eBird Field Checklist
Senegal
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602 species (+139 other taxa) - Year-round, All years
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Waterfowl
White-faced Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Knob-billed Duck
Egyptian Goose
Common Shelduck
Spur-winged Goose
Muscovy Duck
African Pygmy-Goose
Garganey
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
dabbling duck sp.
Marbled Duck
Common Pochard
Ferruginous Duck
Tufted Duck
duck sp.
waterfowl sp.
Grouse, Quail, and Allies
Helmeted Guineafowl
Stone Partridge
White-throated Francolin
Common Quail
Ahanta Spurfowl
Double-spurred Spurfowl
francolin/spurfowl sp.
Flamingos
Greater Flamingo
Lesser Flamingo
flamingo sp.
Grebes
Little Grebe
Eared Grebe
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon
Speckled Pigeon
European Turtle-Dove
Adamawa Turtle-Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
African Collared-Dove
Mourning Collared-Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Vinaceous Dove
Streptopelia sp.
Laughing Dove
Black-billed Wood-Dove
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
Turtur sp.
Namaqua Dove
Bruce's Green-Pigeon
African Green-Pigeon
green-pigeon sp.
Sandgrouse
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
Four-banded Sandgrouse
sandgrouse sp.
Bustards
Arabian Bustard
Denham's Bustard
White-bellied Bustard
Savile's Bustard
Black-bellied Bustard
bustard sp.
Turacos
Guinea Turaco
Violet Turaco
Western Plantain-eater
turaco sp.
Cuckoos
Black-throated Coucal
Senegal Coucal
Black Coucal
Blue Malkoha
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Levaillant's Cuckoo
Pied Cuckoo
Dideric Cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
African Emerald Cuckoo
Chrysococcyx sp.
Red-chested Cuckoo
African Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
African/Common Cuckoo
Cuculus sp.
Nightjars
Standard-winged Nightjar
Red-necked Nightjar
Eurasian Nightjar
Red-necked/Eurasian Nightjar
Egyptian Nightjar
Golden Nightjar
Fiery-necked Nightjar
Plain Nightjar
Freckled Nightjar
Long-tailed Nightjar
Caprimulgus sp.
nightjar sp.
Swifts
Mottled Spinetail
Alpine Swift
Mottled Swift
Common Swift
Pallid Swift
Common/Pallid Swift
Little Swift
Horus Swift
White-rumped Swift
Apus/Tachymarptis sp.
African Palm Swift
swift sp.
Flufftails
White-spotted Flufftail
Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
African Crake
Spotted Crake
Lesser Moorhen
Eurasian Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Allen's Gallinule
African Swamphen
Black Crake
Little Crake
Baillon's Crake
rail/crake sp.
Finfoots
African Finfoot
Cranes
Black Crowned-Crane
Common Crane
Shorebirds
Spotted Thick-knee
Eurasian Thick-knee
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus sp.
Egyptian Plover
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
European Golden-Plover
American Golden-Plover
Common Ringed Plover
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Forbes's Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Spur-winged Lapwing
Black-headed Lapwing
White-crowned Lapwing
Wattled Lapwing
lapwing sp.
Kittlitz's Plover
White-fronted Plover
Kentish Plover
small plover sp.
plover sp.
Greater Painted-Snipe
Lesser Jacana
African Jacana
Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew
Whimbrel/Eurasian Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed/Black-tailed Godwit
godwit sp.
Jack Snipe
Great Snipe
Common Snipe
snipe sp.
Red Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Redshank
Common Greenshank
Tringa sp.
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Temminck's Stint
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Curlew Sandpiper/Dunlin
Baird's Sandpiper
Little Stint
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
peep sp.
Calidris sp.
large shorebird sp.
Small Buttonquail
Quail-plover
Bronze-winged Courser
Cream-colored Courser
Temminck's Courser
Collared Pratincole
pratincole sp.
shorebird sp.
Skuas and Jaegers
Long-tailed Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed/Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic/Pomarine Jaeger
Great Skua
South Polar Skua
jaeger sp.
skua sp.
jaeger/skua sp.
Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Little Gull
Sabine's Gull
Slender-billed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Gray-hooded Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Audouin's Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Common Gull
Kelp Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus sp.
gull sp.
African Skimmer
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Sooty Tern
Bridled Tern
Little Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
Black Tern
White-winged Tern
Chlidonias sp.
