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Home  |  Hot spots | Birding hot spots  | Kartong sandmines



Kartong sandmines (Coastal birding spot)

Kartong sand mines lies on the western coast of the Gambia some 50km from the main tourist area. This former sand mining area is home to the only Bird Observatory in the country. The area is a combination of extensive reed beds, rice fields, scrub, dunes, mudflats, woodland and shoreline, providing home for a whole host of exotic species including,

- Greater Painted Snipe,
- Black Crake,
- White Fronted Plover,
- African Crake,
- Blue Cheeked bee eater,
- Purple Swamphen,
- African Pygmy Goose,
- Allen’s Gallinule,
- Reed Warbler,
- Malachite Kingfisher,
- Caspian Tern,
- Crested lark,
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whilst the exlusive

- Black Crowned Crane 
- Vagrant Hudsonian Whimbrel

are occasionally recorded here.

Some pictures taken on the 2015 experience:


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