Bird AlbumSenegal · Thiès Region
RN de Popenguine
227 species and 4,503 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January–February, with up to 100 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
OspreyPandion haliaetus
Western Reef HeronEgretta gularis
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Gosling's BuntingEmberiza goslingi
Namaqua DoveOena capensis
Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
Red-cheeked Cordon-bleuUraeginthus bengalus
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
Little SwiftApus affinis
Green-backed CamaropteraCamaroptera brachyura
African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus
Speckled PigeonColumba guinea
Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflavaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- RN de Somone5 km196 species
- RN Technopole41 km217 species
- Ngor – Hotel Le Calao50 km166 species
All 227 species recorded here
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Western Red-billed Hornbill Tockus kempi
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Gosling's Bunting Emberiza goslingi
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Crested Lark Galerida cristata
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Anteater Chat Myrmecocichla aethiops
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Red-chested Swallow Hirundo lucida
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe
- Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- West African Crested Tern Thalasseus albididorsalis
- Common Whitethroat Curruca communis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Sahel Paradise Whydah Vidua orientalis
- Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Cut-throat Finch Amadina fasciata
- Western Subalpine Warbler Curruca iberiae
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Blue-naped Mousebird Urocolius macrourus
- Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Double-spurred Spurfowl Pternistis bicalcaratus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Sudan Golden Sparrow Passer luteus
- White-rumped Seedeater Crithagra leucopygia
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- White-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis albirostris
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris
- Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Western Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Pallid Swift Apus pallidus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Singing Bush Lark Mirafra javanica
- Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis
- African Darter Anhinga rufa
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela Eremomela icteropygialis
- Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos
- Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus
- Savile's Bustard Lophotis savilei
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Audouin's Gull Ichthyaetus audouinii
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Lavender Waxbill Glaucestrilda caerulescens
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
- Common Quail Coturnix coturnix
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- African Spoonbill Platalea alba
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Baillon's Crake Zapornia pusilla
- Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Sahel Bush Sparrow Gymnoris dentata
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- African Crake Crecopsis egregia
- Knob-billed Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Mediterranean Gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at RN de Popenguine?
January–February. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 100 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at RN de Popenguine?
227 species, from 4,503 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at RN de Popenguine in November?
The most recorded in November: Osprey, Western Reef Heron, Black Kite, Grey Heron and Gosling's Bunting.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.