18 Days - 17 Nights Ghana Birding Tour.

18 Days - 17 Nights Ghana Birding Trip Itinerary.

This unique 18 Days - 17 Nights Ghana Budget Birding Photography Tour, is carefully packaged to cover interesting birding sites for a variety of Upper Guinea Endemics Species of Birds and Mammals in Ghana.

Day 1 ...... Arrival in Accra Ghana.

Upon arrival, you will be met by Adventure Birding Tours guide, who will welcome you and transport you to a bird friend hotel for a good night rest and prepare for your 18 Days - 17 Nights Bird and Wildlife Photography excursion in Ghana.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Accra. (Accra).

Day 2 ......... Shai Hills Reserve – Winneba Plains – Cape Coast.

Your birding excursion in Ghana will kick start today in the morning with a visit to the open grassland savannah of Shai Hills, hoping to see and photograph some good savannah birds and birds that are associated with this site like White Crowned Cliff Chat, Stone Partridge, Blue Bellied Roller, Purple Roller, Violet Turaco, Senegal Parrot, Swallow Tailed Bee-eater, Red Necked Buzzard, Oriole Warbler, Long Crested Eagle, Black Bellied Bustard, Temminck’s Courser, Red Shouldered Cuckooshrike, Whinchat, Flappet Lark, African Crake, Ahanta Francolin, Blue Bellied Roller, Black Bellied Bustard, Swallow Tailed Bee-eater, Long Crested Eagle, Red Necked Buzzard, Winchat, Flapped Lark, Rock Martin, Ovambo Sparrowhawk, Croaking Cisticola.

You will see Short Winged Cisticola, Lanner Falcon, Senegal Parrot, Brown Throated Wattle eye, Yellow Winged Pytilia, Barn Owl, African Barred Owlet, Blackcap Babbler, Brown Babbler, Double Spurred Francolin, Splendid Sunbird, Yellow Mantled Widowbird, Black Scimitarbill, Green Wood Hoopeo, Swallow Tailed Bee-eater, Vieillot`s Barbet, Tawny Flanked Prinia, Yellow Fronted Tinkerbird, Yellow Rumped Tinkerbird, African Paradise Flycatcher just to mention few of the guys around.

After an incredible morning at Shai Hills, you will scan Winneba Plains to add more interesting Birds to your list, before you make your way to Cape Coast.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Cape Coast. (Cape Coast).

Day 3 – 6........ Kakum NP (Canopy Walkway), Abrafo Forest, Antwikwaa Forest, Jawari Road, Brenu Beach Road and Surroundings.

After an early breakfast you will set off for the Worlds Famous Canopy Walkway at Kakum National Park which is the leading destination for bird watching in Ghana.

A wonderful World of amazing canopy species awaits you out there. You hope to get there early hours to see the first light and record the first species that will fry out.

You aim to get there early morning to spend the most critical bird viewing hours on the canopy walkway trying to see and photograph many mouth-watering species like Black Dwarf Hornbill, Violet Backed Hyliota, White Crested Hornbill, Congo Serpent Eagle, CassinS Hawk Eagle, Long Tailed Hawk, Brown Cheeked Hornbill, Red Cheeked Wattle Eye, Tit Hylia, African Piculet, Forest Wood Hoopoe, Black Casqued Hornbill, Red Tailed Bristlebill, Green Tailed Bristlebill, Western Bearded Greenbul, Brown and Puvels Illadopsis, Buff Throated, Johannas, Tiny and Olive Bellied Sunbird.

You will therefore see Usshers Flycatcher, Blue Cuckooshrike, Black and Rosy Bee-eater, Cassins and Willcockss Honeyguide, Sharps Apalis, Rufous Crowned Eremomerla, West African Batis ,Hairy Breasted Barbet, Finschs Flycatcher Thrush, Western Nicator, Black Bellied Seedcracker, Orange Weaver, VieillotS Weaver, Maxwells Black Weaver, Icterine Greenbul, Frasers and Akun Eagle Owl, Red Chested Goshawk, African Cuckoo Hawk, Red Thighed Sparrowhawk, Black and White Flycatcher, Blue Throated Roller, Yellow Billed Turaco, Little and Little Grey Greenbul, Cassins and Sabines Spinetail, White Spotted Flufftail, Marsh Tchagra, Red Winged Prinia, African Pygmy, Chocolate Backed, African Dwarf and Giant Kingfisher, Red Rumped Tinkerbird, Blue Breasted Kingfisher, Yellow Throated Tinkerbird.

