Bird AlbumGambia · West Coast Division
Pirang Forest NP
278 species and 8,564 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May and November, with up to 152 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
Verreaux's Eagle-OwlKetupa lactea
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Brown-throated Wattle-eyePlatysteira cyanea
Blue-spotted Wood DoveTurtur afer
Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus
Yellow-breasted ApalisApalis flavida
Red-bellied Paradise FlycatcherTerpsiphone rufiventer
Western Plantain-eaterCrinifer piscator
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
Little GreenbulEurillas virens
Northern White-faced OwlPtilopsis leucotis
African Pygmy KingfisherIspidina picta
Black-necked WeaverPloceus nigricollisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Farasuto Forest Community NR2 km305 species
- Pirang Fish Ponds3 km328 species
- Marakissa Rivercamp15 km260 species
- Abuko NR16 km338 species
- Lamin / Tambi Rice Fields17 km261 species
- Brufut Woods25 km301 species
All 278 species recorded here
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus
- Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Violet Turaco Tauraco violaceus
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Western Red-billed Hornbill Tockus kempi
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- Double-spurred Spurfowl Pternistis bicalcaratus
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Blackcap Babbler Turdoides reinwardtii
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Ahanta Spurfowl Pternistis ahantensis
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura
- Lavender Waxbill Glaucestrilda caerulescens
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Bearded Barbet Pogonornis dubius
- Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Pied-winged Swallow Hirundo leucosoma
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
- Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca
- Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Red-chested Swallow Hirundo lucida
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Pallid Swift Apus pallidus
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
- Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- White-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis albirostris
- Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Crested Lark Galerida cristata
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Goliath Heron Ardea goliath
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Red-winged Prinia Prinia erythroptera
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- White-backed Night Heron Calherodius leuconotus
- Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Exclamatory Paradise Whydah Vidua interjecta
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Black Crowned Crane Balearica pavonina
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Mangrove Sunbird Anthreptes gabonicus
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Rufous Cisticola Cisticola rufus
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Western Subalpine Warbler Curruca iberiae
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- West African Crested Tern Thalasseus albididorsalis
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- African Green Bee-eater Merops viridissimus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Pirang Forest NP?
May and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 152 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Pirang Forest NP?
278 species, from 8,564 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Pirang Forest NP in November?
The most recorded in November: Congo Pied Hornbill, Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, Common Bulbul, Brown-throated Wattle-eye and Blue-spotted Wood Dove.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.