Bird AlbumCôte d’Ivoire · Lagunes (Région des)
Foret du Banco
215 species and 1,943 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March, with up to 56 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidus
Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
Black KiteMilvus migrans
African JacanaActophilornis africanus
Yellow-billed TuracoTauraco macrorhynchus
Bronze MannikinSpermestes cucullata
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Chestnut-breasted NigritaNigrita bicolor
Black-and-white MannikinSpermestes bicolor
Blue-billed MalimbeMalimbus nitens
Swamp Palm BulbulThescelocichla leucopleura
Orange-cheeked WaxbillEstrilda melpoda
African Palm SwiftCypsiurus parvus
Green HyliaHylia prasinaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Jardin Botanique de Bingerville19 km100 species
- Yapo and Mambo Forest Reserves35 km128 species
All 215 species recorded here
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster
- Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
- Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata
- Congo Serpent Eagle Circaetus spectabilis
- Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster
- Akun Eagle-Owl Ketupa leucosticta
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Reichenbach's Sunbird Anabathmis reichenbachii
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
- Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus
- Black Spinetail Telacanthura melanopygia
- Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
- Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata
- Orange-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Yellow-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna elata
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- West African Crested Tern Thalasseus albididorsalis
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Ussher's Flycatcher Artomyias ussheri
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Bristle-nosed Barbet Gymnobucco peli
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Common Swift Apus apus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Foret du Banco?
March. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 56 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Foret du Banco?
215 species, from 1,943 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Foret du Banco in November?
The most recorded in November: Splendid Starling, Congo Pied Hornbill, Black Kite, African Jacana and Yellow-billed Turaco.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.