Yankuba certainly knows birds and we had a fantastic three days with him. He is so friendly and knowledgeable and goes out of his way for you to see the birds. If you have target birds he tries to accomodate.
Would 100% recommend.

What an unbelievable experience. Yankuba is simply the finest birder ive ever had the privilege to meet. His ability to find birds is unbelievable. I asked him if he can smell them... honestly...superb. a lovely man with great customer service and a real talent. Recommended without reservation. I will definitely be seeing him again. Legend!

This is a great bird-guiding company! My wife was in The Gambia to work on a Rotary International project so we chose to bird from our home hotel in Banjul. I chose Gambia Birding Tours based in large part on the website: I was not disappointed. We spent 3 full days with Jammeh Yankuba and we were totally impressed. Not only is Jammeh an expert birder and photographer, he is a thoughtful guide, making sure we could see the birds he spotted and that I got great photos. When needed, he would play the bird songs to attract curious birds. We really enjoyed the canoe trip in the mangroves: he patiently followed a gorgeous Malachite Kingfisher until it posed in perfect range of my lens. In our 3 days we saw a great range of habitat and bird species; I counted at least 60 new life birds. We have birded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Argentina and the birding with Gambia Birding Tours is clearly in the league of those birding tours. I highly recommend them!

Very appreciative of Yankuba and the gents that I joined on a 10 tour Feb/March. The birds and wildlife exceeded all expectations. After the set tour was finished, Yankuba put together a plan to go after some wanted targets during the extra days that I had left, and he once again exceeded what I thought was possible during that time. Thank you once again for an amazing trip.
Danny

We traveled to Gambia as a group of four at the end of November and beginning of December for an 11-day tour. Before our arrival, Yankuba kept in touch with us and organized the route. Although we couldn't do the tour with him, we were guided by another excellent guide named Madi Faye, who treated us wonderfully, and we thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Our driver, David, was also outstanding. Gambia is a fantastic destination for birdwatching and for other interesting fauna and flora, and we were able to enjoy it to the fullest with the help of Madi and David, as well as the great organization provided by Yankuba. Highly recommended!

In late February and early March 2025 we did a 10 day trip with Yankuba. We really enjoyed our time in the Gambia. The country is great and so are the birds. Yankuba prepared a fantastic itinerary to visit the different habitats in the country and we got 280 species!!! Yankuba is a great guide both at finding birds and at sorting out the logistic details. Recommend it 100%

Jordi and Juan

Just got home from our unfortetable trip to the Gambia. We had an incredible 4 day trip. We saw 155 species of birds, Chimpazees, crocodiles and hippos. Our guide Madi was briliant so knowledgable and friendly he went above and beyond to make our trip really special. Even writting out all the species that we saw on our trip. If you love wildlife you will love a trip with gambia birding tours. Thank you for a fabulous tour Madi

In February we booked a 10-day trip with Yankuba. Everything was well arranged and during the tour there was good consultation to fine-tune our wishes. Because we like to take photographs, it was nice that Yankuba thought along about lighting, for example.
In addition to more than 220 bird species, we also saw many other animals, including 5 species of monkeys. It was also very special that together we discovered a new species for Gambia, the Amur Falcon, a very cool experience. We can definitely recommend a tour with Yankuba and hope to come back again ourselves!

I booked two days tour myself alone, and I am very satisfied with my choice, as I had a nice guide, with a lot of birds knowledge, very kind and very commited to show me the species I liked the most. Also I appreciate a lot Yankuba's help to arrange my accomodation, etc. I would recommend it a lot!

We had 4 days with Jankubah and enjoyed his expertise in finding the wanted birds. He has great knowledge of the wildlife in the Gambia and were to find the birds.