15-Day Birding Tour in The Gambia with River Gambia Boat Trips

• Arrive in Banjul.
• Transfer to Senegambia Beach Hotel. In the evening, meet the local representative by 7 pm to discuss all arrangements.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• A morning excursion to Fajara Golf Course, Kotu Ponds, and Kotu Creek will begin with some of the common species such as whimbrels, shanks, parrots, starlings, councils, and more.
• Lunch at a local restaurant.
• In the afternoon, continue to the Madiana area for hornbills, warblers, rollers, starlings, and more.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Morning excursion to Abuko Nature Reserve, the first protected area of The Gambia, for target species such as goshawks, blue-bills, turacos, bee-eaters, hornbills, and more.
• Lunch at Lamin Lodge.
• In the afternoon, visit Lamin Fields to look for waxbills, shrikes, long claws, herons, kites, eagles, and many more.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Morning excursion to Pirang, Farabasutu, and the Bonto area for more target species such as cranes, hawks, pelicans, queleas, sunbirds, terns, and more.
• Lunch at Sita Joyeh Resort.
• In the afternoon, visit the Farasutu Community Forest area to look for owls, nightjars, turacos, cuckoos, redstarts, and many more.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Full-day excursion to the Marakissa and Darsilami area for more species such as painted snipe, honeyguides, starlings, eagles, and lots more.
• Lunch at Marakissa River Camp.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Morning visit to Tanji Bird Reserve for ospreys, terns, bulls, shrikes, bishops, rollers, leafloves, bee-eaters, swallows, and more.
• Lunch at a local restaurant.
• In the afternoon, visit the Banjul wetlands and coast for spoonbills, storks, pelicans, oystercatchers, sanderlings, shanks, and more.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Morning visit to the Brufut forest area to look for shrikes, starlings, waxbills, rollers, and many more.
• Lunch at the hotel.
• In the afternoon, return to the hotel for a siesta.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• After breakfast at the hotel, travel along the South Bank Road to Tendaba, looking out for bateleurs, goshawks, buzzards, rollers, bee-eaters, hornbills, shrikes, and more.
• Lunch at Tendaba Camp.
• In the afternoon, take a boat trip to the north bank of the River Gambia. Top targets include Pel's fishing owls, white-backed night herons, storks, darters, falcons, whimbrels, and more.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Morning boat trip to the north bank of the River Gambia for missing target species, as well as crocodiles and otters.
• Lunch at Tendaba Camp.
• In the afternoon, continue along Batelling South Track to Kiang West National Park for ground hornbills, bateleurs, hawks, buzzards, falcons, tree pipits, coursers, barbets, and more.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Leave Tendaba Camp after breakfast and cross the river at Farafenni to the North Bank Road. Travel along the North Bank Road with birding stops along the way for main targets such as Egyptian plovers, coucals, whydahs, flycatchers, rollers, and queleas.
• Picnic lunch from Tendaba, eaten on the way.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Travel by boat from camp to Sapu for weavers, kingfishers, swamp flycatchers, night herons, ducks, geese, vultures, marabou storks, and more.
• Lunch on the boat.
• In the afternoon, enjoy local birding on the way back to Janjangbureh.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Excursion to Kunkilling Forest and Bansang Quarry for carmine bee-eaters, rollers, vultures, hawks, and many forest species.
• Picnic lunch from Baobolong Annex Camp, eaten on the way.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Leave Baobolong Camp after breakfast and travel along the South Bank Road. Make stops on the way, particularly at Jakhaly Pacharr rice fields, for bitterns, marabou storks, ibises, hawks, and more.
• Picnic lunch from Baobolong Annex, eaten on the way.
• In the late afternoon, continue to Batelling East Track for some forest species and overnight at Tendaba Camp.

• Morning local birding around Tendaba to look for more forest species.
• Lunch at Tendaba Camp.
• In the afternoon, drive back to the coast on the South Bank Road and continue birding.

Dinner and overnight at Lemon Creek 3-star Beach Hotel.

• Breakfast at the beach hotel.
• Morning bird-watching near the coast.
• Lunch at Lemon Creek Beach Hotel.
• Afternoon transfer to Banjul Airport.