Senegal Trip update

Limosa’s popular tour to Senegal, which often fills many months in advance, returned last week after the latest successful visit and Limosa guide Frank Lambert reports as follows:

“This tour provides an excellent opportunity to see most of the special birds that are largely or entirely confined to the Sahel, a narrow zone lying between the Sudanian Savanna to the south, and the Sahara Desert to the north. Within the Sahel belt, only Senegal is sufficiently stable and safe to visit in search of these Sahel species, and moreover, it has excellent tourist infrastructure.

Limosa’s third tour to Senegal was a great success, thanks largely to ensuring that we had the best local guide and agent for birding in the country, with nearly all our main targets seen very well. Of the key birds we were targeting on the tour, we saw and had excellent photographic opportunities of almost all, including African Finfoot, White-crested Tiger Heron, various vultures, Savile’s Bustard, Egyptian Plover, White-crowned Plover, Golden and Standard-winged Nightjars and Northern White-faced Owl in the daytime, Adamawa Turtle Dove, Little Grey Woodpecker, Northern Carmine and Red-throated Bee-eaters, Atlas (Seebohm’s) Wheatear, Cricket Longtail, Sudan Golden Sparrow, Sahel Paradise Wydahs in their spectacular full breeding plumage, and ‘Black-faced’ Quailfinch.

In addition, we witnessed thousands of Scissor-tailed Kites coming to a roost on an island in the Saloum River and got close to a truly spectacular Great White Pelican colony in the Djoudj Bird Sanctuary.

Senegal also provides important wintering habitat Palearctic migrants, including a variety of raptors such as harriers and Osprey, along with Woodchat Shrikes, Eurasian Hoopoes, European Turtle Doves, European Bee-eaters, Western Bonelli’s, Western Subalpine and Western Olivaceous Warblers.”

Dates and rates for our next departure (January 2027) are already on the Limosa website and please click here for more information.