Gabon

Native species

trivial name	latin name	exhibits in the collection
Common Buzzard	Buteo buteo	32
European Bee-eater	Merops apiaster	7
Common Barn-owl	Tyto alba	16
Common Kestrel	Falco tinnunculus	16
Peregrine or Barbary Falcon	Falco peregrinus	6
Common or African Cuckoo	Cuculus canorus	8
Black Kite	Milvus migrans	9
Grey Heron	Ardea cinerea	7
Common Snipe	Gallinago gallinago	10
Common Bulbul	Pycnonotus barbatus	2
Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	6
Hobby	Falco subbuteo	3
Tree Pipit	Anthus trivialis	8
European Roller	Coracias garrulus	3
Sandwich tern	Thalasseus sandvicensis	2
Glossy ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	1
Whinchat	Saxicola rubetra	13
Wood Sandpiper	Tringa glareola	3
Greater Painted-snipe	Rostratula benghalensis	5
Lesser black-backed gull	Larus fuscus	14
Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	31
Eurasian Curlew	Numenius arquata	6
Red-backed Shrike	Lanius collurio	30
Western Marsh Harrier	Circus aeruginosus	8
Common Redshank	Tringa totanus	25
Common sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	10
Zitting Cisticola	Cisticola juncidis	1
Pin-tailed Whydah	Vidua macroura	1
Great Snipe	Gallinago media	1
Great Crested Grebe	Podiceps cristatus	4
Ruff	Calidris pugnax	3
Western Great Egret	Ardea alba	4
Common Swift	Apus apus	33
Great Reed Warbler	Acrocephalus arundinaceus	8
Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres	5
Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia	3
Red Knot	Calidris canutus	15
Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	2
Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	4
Willow Warbler	Phylloscopus trochilus	8
Eurasian Hoopoe	Upupa epops	11
Freckled Nightjar	Caprimulgus tristigma	3
Little Ringed Plover	Charadrius dubius	9
Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	10
Garden warbler	Sylvia borin	10
Corys shearwater	Calonectris diomedea	2
Icterine Warbler	Hippolais icterina	11
Black-and-white Munia	Spermestes bicolor	3
Zebra Waxbill	Amandava subflava	1
diederik cuckoo	Chrysococcyx caprius	1
Pied kingfisher	Ceryle rudis	4
Grey-headed kingfisher	Halcyon leucocephala	2
Spotted Flycatcher	Muscicapa striata	12
Whimbrel or Hudsonian Curlew	Numenius phaeopus	1
Crowned Eagle	Stephanoaetus coronatus	3
White Stork	Ciconia ciconia	5
Great cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	6
Arctic Tern	Sterna paradisaea	8
Lesser Striated Swallow	Cecropis daurica	4
Little Greenbul	Eurillas virens	1
Hamerkop	Scopus umbretta	2
Malachite Kingfisher	Corythornis cristatus	2
Helmeted Guineafowl	Numida meleagris	2
Kittlitz’s Plover	Charadrius pecuarius	4
African harrier-hawk	Polyboroides typus	1
Spotted Thick-knee	Burhinus capensis	1
Grey Plover	Pluvialis squatarola	10
Garganey	Anas querquedula	4
Grey Parrot	Psittacus erithacus	0
Western Cattle Egret	Bubulcus ibis	1
Little or House Swift	Apus affinis	3
Northern House-Martin	Delichon urbicum	12
Yellow-fronted canary	Serinus mozambicus	2
Black-crowned night-heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	3
Egyptian goose	Alopochen aegyptiacus	1
Estrilda melpoda	Estrilda melpoda	2
Orange-breasted bushshrike	Telophorus sulfureopectus	1
Purple Heron	Ardea purpurea	2
Tawny Eagle	Aquila rapax	1
Giant Kingfisher	Megaceryle maxima	1
Great White Pelican	Pelecanus onocrotalus	1
Collared Pratincole	Glareola pratincola	2
