's Eagle-Owl
African Wood-Owl
Narina Trogon
Eurasian Hoopoe
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Black Scimitarbill
West African Pied Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
Western Long-tailed Hornbill
Yellow-casqued Hornbill
Brown-cheeked Hornbill
Piping Hornbill
Shining-blue Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
Gray-headed Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Little Bee-eater
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
bee-eater sp.
Abyssinian Roller
Blue-bellied Roller
Broad-billed Roller
Naked-faced Barbet
Speckled Tinkerbird
Red-rumped Tinkerbird
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
tinkerbird sp.
Vieillot's Barbet
Double-toothed Barbet
Willcocks's Honeyguide
Spotted Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
Fire-bellied Woodpecker
Melancholy Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
African Gray Woodpecker
Brown-eared Woodpecker
Buff-spotted Woodpecker
Green-backed Woodpecker
Fine-spotted Woodpecker
woodpecker sp.
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Eurasian Kestrel
Gray Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
falcon sp.
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Red-headed Lovebird
Timneh Parrot
Senegal Parrot
Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
Eurasian Golden Oriole
African Golden Oriole
Western Black-headed Oriole
Black-winged Oriole
old world oriole sp.
Brown-throated Wattle-eye
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
West African Wattle-eye
Red-billed Helmetshrike
African Shrike-flycatcher
Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher
Northern Puffback
Sabine's Puffback
Marsh Tchagra
Black-crowned Tchagra
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Turati's Boubou
Yellow-crowned Gonolek
Lowland Sooty Boubou
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Many-colored Bushshrike
Fiery-breasted Bushshrike
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Gray-headed Bushshrike
Shining Drongo
Fork-tailed Drongo
Velvet-mantled Drongo
Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher
Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher
African Paradise-Flycatcher
Northern Fiscal
Piapiac
Pied Crow
White-necked Rockfowl
African Blue Flycatcher
Western Nicator
Green Crombec
Lemon-bellied Crombec
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Northern Crombec
Moustached Grass-Warbler
Kemp's Longbill
Gray Longbill
Senegal Eremomela
Green-backed Camaroptera
Olive-green Camaroptera
Sharpe's Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Oriole Warbler
Red-faced Cisticola
Singing Cisticola
Whistling Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Siffling Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Black-backed Cisticola
cisticola sp.
Melodious Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Great Reed Warbler
Square-tailed Sawwing
Fanti Sawwing
Pied-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Red-chested Swallow
White-throated Blue Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Western House-Martin
Red-rumped Swallow
Lesser Striped Swallow
Rufous-chested Swallow
Preuss's Swallow
swallow sp.
Slender-billed Greenbul
Golden Greenbul
Red-tailed Bristlebill
Green-tailed Bristlebill
Gray-headed Bristlebill
Yellow-throated Greenbul
Swamp Greenbul
Simple Greenbul
Honeyguide Greenbul
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Western Bearded-Greenbul
Red-tailed Greenbul
Little Greenbul
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
Plain Greenbul
Gray Greenbul
Ansorge's Greenbul
Icterine Greenbul
Leaf-love
greenbul sp.
Common Bulbul
Wood Warbler
Willow Warbler
Green Hylia
Chestnut-capped Flycatcher
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Eurasian Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Sylvia/Curruca sp.
Northern Yellow White-eye
Brown Illadopsis
Rufous-winged Illadopsis
Capuchin Babbler
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Violet-backed Starling
Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush
White-tailed Ant-Thrush
African Thrush
Cassin's Flycatcher
Ussher's Flycatcher
Pale Flycatcher
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
White-browed Forest-Flycatcher
African Forest-Flycatcher
Gray Tit-Flycatcher
Northern Black-Flycatcher
White-tailed Alethe
Forest Scrub-Robin
Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
White-crowned Robin-Chat
Brown-chested Alethe
Orange-breasted Forest Robin
Lowland Akalat
Whinchat
Northern Wheatear
Fraser's Sunbird
Mouse-brown Sunbird
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Western Violet-backed Sunbird
Little Green Sunbird
Green Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Pygmy Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Olive-bellied Sunbird
Splendid Sunbird
Johanna's Sunbird
Superb Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Copper Sunbird
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
sunbird sp.
Blue-billed Malimbe
Crested Malimbe
Red-headed Malimbe
Olive-naped Weaver
Olive-naped/Black-necked Weaver
Orange Weaver
Heuglin's Masked-Weaver
Chestnut-and-black Weaver
Village Weaver
Maxwell's Black Weaver
Preuss's Weaver
Compact Weaver
Red-headed Quelea
Northern Red Bishop
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Black-winged Bishop
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Yellow-mantled Widowbird
Euplectes sp.
Bronze Mannikin
Magpie Mannikin
Black-and-white Mannikin
African Silverbill
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
Gray-headed Nigrita
Orange-cheeked Waxbill
Western Bluebill
Crimson Seedcracker
Dybowski's Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
African Firefinch
Pin-tailed Whydah
Togo Paradise-Whydah
Village Indigobird
Cameroon Indigobird
Vidua sp.
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
Western Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
Long-billed Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Tree Pipit
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Yellow-fronted Canary
passerine sp.

KEY:| = insufficient data | = rare to widespread

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