Birds around Kotu, Gambia

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This 2012 video is called Gambia birding near Kotu Creek.

Monday 13 February.

After yesterday, we are back in Kotu, on the west coast of the Gambia.

A blue-breasted kingfisher.

Also some house sparrows, whose ancestors, it seems, arrived in Gambia in the 1980s as ship “passengers”.

Senegal coucal. Little bee-eater.

We are going to Brufut Woods again.

Northern white-faced scops owl, Brufut Woods, the Gambia, 13 February 2012

A northern white-faced scops owl in a tree.

Hooded vulture, Brufut rubbish dump, the Gambia, 13 February 2012

There is a rubbish dump in Brufut as well, attracting hooded vultures.

Hooded vulture, Brufut rubbish dump, Gambia, 13 February 2012

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