Bird AlbumMauritania · Brakna
Lac Aleg
120 species and 326 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September, with up to 14 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 120 species recorded here
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe
- Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Sudan Golden Sparrow Passer luteus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix nigriceps
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- African Swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Brown-necked Raven Corvus ruficollis
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Bluethroat Luscinia svecica
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Western Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Kittlitz's Plover Anarhynchus pecuarius
- Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca
- Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer
- Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Western Subalpine Warbler Curruca iberiae
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- European Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis rufula
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- White-crowned Wheatear Oenanthe leucopyga
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus
- Cricket Warbler Spiloptila clamans
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Sahel Paradise Whydah Vidua orientalis
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Pallid Swift Apus pallidus
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops
- African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Desert Sparrow Passer simplex
- Western Red-billed Hornbill Tockus kempi
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- White-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis albirostris
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Lac Aleg?
September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 14 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Lac Aleg?
120 species, from 326 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.