You will also see Little Green, Fire Bellied and Buff Spotted Woodpecker, Pin Tailed Whydah, Red Headed, Red Vented, Crested and Blue Billed Malimbe, Preusss and Yellow Mantled Weaver, Red Tailed Greenbul, White Breasted, Grey Headed and Chestnut Breasted Nigrita, Peregrine Falcon, Piping Hornbill, Whistling Cisticola, Great Spotted, Black, Levaillants and African Emerald Cuckoo, Common Swift, Didric and Klaass Cuckoo, Malachite Kingfisher, Rock Pratincole, White Bibbed Swallow, White Headed Lapwing, Tambourine, Blue Headed Wood And Blue Spotted Wood Dove, African Green Pigeon, Guinea Turaco, Preusss Cliff Swallow, Compact Weaver, Sulphur Breasted Bush Shrike, Simple, Plain and Ansorges Greenbul, Palmnut and Hooded Vulture, African Harrier Hawk, Velvet Mantled Drongo, Grey Throated, Dusky Blue.

Not forgetting Frasers Forest and Red Bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Barn and Ethiopian Swallow, Green Headed Sunbird, Northern Fiscal, Lesser Striped Swallow, Green Crombec, KempS and Grey Longbill, Frsers Sunbird, Western Olive Sunbird, Swamp Greenbul, Western Bluebill, Black and White Mannikin, Orange Cheeked Waxbill, Black Winged Bishop, Copper Tailed Glossy Starling, Chestnut Winged Starling, Black Winged Oriole, Western Black Headed Oriole, Sooty Boubou, Sabines Puffback, Collared, Blue Throated Brown, Green and Little Green Sunbird, Forest Pendurine Tit.

As well as West African Wattle Eye, Shrike, Chestnut Capped and Blue Headed Crested Flycatcher, Yellow Browed and Olive Green Camaroptera, Honeyguide, Golden, Yellow Whiskered and Slender Billed Greenbul, Rufous Chested Swallow, Fanti And Square Tailed Sawwing, Melancoly Woodpecker, Brown Eared Woodpecker, Yellow Footed Honeyguide, Naked Faced, Yellow Billed and Yellow Spotted Barbet, Speckled Tingkerbird, Rufous Sided Broadbill, Red Billed Helmetshrike, Little Bee-Eater, Brown Nightjah, Black Throated Coucal, Blue Malkoha, Red Fronted Parrot, Lathams Forest Francolin, Ayress Hawk Eagle, European Honey Buzzard including others will be seen.

You will always break in the afternoon for lunch, and go back to the forest in the evening to see birds return from feeding grounds to roost as well as looking for Owls and Nightjars.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Cape Coast. (Cape Coast).

Day 7 – 8 ........ Ankasa Rain Forest.

The key target for the day is Nkulengu Rail, you will be going all out to locate this rare species in the early morning hours. You will be searching for many Upper Guinea Endemics such as Hartlaubs duck, White breasted guineafowl, Yellow casqued hornbill, African finfoot, Shining blue kingfisher, White bellied kingfisher, Cassins flycatcher, Red billed dwarf hornbill, Olive long tailed and Dusky long tailed cuckoo, Great blue turaco, White throated greenbul, Rufous winged illadopsis, Rufous sided broadbill, Shining drongo, Forest robin, Red fronted antpecker, Reichenbachs sunbird, White browed forest flycatcher, Red chested owlet, Common cuckoo, Grey throated rail, Orage weaver, Narinas trogon, Yellow billed turaco, White tailed alethe, Western black headed and Black winged oriole Swamp greenbul, Green headed sunbird.

Also see Golden greenbul, Yellow spotted barbet, Yellow throated tinkerbird, Red fronted parrot, Little and Little Grey Greenbul, Cassins and Sabines Spinetail, White Spotted Flufftail, Marsh Tchagra, Red Winged Prinia, African Pygmy, Chocolate Backed, White Bellied, African Dwarf and Giant Kingfishers will awaits you, Red rumped tinkerbird, Blue Breasted Kingfisher, Yellow Throated Tinkerbird, Little Green, Fire Bellied and Buff Spotted Woodpecker, Pin Tailed Whydah, Red Headed, Red Vented, Crested and Blue Billed Malimbe will be available, Preusss and Yellow Mantled Weaver, Red Tailed Greenbul, White Breasted, Grey Headed and Chestnut Breasted Nigrita, Peregrine Falcon, Piping Hornbill, Whistling Cisticola, Great Spotted, Black, Levaillants and African Emerald Cuckoo, Common Swift, White Rumped Swift, Didric and Klaass Cuckoo will be seen well.

