Birds of Guinea-Bissau

List of Common Birds Found in Guinea-Bissau

Native Birds

• Abyssinian Roller
• African Black Duck
• African Blue Flycatcher
• African Cuckoo-hawk
• African Darter
• African Fish-eagle
• African Goshawk
• African Green Pigeon
• African Gray Hornbill
• African Harrier-hawk
• African Hobby
• African Jacana
• African Marsh Harrier
• African Openbill
• African Palm Swift
• African Paradise Flycatcher
• African Pied Hornbill
• African Pied Wagtail
• African Pipit
• African Pygmy Goose
• African Pygmy Kingfisher
• African Sacred Ibis
• African Scops Owl
• African Spoonbill
• African Thrush
• African Wattled Lapwing
• African Wood Owl
• African Yellow Warbler
• African Yellow White-eye
• Allen’s Gallinule
• Bearded Barbet
• Beautiful Sunbird 
• Black Crake
• Black Crowned Crane
• Black Crowned Tchagra
• Black-headed Lapwing
• Black-headed Weaver
• Black Heron
• Black-shouldered Kite
• Black-winged Kite
• Blue-bellied Roller
• Blue-breasted Kingfisher
• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
• Blue-spotted Wood Dove
• Brown Snake Eagle
• Bruce’s Green Pigeon
• Buff-spotted Flufftail
• Cattle Egret
• Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Weaver
• Collared Pratincole
• Collared Sunbird
• Common Greenshank
• Copper Sunbird
• Crested Barbet
• Crested Francolin
• Crested Lark
• Dark Chanting Goshawk
• Double-spurred Francolin
• Eastern Grey Plantain-eater
• Egyptian Plover
• Eurasian Golden Oriole
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• European Bee-eater
• European Roller
• Four-banded Sandgrouse
• Grasshopper Buzzard
• Great Blue Turaco
• Great Cormorant
• Green Turaco
• Grey-headed Kingfisher
• Greyish Eagle-owl
• Grey Kestrel
• Hadada Ibis
• Hamerkop 
• Hooded Vulture
• Lanner Falcon
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Blue-eared Starling
• Lesser Honeyguide
• Little Bee-eater
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Little Greenbul
• Little Ringed Plover
• Little Stint
• Long-crested Eagle
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Long-tailed Nightjar
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mosque Swallow
• Northern Black Flycatcher
• Northern Carmine Bee-eater
• Northern Crombec
• Northern Fiscal
• Northern Red Bishop
• Northern Wheatear
• Olive Bee-eater
• Osprey
• Pallid Harrier
• Pearl-spotted Owlet
• Pied Crow 
• Pied Kingfisher 
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Purple Glossy Starling
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Red-chested Swallow
• Red-eyed Dove
• Red-faced Cisticola
• Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
• Red-throated Bee-eater
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Rufous-crowned Roller
• Ruppell’s Vulture
• Saddle-billed Stork
• Sahel Paradise Whydah
• Sanderling
• Sand Martin
• Scarlet-chested Sunbird
• Senegal Batis
• Senegal Coucal
• Senegal Parrot
• Village Weaver 
• White-Throated Bee Eater 
• Yellow-crowned Gonolek

Non-native Birds

• Afep Pigeon
• African Finfoot
• Brown Noddy
• Common Quail
• Kelp Gull
• Lesser Jacana
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Rock Pigeon
• Rock Pratincole
• Spotted Thick-knee

Guinea-Bissau is a great place to go birdwatching, with popular sites including Orango Islands National Park, Cacheu River Mangroves, and João Vieira and Poilão National Marine Park. The dry season is the best time to go birding in the nation, generally between November and April. This is because birds can be seen crowding around water sources and, as a result, are more visible during this time.