KnowKi

Learn the wildlife of any country

Learn the wildlife of Senegal

Africa

2,057 species have research-grade observations in Senegal on iNaturalist. KnowKi turns the most recorded into short lessons with real photos, so you can learn a country's wildlife from home.

Start this trip in KnowKi →
Āki the kiwi, KnowKi's guide

Most recorded here

The species with the most research-grade observations on iNaturalist, and how many each has. Most recorded doesn't mean native.

Birds

  1. Black Kite Milvus migrans380
  2. Western Red-billed Hornbill Tockus kempi314
  3. Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus307
  4. Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis304
  5. Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis302
  6. Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus266
  7. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo265
  8. Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus256
  9. Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala252
  10. Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus236

Plants

  1. African baobab Adansonia digitata461
  2. Borassus akeassii231
  3. Giant milkweed Calotropis procera220
  4. Red kapok tree Bombax costatum153
  5. Shea Tree Vitellaria paradoxa126
  6. Chinese Apple Ziziphus mauritiana103
  7. Sterculia setigera99
  8. African locust bean Parkia biglobosa94
  9. Tamarind Tamarindus indica93
  10. Icacina oliviformis92

Mammals

  1. Green Monkey Chlorocebus sabaeus297
  2. Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus248
  3. Patas Monkey Erythrocebus patas183
  4. Guinea Baboon Papio papio149
  5. Northern Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus101
  6. Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus100
  7. Kob Kobus kob90
  8. African Wolf Canis lupaster89
  9. Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus gambianus82
  10. Striped Ground Squirrel Euxerus erythropus82

Insects

  1. Plain Tiger Butterfly Danaus chrysippus116
  2. Citrus Swallowtail Papilio demodocus68
  3. Broad Scarlet Crocothemis erythraea64
  4. Pioneer White Belenois aurota58
  5. Danaid Eggfly Hypolimnas misippus50
  6. Northern Banded Groundling Brachythemis impartita45
  7. Black Percher Diplacodes lefebvrii42
  8. Dancing Amber Telchinia serena42
  9. Western Honey Bee Apis mellifera40
  10. Violet Dropwing Trithemis annulata37

Spiders and kin

  1. Banded-legged golden orb-web spider Trichonephila senegalensis37
  2. Androctonus dekeyseri18
  3. Common Garden Orbweb Spider Argiope australis12

Reptiles

  1. West African Crocodile Crocodylus suchus560
  2. Nile Monitor Varanus niloticus255
  3. Rainbow Agama Agama agama205
  4. Peters's Rock Agama Agama picticauda51
  5. African Spurred Tortoise Centrochelys sulcata43
  6. Senegambian Wall Gecko Tarentola senegambiae42
  7. Fire-sided Skink Trachylepis perrotetii39
  8. African Rock Python Python sebae34
  9. Senegal Chameleon Chamaeleo senegalensis30
  10. Hemidactylus guineensis25

Amphibians

  1. Crowned bullfrog Hoplobatrachus occipitalis38
  2. Egyptian Toad Sclerophrys regularis21
  3. Galam white-lipped frog Hylarana galamensis15

Fish

  1. Atlantic Mudskipper Periophthalmus barbarus40
  2. Spotfin Burrfish Chilomycterus reticulatus19
  3. Bennett's Puffer Ephippion guttifer19
  4. Honeycomb Moray Muraena melanotis17
  5. Guinean burrfish Chilomycterus mauretanicus17
  6. Longspined Porcupinefish Diodon holocanthus15
  7. Planehead Filefish Stephanolepis hispida15
  8. Saddled Snake Eel Pisodonophis semicinctus14
  9. Monrovia Doctorfish Acanthurus monroviae13
  10. Dark Moray Gymnothorax afer12

How a trip works

A trip has its own trail of lessons: meet six species, match them to new photos, then practice with four choices. Species you learn go into your Fieldbook, and starting a trip earns its Passport stamp. Your home place stays as it is.

Start this trip in KnowKi →

Species lists and counts from research-grade observations on iNaturalist, as of October 2026. Free, with no ads, no account and no purchases.