You will always break in the afternoon for lunch, and go back to the forest in the evening to see birds return from feeding grounds to roost as well as looking for Owls and Nightjars.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Ankasa. (Ankasa).

Day 9 ….. Ankasa Forest – Brenu Beach Road - Cape Coast.

A final morning at Ankasa forest to search for Species we have missed or had a brief look and get better views and quality photos of species like Yellow billed turaco, Little and Little grey greenbul, Cassins and Sabines spinetail, White spotted flufftail, Marsh tchagra, Red winged prinia, African pygmy, Chocolate backed, African dwarf and Giant kingfisher, Red rumped tinkerbird, Blue breasted kingfisher, Yellow throated tinkerbird, Little green, Fire bellied and Buff spotted woodpecker, Pin tailed whydah, Red headed, Red vented, Crested and Blue billed malimbe, Preusss and Yellow mantled weaver, Red tailed greenbul, White breasted, Grey headed and Chestnut breasted nigrita, Peregrine falcon, Piping hornbill, Whistling cisticola, Great spotted, Black, Levaillants and African emerald cuckoo, Common swift, Didric and Klaas`s cuckoo, before we make our way to Cape coast, stopping at Brenu Beach Road to add some more birds to the list before we finally arrives at Hans Cottage.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Cape Coast. (Cape Coast).

Day 10 ....... Rock Pratincole Site – Picathartes Site.

The big day is today. You will be visiting the Yellow Headed Picathartes (White Necked Rockfowl) nesting site for the most sought-after bird in West Africa, please make sure that you have enough memory card.

You will check out of your hotel after an early breakfast, and drive to a remote village where the famous species and pre-historic bird (Yellow Headed Picathartes) will follow with much excitement.

It is hard to contain your excitement as these legendary prehistoric looking birds hop and jump on the rocks whilst preening themselves just meters from your eyes giving photographers among you a busy time of the day.

You will then continue your journey to Kumasi, after you have fully enjoyed the target bird for the day.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Kumasi. (Kumasi).

Day 11 ........ Opuro Forest – Mole National Park.

You will be scanning Opuro Forest for many species that you have missed out in other areas including Fiery Breasted Bushshrike, one of the most sought-after birds in Ghana, Superb Sunbird, Lesser Morehen, Grey Headed Bristlebill, Black Sparrowhawk, Northern Puffback, Hamerkop just to mention few.

You will then find our way to Ghana`s Premier Wildlife National Park, Mole National Park after an incredible morning for this extraordinal bird.

Species expected to see here includes Wire Tailed Swallow, Red Chested Swallow, African Moustached Warbler, Rufous Cisticola, Grey Rumped Swallow, Chestnut Backed Sparrow Lark, Red Billed Firefinch, White Headed Lapwing, White Helmetshrike, African Golden Oriole, Purple And Blue Bellied Roller, Lesser Blue Eared Starling, Gabar and Dark Chanting Goshawk, Purple Starling, Abyssinian Roller, Black Faced Quailfinch, Mosque Swallow, Yellow Billed Kite and more will be captured today.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Mole NP. (Mole NP).

Day 12 – 14 ........ Mole National Park.

After an early breakfast you set off for an interesting forest in a transitional zone between the Southern wetter forest and Northern drier woodland habitats where you will find some quality species.

Species possible to see and photograph here include Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Denhams Bustard, Forbess Plover, Four Banded Sandgrouse, Banded Snake Eagle, Brown Snake Eagle, Egyptian Vulture, Martial Eagle, White Headed Vulture, African Scops Owl, White Faced Owl, White Backed Vulture, Beaudouins Snake Eagle, Pearl Spotted Owlet, Violet Turaco, Oriole Warbler, Abyssinian Roller, Red Necked Falcon, Northern Carmine Bee-Eater, Marabou Stork, Saddle Billed Stork, Bruces Green Pigeon, Yellow Billed Stork, Rufous Rumped Lark, Wooly Necked Stork, White Fronted Black Chat, White Stork, African Hawk Eagle, African Cuckoo, Black Bellied Bustard, Common Redstart, Familia Chat, Yellow Crowned Gonolek.

