Bird AlbumSierra Leone · Eastern Province
Gola Rainforest NP – East
209 species and 887 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: December, with up to 79 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Yellow-casqued HornbillCeratogymna elata
Green HyliaHylia prasina
Yellow-billed TuracoTauraco macrorhynchus
Little GreenbulEurillas virens
Swamp Palm BulbulThescelocichla leucopleura
White-tailed AletheAlethe diademata
Orange-breasted Forest RobinStiphrornis erythrothorax
Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata
Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
Western OrioleOriolus brachyrynchus
Piping HornbillBycanistes fistulator
Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris
Sharpe's ApalisApalis sharpii
Western NicatorNicator chlorisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary24 km262 species
- Gola Rainforest NP – North43 km285 species
- Kenema53 km111 species
- Kambui Hills Forest Reserve – North70 km162 species
- Robertsport72 km182 species
All 209 species recorded here
- Yellow-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna elata
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
- White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata
- Orange-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh
- Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus
- Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Kemp's Longbill Macrosphenus kempi
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis
- Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Blackcap Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Brown-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes cylindricus
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Platysteira blissetti
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Latham's Francolin Peliperdix lathami
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius
- Yellow-bearded Greenbul Criniger olivaceus
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii
- Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
- Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
- Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Ahanta Spurfowl Pternistis ahantensis
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
- White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Ussher's Flycatcher Artomyias ussheri
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- Crimson Seedcracker Pyrenestes sanguineus
- Congo Serpent Eagle Circaetus spectabilis
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Pel's Fishing Owl Scotopelia peli
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Brown Nightjar Veles binotatus
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Gola Malimbe Malimbus ballmanni
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster
- White-necked Rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Forest Scrub Robin Tychaedon leucosticta
- Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Lowland Akalat Sheppardia cyornithopsis
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus
- Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Capuchin Babbler Turdoides atripennis
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Rufous Fishing Owl Scotopelia ussheri
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- White-breasted Guineafowl Agelastes meleagrides
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Western Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus hartlaubi
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Fraser's Eagle-Owl Ketupa poensis
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Gola Rainforest NP – East?
December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 79 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Gola Rainforest NP – East?
209 species, from 887 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Gola Rainforest NP – East in November?
The most recorded in November: Yellow-casqued Hornbill, Green Hylia, Yellow-billed Turaco, Little Greenbul and Swamp Palm Bulbul.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.