Gabon 2022

Yellow-billed Stork

Wing-snapping Cisticola

White-bibbed Swallow

Male Village Weaver

Vieillot's Black Weaver nests

Male Vieillot's Black Weaver

Square-tailed Nightjar

Sjostedt's Greenbul

Rosy Bee-eater

Pink-backed Pelican

Male Pied Kingfisher

Palm Nut Vulture

Long-legged Pipit

Hadada Ibis

Grey Parrot

Grey Greenbul

Female Giant Kingfisher

Male Copper Sunbird

Male Copper Sunbird

Common Bulbul

Common Bulbul

Bronze Mannikin

Blue-breasted Bee-eater

Black and White Mannikin

African Jacana

African Hoopoe

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Western Lowland Gorilla

Sitatunga

Sitatunga

Red-legged Sun Squirrel

Red River Hog

Red River Hog

Red River Hog

Red River Hog

Putty-nosed Monkey

Putty-nosed Monkey

Peter's Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat

Moustached Guenon Monkey

Moustached Guenon Monkey

Mandrill

Mandrill

Mandrill

Mandrill

Grey-cheeked Mangabey

Grey-cheeked Mangabey

Green Bush Squirrel

Gabon Talapoin Monkey

Fire-footed Rope Squirrel

Black Colobus Monkey

Black Colobus Monkey

African Forest Elephant

Western Blotched Leopard butterfly

Western Blotched Leopard butterfly

Serrated Hinge-back Tortoise

Purple-brown Hairstreak buttefly

Male Peter's Rock Agama lizard

Pale Babul Blue butterfly

Le Breton's Agama lizard

Immature male Julia Skimmer dragonfly

Jodutta Acraea butterfly

Forest Leopard Butterfly

Falls Acraea

Elegant Acraea

Diverse White

Central African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Central African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Black and White Carpenter Bee
I went to Gabon with a friend, Mike Bird, on a trip organised by Martin Royle of Royle Safaris. We visited a small island in Akanda National Park near Libreville to see Talapoin monkeys then took an overnight train to Ivindo National Park to spend a couple of nights on a viewing platform at Langooue Bai deep in the forest. A long drive took us to Lope National Park where we tracked a large troop of Mandrills. After a few days at Lope we took another overnight train to N’djole from where we drove to the Albert Schweitzer Hospital at Lambarene. The next day we took a small boat along the Ogooue River to the coast and Loango National Park where we visited an habituated group of Western Lowland Gorillas.