You will see Bearded Barbet, Double Toothed Barbet, Wire Tailed Swallow, Grey Headed Kingfisher, Long Tailed Starling, African Fish Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Booted Eagle, Wahlbergs Eagle, African Blue Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Pels Fishing Owl, Northern Red Billed Hornbill, Peregrine Falcon, Red Shouldered Cuckooshrike, Rose Ringed Parakeet, Red Headed Lovebird, Brubru, Golden Tailed Woodpecker, Spotted Creeper, Fine Spotted Woodpecker, Black Billed Wood Dove, Stone Partridge, Double Spurred Francolin, White Throated Francolin, Fork Tailed Drongo, Yellow Billed Oxpecker, Eurasian Hoopoe, Black Scimitarbill, Beautiful Sunbird, Pygmy Sunbird, Scarlet Chested Sunbird, Red Billed, Black Faced and Black Bellied Firefinch, Lavender and Orange Cheeked Waxbill, Sulphur Breasted Bush Shrike, Blackcap Babbler, Brown Babbler.

Not forgetting White Crowned Robin Chat, Snowy Crowned Robin Chat, Black Crowned And White Backed Night Heron, Red Throated Bee-Eater, Bush Petronia, Yellow Fronted Canary, Little Weaver, Yellow Mantled Widowbird, White Breasted Cuckooshrike, Wilsons Indigobird, Exclamatory Paradise Whydah, Togo Paradise Whydah, Spur Winged Goose, Green Woodhoopoe, Swamp Flycatcher, Standard Winged and Freckled Nightjah, Grey Headed Bush Shrike, Long Tailed Nightjah, Chestnut Crowned Sparrow Weaver, Long Crested Eagle, African Cuckoo Hawk, Brown Backed Woodpecker, Black Headed Heron, African Darter, Grasshopper Buzzard, Bateleur, Barka Indigobird, Cabaniss Bunting.

Furthermore, Red Cheeked Cordonblue, Red Winged Pytilia, Yellow Winged Pytilia, Northern Red Bishop, Red Headed Weaver, Red Headed Quelea, Violet Backed Starling, Tropical Boubou, White Helmetshrike, Western Violet Backed Sunbird, Gambaga Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher, Yellow Breasted Apalis, Rufous Cisticola, Melodious Warbler, Whinchat, Yellow Throated Leaflove, Sun Lark, Grey And Cardinal Woodpecker, Greater and Lesser Hneyguide, Yellow Fronted Tinkerbird, Swallow Tailed Bee-Eater, Thick Billed Cuckoo, Helmeted Guineafowl including others will be captured here.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Mole NP. (Mole NP).

Day 15 ......... Egyptian Plover Site – Kumasi.

Another important day for us to see our second target species of the trip, a well-known habitat for much sought after Egyptian plover, which is a family by itself.
We shall depart from Mole to Kumasi today. Along the way we will stop a couple to add some special to our list before we get to Kumasi.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Kumasi. (Kumasi).

Day 16 ......... Bobiri Forest & Butterfly Sanctuary.

Bobiri is well-known of its significant forest species of birds like Grey Parrot, Narinas Trogon, Long Tailed Hawk, Dusky Tit, Black Dwarf Hornbill, Forest Wood Hoopoe, Fraser’s Eagle and African Wood Owl, Black Sparrowhawk, Black Coucal, Violet Backed Hyliota, Little Grey Flycatcher, Narrow Tailed Starling, Western Bronze Napped Pigeon, Olive Bellied Sunbird, Grey Longbill, Yellow Browed Camaroptera, Congo Serpent Eagle, European Honey Buzzard, Buff Spotted, Little Grey, Gabon, Cardinal and Fire Bellied Woodpeckers are available, African Emerald Cuckoo, Cassin’s Spinetail, Tambourine, Blue Headed, and Blue Spotted Wood Dove, African Green Pigeon, Peregrine Falcon, Red Billed Helmetshrike, Western Nicator.

