African Bird Club

Western Bluebill - male and female

Photographer

» The late Eddie Brewer

Location

» The Gambia

Country image taken

» The Gambia

Date

» January, 1980

Equipment

» Nikon

Bird Species

»Spermophaga haematina - Western Bluebill

Bird Species (French)

»Sénégali sanguin

Bird Family

»Estrildidae - Waxbills, Mannikins & Allies

Bird Group

»Passeriformes Flycatchers, Starlings, Sunbirds, Swallows, Warblers, Weavers etc

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Eddie Brewer, the first Director of the Gambian Department of Parks and Wildlife Management provided a number of slides. These were subsequently passed to the Gambia Birding Group for safe keeping. The photographs were mainly taken in the Department's Abuko Reserve.