List of birds of the Gambia
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This is a list of the bird species recorded in The Gambia. The avifauna of The Gambia include a total of 621 species, two of which have been introduced. The country, which is very small and almost completely surrounded by Senegal, has no endemic species.
This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (English and scientific names) are those of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.[1]
The following tags have been used to highlight several categories. Not all species will fall into one of these categories. Those that do not are commonly occurring native species.
- (A) Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in the Gambia[2]
- (I) Introduced - a species introduced to the Gambia as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions
- (Ex) Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in the Gambia although populations exist elsewhere