Tuesday 5 February 2013

The Gambia January 2013

Photographs from a recent Limosa tour to The Gambia

African Thrush (Turdus pelios chiguancoides)

Guinea Baboon (Papio Papio)

Little Bee-eater (Merops pusillus)









Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Clouded Flat (Tagiades flesus)

Small Orange Acraea (Acraea serena serena)
African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus)
Blue Savannah Sapphire (Iolaus menas menas)
Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis)

Greater Painted-snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)

Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia)
Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus)
Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides)
West African Crocodile (Crocodilus niloticus)


Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata)

Abyssinian Roller (Coracias abyssinica)
Long-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus climacurus)

Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens)

























African Finfoot (Podica senegalensis)

Friday 1 February 2013

Black-bellied Dipper Thetford

Front cover!!