A last-minute week in Gambia with Sunbird. An excellent week, although we did not see our main target, Egyptian Plover - they migrated upriver early this year. We did find 8 species of Bee-Eater, 4 Rollers, and 31 raptors! Photos above - 1.Painted Snipe, 2.Slender-billed Gull, 3.Yellow-billed Stork, 4.Wattled Plover, 5.Greenshank, 6.Pied Kingfisher, 7.Blue-breasted Kingfisher, 8.Grasshopper Buzzard, 9.Sulphur-breasted Bush-Shrike, 10.Black-crowned Tchagra, 11. Abyssinian Roller, 12a/b.Blue-bellied Roller, 13 a/b.Red-throated Bee-Eater,14.Swallow-tailed Bee-Eater. Altogether I recorded 25 new species. Highlights included - the creek crawl at Tendaba with assorted herons and Hammerkops, together with Blue-cheeked and White-throated Bee-eaters - the road along the north bank of the Gambia river, with many Vultures and Stanley's Bustard, and Northern Carmine Bee-eaters - Abuko with Green and Violet Turacos, together with Western Bluebill - and Tanji beach with Audouin's and Slender-billed Gulls, together with Caspian and Royal Terns.
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