Arctic Tern
Common Tern
Common/Arctic Tern
Roseate Tern
Sterna sp.
Sandwich Tern
Lesser Crested Tern
West African Crested Tern
tern sp.
gull/tern sp.
Tropicbirds
Red-billed Tropicbird
Storm-Petrels
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
White-faced Storm-Petrel
European Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Hydrobates sp.
storm-petrel sp. (white-rumped)
storm-petrel sp.
Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving-Petrels
Bulwer's Petrel
Cory's Shearwater
Cape Verde Shearwater
Cory's/Cape Verde Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater
Barolo Shearwater
Boyd's Shearwater
Barolo/Boyd's Shearwater (Macaronesian Shearwater)
black-and-white shearwater sp.
shearwater sp.
Storks
Black Stork
Abdim's Stork
African Woolly-necked Stork
White Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Marabou Stork
Yellow-billed Stork
stork sp.
Frigatebirds, Boobies, and Gannets
Magnificent Frigatebird
Northern Gannet
Red-footed Booby
Brown Booby
booby sp.
sulid sp.
Cormorants and Anhingas
African Darter
Long-tailed Cormorant
Great Cormorant
cormorant sp.
Pelicans
Great White Pelican
Pink-backed Pelican
pelican sp.
Shoebill and Hammerkop
Hamerkop
Herons, Ibis, and Allies
White-crested Tiger-Heron
Great Bittern
Dwarf Bittern
Little Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black Heron
Little Egret
Western Reef-Heron
Little Egret x Western Reef-Heron (hybrid)
Little Egret/Western Reef-Heron
White-backed Night Heron
Striated Heron
Squacco Heron
Western Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Yellow-billed Egret
Great/Medium Egret
Gray Heron
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Purple Heron
Black-headed Heron
Goliath Heron
heron sp.
white egret sp.
Glossy Ibis
African Sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
Eurasian Spoonbill
African Spoonbill
spoonbill sp.
Vultures, Hawks, and Allies
Osprey
Black-winged Kite
Scissor-tailed Kite
African Harrier-Hawk
Palm-nut Vulture
Egyptian Vulture
European Honey-buzzard
White-headed Vulture
Cinereous Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell's Griffon
White-backed Vulture/Rüppell's Griffon
Eurasian Griffon
Gyps sp.
old world vulture sp.
Bateleur
Short-toed Snake-Eagle
Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle
Brown Snake-Eagle
Banded Snake-Eagle
snake-eagle sp.
Crowned Eagle
Martial Eagle
Long-crested Eagle
Wahlberg's Eagle
Booted Eagle
Tawny Eagle
Bonelli's Eagle
African Hawk-Eagle
Aquila sp.
Lizard Buzzard
Dark Chanting-Goshawk
Gabar Goshawk
Grasshopper Buzzard
Western Marsh Harrier
Pallid Harrier
Montagu's Harrier
Pallid/Montagu's Harrier
harrier sp.
African Goshawk
Shikra
Red-thighed Sparrowhawk
Ovambo Sparrowhawk
Black Goshawk
Accipiter sp.
Black Kite
African Fish-Eagle
Common Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard
Red-necked Buzzard
Buteo sp.
hawk sp.
eagle sp.
Owls
Barn Owl
Eurasian Scops-Owl
African Scops-Owl
Northern White-faced Owl
Grayish Eagle-Owl
Pharaoh Eagle-Owl
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
Pel's Fishing-Owl
Pearl-spotted Owlet
African Wood-Owl
Short-eared Owl
Marsh Owl
owl sp.
Mousebirds
Blue-naped Mousebird
Trogons and Quetzals
Narina Trogon
Hoopoes
Eurasian Hoopoe
Woodhoopoes and Scimitarbills
Green Woodhoopoe
woodhoopoe sp.
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Black Scimitarbill
woodhoopoe/scimitarbill sp.
Hornbills
Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill
West African Pied Hornbill
African Gray Hornbill
Western Red-billed Hornbill
Yellow-casqued Hornbill
Piping Hornbill
Kingfishers
Shining-blue Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Gray-headed Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Striped Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
kingfisher sp.
Bee-eaters, Rollers, and Allies
Red-throated Bee-eater
Little Bee-eater
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
White-throated Bee-eater
African Green Bee-eater
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
Northern Carmine Bee-eater
bee-eater sp.
