Bird AlbumSierra Leone · Western Area
Congo Dam
155 species and 497 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January, with up to 18 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Mount Aureol7 km80 species
- River No. 2 Beach9 km112 species
- Freetown Golf Course10 km127 species
All 155 species recorded here
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura
- Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi
- Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus
- Yellow-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna elata
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Forest Scrub Robin Tychaedon leucosticta
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Capuchin Babbler Turdoides atripennis
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Turati's Boubou Laniarius turatii
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Brown-chested Alethe Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
- Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora
- Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini
- Lowland Akalat Sheppardia cyornithopsis
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Mangrove Sunbird Anthreptes gabonicus
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Crimson Seedcracker Pyrenestes sanguineus
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Congo Dam?
January. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 18 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Congo Dam?
155 species, from 497 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.