You will also see Didric and Klaass Cuckoo, African Green Pigeon, Guinea Turaco, Preusss Cliff Swallow, Compact Weaver, Grosbeak Weaver, Red Vented, Blue Billed, Crested and Red headed malimbes will be present, Simple, Plain and Ansorges, White Throated, Red Tailed and Little Greenbul will entertain you, Palmnut Vulture, Hooded Vulture, African Harrier Hawk, Velvet Mantled Drongo, Grey Throated, Dusky Blue, Fraser`s Forest and Red Bellied Paradise Flycatchers awaits you, Barn and Ethiopian swallow, Green Headed Sunbird, African Cuckoo Hawk, Black Throated Coucal, Little grey flycatcher, Blue Cuckooshrike, Black Winged Oriole, Moustached Grass Warbler, Red Headed Quelea and more will be ticked at this site including large number of butterflies.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Kyebi. (Kyebi).

Day 17 & 18 …..... Atewa Range Forest Reserve – To Accra – To the Airport.

An early start as you head into Upper Guinea Rainforest habitat where so many of Ghana’s sought-after special species are found. This morning you hope to see Tit Hylia, Green Hylias, Magpie Mannakin, Narina’s Trogon, Red billed Dwarf and Black Dwarf Hornbills, African Grey and Red fronted Parrots, Purple-Throated Cuckooshrike, Blue Moustached Bee-eater, Black Bee-eater, Black Throated Coucal, Golden Backed Weaver, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Yellow Throated Cuckoo, Green Crombec, Kemps and Grey Longbill, Frsers Sunbird, Western Olive Sunbird, Swamp Greenbul, Western Bluebill, Black and White Mannikin, Orange Cheeked Waxbill, Black Winged Bishop, Copper Tailed Glossy Starling.

Moreover, Chestnut Winged Starling, Black Winged Oriole, Western Black Headed Oriole, Sooty Boubou, Sabines Puffback, Collared Sunbird, Blue Throated Brown Sunbird, Green Sunbird, Little Green Sunbird, Forest Pendurine Tit, West African Wattle eye, Shrike Flycatcher, Chesnut Capped Flycatcher, Yellow Browed and Olive Green Camaroptera, Blue Headed Crested Flycatcher, Yellow Billed Barbet, Grey Headed and Red Tailed Bristlebills and the much sought after Yellow Footed Honeyguide , Black Necked, Maxwells Black, Compact and Grosbeak Weavers will display for you, Whistling Cisticola, Black Crowned, Brown Crowned and Marsh Tchagra will be at your disposal, African Emerald Cuckoo, Klaas’s, Levaillants, and Didric Cuckoos, Red Bellied Paradise Flycatcher, White Throated Greenbul, Western Bluebill, Tessmann’s Flycatcher and if you are lucky Baumann’s Greenbul among others will be seen.

After an incredible final birding day at Atewa, you will head to the hotel to have a shower and enjoy some nice Meal, Bear and put all your list together before making your way to the Airport to say Goodbye to Ghana.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Kyebi. (Kyebi).

Tour Concludes.

Tour Price Includes…......

⦁ Airport Pick-Up and Drop-Off service (Kotoka International Airport, Terminal 3).
⦁ Assistance of a Professional Tour Guide.
⦁ Transport Services and Fuel for the Birding Trips.
⦁ Safari at Mole National Park.
⦁ A visit to the Kakum National Park (Canopy Walkway).
⦁ Visit to Ankasa, Atewa and Bobiri Forest.
⦁ Complimentary Water on the Safari.
⦁ Discover the Pre-Historic Yellow Headed Picathartes.
⦁ 18 Days Birdwatching Safari (Park Entrance Fees).
⦁ Meals (Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinner).
⦁ 17 Nights' Accommodation (Standard Share Rooms).
⦁ Guide Fees, Accommodations & Meals.
⦁ All Taxes.

Tour Price Excludes….......

⦁ Alcoholic Beverages and Soft Drinks.
⦁ All Airfares / Visas.
⦁ Internet, Laundry, Phone calls etc.
⦁ Personal Travel / Medical Insurance (We highly recommend you take Travel insurance in case of any emergency).
⦁ Gratuities (Tips).
⦁ Extra Plate of Meals, Snacks and Items for personal use

2 - 8 Participants (Twin Shared Rooms (Rooms With 2 Separate Beds).

USD $ 3,800 / Per Person.

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