European Roller
Abyssinian Roller
Rufous-crowned Roller
Blue-bellied Roller
roller sp.
Broad-billed Roller
Barbets and Toucans
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
tinkerbird sp.
Vieillot's Barbet
Bearded Barbet
Honeyguides
Wahlberg's Honeyguide
Willcocks's Honeyguide
Lesser Honeyguide
Spotted Honeyguide
Greater Honeyguide
honeyguide sp.
Woodpeckers
Eurasian Wryneck
Little Gray Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Brown-backed Woodpecker
African Gray Woodpecker
Buff-spotted Woodpecker
Green-backed Woodpecker
Fine-spotted Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
woodpecker sp.
Falcons and Caracaras
Lesser Kestrel
Eurasian Kestrel
Lesser/Eurasian Kestrel
Fox Kestrel
Gray Kestrel
Red-necked Falcon
Red-footed Falcon
Eurasian Hobby
African Hobby
Lanner Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
falcon sp.
diurnal raptor sp.
Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Budgerigar
Brown-necked Parrot
Senegal Parrot
parrot sp.
Cuckooshrikes
White-breasted Cuckooshrike
Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
Old World Orioles
Eurasian Golden Oriole
African Golden Oriole
old world oriole sp.
Wattle-eyes and Batises
Brown-throated Wattle-eye
Senegal Batis
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Vangas, Helmetshrikes, and Allies
White Helmetshrike
Bushshrikes and Allies
Brubru
Northern Puffback
puffback sp.
Black-crowned Tchagra
Turati's Boubou
Yellow-crowned Gonolek
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Gray-headed Bushshrike
Drongos
Sharpe's Drongo
Fork-tailed Drongo
Monarch Flycatchers
Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher
African Paradise-Flycatcher
paradise-flycatcher sp.
Shrikes
Red-tailed/Isabelline Shrike
Great Gray Shrike
Yellow-billed Shrike
Woodchat Shrike
Red-backed x Woodchat Shrike (hybrid)
Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens
Piapiac
Pied Crow
Brown-necked Raven
Hyliotas
Yellow-bellied Hyliota
Fairy Flycatchers
African Blue Flycatcher
Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice
White-shouldered Black-Tit
Penduline-Tits and Verdin
Sennar Penduline-Tit
Yellow Penduline-Tit
Larks
Greater Hoopoe-Lark
Rufous-rumped Lark
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark
Flappet Lark
Singing Bushlark
Mirafra sp.
Greater Short-toed Lark
Sun Lark
Crested Lark
lark sp.
Nicators
Western Nicator
Crombecs, Longbills, and Allies
Green Crombec
Northern Crombec
crombec sp.
Moustached Grass-Warbler
Cisticolas and Allies
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Senegal Eremomela
eremomela sp.
Green-backed Camaroptera
Cricket Longtail
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Tawny-flanked Prinia
River Prinia
Red-winged Prinia
prinia sp.
Oriole Warbler
Red-faced Cisticola
Singing Cisticola
Whistling Cisticola
Dorst's Cisticola
Winding Cisticola
Croaking Cisticola
Siffling Cisticola
Rufous Cisticola
Zitting Cisticola
Desert Cisticola
Black-backed Cisticola
cisticola sp.
Reed Warblers and Allies
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
Western Olivaceous Warbler
Eastern/Western Olivaceous Warbler
Melodious Warbler
Hippolais sp.
Aquatic Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Common Reed Warbler
Greater Swamp Warbler
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Great Reed Warbler
Acrocephalus sp.
Iduna/Hippolais/Acrocephalus sp.
Grassbirds and Allies
Savi's Warbler
Common Grasshopper Warbler
Helopsaltes/Locustella sp.
Martins and Swallows
Fanti Sawwing
Gray-rumped Swallow
Plain Martin
Bank Swallow
Eurasian Crag-Martin
Rock Martin
Hirundo sp.
Pied-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Red-chested Swallow
Wire-tailed Swallow
Western House-Martin
Red-rumped Swallow
Rufous-chested Swallow
Mosque Swallow
Preuss's Swallow
swallow sp.
Bulbuls
Slender-billed Greenbul
Gray-headed Bristlebill
Yellow-throated Greenbul
Swamp Greenbul
Simple Greenbul
Little Greenbul
White-throated Greenbul
Leaf-love
greenbul sp.