Pied Avocet	Recurvirostra avosetta	4
Sanderling	Calidris alba	2
Common Ringed Plover	Charadrius hiaticula	4
Blue-headed Wagtail	Motacilla flava	11
Sedge Warbler	Acrocephalus schoenobaenus	8
African fish eagle	Haliaeetus vocifer	2
European Stonechat	Saxicola rubicola	7
Lesser Grey Shrike	Lanius minor	10
Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	2
Black-headed Paradise Flycatcher	Terpsiphone rufiventer	2
Woodland kingfisher	Halcyon senegalensis	2
Sibirian Stonechat	Saxicola maura	1
Curlew Sandpiper	Calidris ferruginea	1
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird	Pogoniulus bilineatus	1
Black-winged Stilt, Common Stilt	Himantopus himantopus	1
Yellow-necked Greenbul	Chlorocichla falkensteini	1
Speckled Mousebird	Colius striatus	2
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul	Eurillas latirostris	1
Brown-hooded Kingfisher	Halcyon albiventris	1
Sand Martin	Riparia riparia	8
Green Sandpiper	Tringa ochropus	2
Tambourine Dove	Turtur tympanistria	1
Green-backed Twinspot	Mandingoa nitidula	1
Slender-tailed Nightjar	Caprimulgus fossii	2
Fiery-necked Nightjar	Caprimulgus pectoralis	4
Standard-winged Nightjar	Caprimulgus longipennis	2
Long-tailed, Slender-tailed Nightjar	Caprimulgus climacurus	4
Wood warbler	Phylloscopus sibilatrix	10
European Honey Buzzard	Pernis apivorus	3
Snowy-crowned Robin-chat	Cossypha niveicapilla	2
White-fronted bee-eater	Merops bullockoides	2
European nightjar	Caprimulgus europaeus	18
Blue-breasted kingfisher	Halcyon malimbica	3
Little Bittern	Ixobrychus minutus	6
African pygmy kingfisher	Ispidina picta	4
Little Tern	Sterna albifrons	3
Little Bee-eater	Merops pusillus	3
Little Stint	Calidris minuta	3
Little Grebe	Tachybaptus ruficollis	2
Forest robin	Stiphrornis erythrothorax	1
White-tailed Ant-Thrush	Neocossyphus poensis	1
Bronze Munia	Spermestes cucullata	1
Black Tern	Chlidonias niger	2
Kelp Gull	Larus dominicanus	9
Magpie Munia	Spermestes fringilloides	1
Guinea Turaco	Tauraco persa	1
Ring-necked Dove	Streptopelia capicola	1
Black-crowned Tchagra	Tchagra senegalus	2
Brown-crowned Tchagra	Tchagra australis	2
Brown-throated Wattle-eye	Platysteira cyanea	2
Southern Fiscal	Lanius collaris	3
Yellow-rumped Seedeater	Crithagra atrogularis	3
Eurasian Reed-Warbler	Acrocephalus scirpaceus	30
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill	Bycanistes subcylindricus	1
Spotted Eagle-Owl	Bubo africanus	1
Senegal Coucal	Centropus senegalensis	1
Dimorphic Reef-Egret	Egretta gularis	1

Introduced species

trivial name	latin name	exhibits in the collection
Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	4

Vagrant species

trivial name	latin name	exhibits in the collection
Eurasian Oystercatcher	Haematopus ostralegus	11
White Wagtail	Motacilla alba	11
Bonelli's Warbler	Phylloscopus bonelli	4
Eurasian Golden Oriole	Oriolus oriolus	9
Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	9
Common Whitethroat	Sylvia communis	8
Red-footed Falcon	Falco vespertinus	7
Pectoral sandpiper	Calidris melanotos	1
European Turtle-Dove	Streptopelia turtur	5
Corn Crake	Crex crex	4
Lesser kestrel	Falco naumanni	1
Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	1
Kentish Plover	Charadrius alexandrinus	2
Spur-winged Lapwing	Vanellus spinosus	1
Northern Wheatear	Oenanthe oenanthe	12
Black-tailed Godwid	Limosa limosa	1
Little gull	Hydrocoloeus minutus	4
Isabelline Shrike	Lanius isabellinus	5