Common Bulbul
Leaf Warblers
Western Bonelli's Warbler
Willow Warbler
Common Chiffchaff
Iberian Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler/Common Chiffchaff/Iberian Chiffchaff
Common/Iberian Chiffchaff
Phylloscopus sp.
Hylias
Green Hylia
Sylviid Warblers
Eurasian Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Lesser Whitethroat
Western Orphean Warbler
Sardinian Warbler
Moltoni's Warbler
Western Subalpine Warbler
Western/Eastern Subalpine Warbler
Moltoni's/Western/Eastern Subalpine Warbler
Greater Whitethroat
Spectacled Warbler
Curruca sp.
Sylvia/Curruca sp.
old world warbler sp.
White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies
Northern Yellow White-eye
Ground Babblers and Allies
Brown Illadopsis
Puvel's Illadopsis
Laughingthrushes and Allies
Fulvous Chatterer
Capuchin Babbler
Brown Babbler
Blackcap Babbler
Argya/Turdoides sp.
Oxpeckers
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Starlings and Mynas
Violet-backed Starling
Neumann's Starling
Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Splendid Starling
Chestnut-bellied Starling
Lesser Blue-eared Starling
Greater Blue-eared Starling
Purple Starling
Bronze-tailed Starling
Lamprotornis sp.
Thrushes
African Thrush
Old World Flycatchers
Spotted Flycatcher
Swamp Flycatcher
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Muscicapa sp.
Pale Flycatcher
White-browed Forest-Flycatcher
Gray Tit-Flycatcher
Northern Black-Flycatcher
White-tailed Alethe
Black Scrub-Robin
Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
scrub-robin sp.
Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
White-crowned Robin-Chat
robin-chat sp.
Common Nightingale
Bluethroat
Red-breasted Flycatcher
European Pied Flycatcher
Ficedula sp.
Common Redstart
Black Redstart
Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
Blue Rock-Thrush
Whinchat
African Stonechat
Mocking Cliff-Chat
Northern Anteater-Chat
Northern Wheatear
Atlas Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
Heuglin's Wheatear
Desert Wheatear
Western Black-eared Wheatear
White-fronted Black-Chat
Familiar Chat
wheatear sp.
Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
Mouse-brown Sunbird
Western Violet-backed Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Pygmy Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird
Olive Sunbird
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
Olive-bellied Sunbird
Beautiful Sunbird
Splendid Sunbird
Variable Sunbird
Copper Sunbird
Cinnyris sp.
sunbird sp.
Weavers and Allies
White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Speckle-fronted Weaver
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver
Blue-billed Malimbe
Red-headed Weaver
Little Weaver
Olive-naped Weaver
Olive-naped/Black-necked Weaver
Vitelline Masked-Weaver
Heuglin's Masked-Weaver
Village Weaver
Black-headed Weaver
Ploceus sp.
Red-headed Quelea
Red-billed Quelea
Northern Red Bishop
Black-winged Bishop
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Yellow-mantled Widowbird
Euplectes sp.
Estrildids
Bronze Mannikin
Magpie Mannikin
African Silverbill
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
Lavender Waxbill
Orange-cheeked Waxbill
Black-rumped Waxbill
waxbill sp.
Quailfinch
Cut-throat
Zebra Waxbill
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
Western Bluebill
Green-winged Pytilia
Red-winged Pytilia
Dybowski's Twinspot
Red-billed Firefinch
African Firefinch
Mali Firefinch
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Black-bellied Firefinch
Bar-breasted Firefinch
Black-faced Firefinch
firefinch sp.
estrildid finch sp.
Indigobirds and Whydahs
Pin-tailed Whydah
Sahel Paradise-Whydah
Exclamatory Paradise-Whydah
Village Indigobird
Wilson's Indigobird
whydah sp.
indigobird sp.
Vidua sp.
Old World Sparrows
House Sparrow
Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
Sudan Golden Sparrow
Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow
Sahel Bush Sparrow
Wagtails and Pipits
Western Yellow Wagtail
African Pied Wagtail
White Wagtail
wagtail sp.
Tawny Pipit
Plain-backed Pipit
Meadow Pipit
Tree Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
pipit sp.
Yellow-throated Longclaw
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies
White-rumped Seedeater
Yellow-fronted Canary
Old World Buntings
Brown-rumped Bunting
Ortolan Bunting
Cabanis's Bunting
Gosling's Bunting
Others
passerine sp.
bird sp.
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