Best Guided 10 Days Ghana Forest Birding Tours, Nature & Wildlife Tours,
Culture & History Tours of Ghana and West Africa.

Detailed description of 10 Days Ghana Birding & Wildlife Tour.

Day 1 …… Arrival in Accra Ghana.

AKWAABA – (Welcome) to Ghana.

Our guide will welcome you at Accra Kotoka International Airport and transfer you to bird friend hotel for good night rest and prepare for your 10 Days Birding and Wildlife Excursion in Ghana.

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

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

Your birding tour 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, chestnut owlet, and red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike.

You will also see whinchat, flappet lark, African crake, Ahanta francolin, European reed warbler, spotted flycatcher, rufous cisticola, vinaceous dove, West African wattle eye, Senegal batis, lanner falcon, Eurasian hobby, double-toothed barbet, yellow-fronted tinkerbird, blackcap babbler, snowy-crowned robin chat, splendid sunbird, yellow-throated leaflove, bearded barbet, African grey hornbill, mosque swallow, copper sunbird, Jacobin cuckoo, cardinal woodpecker, grey tit-flycatcher, African paradise flycatcher, shikra, and brown babbler.

Moreover, there will also be sights of white-throated bee-eater, grey-backed camaroptera, yellow-billed kite, black-winged kite, yellow-billed shrike, grey woodpecker, Vieillot’s barbet, Senegal coucal, pied wagtail, northern grey-headed sparrow, as well as other birds just to mention few.

Later, after an incredible morning at Shai Hills, you will shift attention to Winneba plains to add some more species to your list before making your way to Cape Coast.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Cape Coast.

Day 3 – 5..… Kakum National Park (Canopy walkway), Abrafo Forest, Atwikwaa Forest, Jawari Road and surroundings.

After an early breakfast, we will set off for the World famous canopy walkway at Kakum National Park which is the leading destination for birdwatching in Ghana.

A wonderful world of amazing canopy species will wait you out there. We hope to get there early hours to see the first light and record the first species that will fry out. Your day will bring out black dwarf hornbill, violet backed hyliota, white-crested hornbill, Congo serpent eagle, Cassin’s hawk-eagle, long-tailed hawk, brown-cheeked hornbill, and red-cheeked wattle-eye.

You can also expect to see tit hylia, African piculet, forest wood hoopoe, black-casqued hornbill, red-tailed bristlebill, green-tailed bristlebill, western bearded greenbul, brown illadopsis, Puvel’s illadopsis, buff-throated sunbird, Johanna’s and tiny sunbird, olive-bellied sunbird, Ussher’s flycatcher, blue cuckoo-shrike, black and rosy bee-eater, Cassin’s and Willcocks’s honeyguide, Sharpe’s apalis, rufous-crowned eremomela, Bioko Batis, hairy-breasted barbet, western nicator, black-bellied seed cracker, and orange weaver.

There will also be sightings of Vieillot’s weaver, Maxwell’s black weaver, icterine greenbul, Fraser’s eagle-owl, Akun eagle-owl, red-chested goshawk, African cuckoo, red-thighed sparrowhawk, black and white flycatcher, blue-throated roller, yellow-billed turaco, little and little grey greenbul, Cassin’s and Sabine’s spinetail, white-spotted flufftail, African pygmy ,chocolate-backed, African dwarf, and giant kingfisher, red-rumped tinkerbird, blue-breasted kingfisher, yellow-throated tinkerbird, little green, as well as fire bellied and buff-spotted woodpecker.

Also, not to forget other beautiful species such as pin-tailed whydah, red-headed, red-vented, crested, and blue-billed malimbe, Preuss’s and yellow-mantled weaver, red-tailed greenbul, white-breasted, grey-headed, and chestnut-breasted nigrita, peregrine falcon, piping hornbill, whistling cisticola, great spotted, black, Levaillant’s, and African emerald cuckoo, common swift, Diederik and Klaas’s cuckoo, malachite kingfisher, rock pratincole, white-bibbed swallow, white-headed lapwing, and tambourine, blue-headed wood, as well as blue-spotted wood dove.

Moreover, there will be Ethiopian swallow, green-headed sunbird, lesser striped swallow, green crombec, Kemp’s and grey longbill, swamp greenbul, western bluebill, copper-tailed glossy and chestnut -winged starling, black-winged and western black-headed oriole, blue-throated brown sunbird, green sunbird, chetsnut-capped flycatcher, blue-headed crested flycatcher, honeyguide, golden and yellow-whiskered greenbul, fanti and square-tailed sawwing, melancoly and brown-eared woodpecker, naked faced, yellow-billed, and yellow-spotted barbet, red-billed helmetshrike, brown nightjah, black-throated coucal, blue malkoha, red-fronted parrot, Latham’s forest francolin, Ayres’s hawk-eagle, European honey buzzard, and others as well.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Cape Coast.

Day 6 & 7…… Ankasa Rain Forest.

The key target for the day is the Nkulengu Rail and 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 Hartlaub’s duck, white-breasted guineafowl, yellow-casqued hornbill, African finfoot, shining blue and white-bellied kingfisher, Cassin’s 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, red-headed quelea, as well as armelite and Reichenbach’s sunbird.

You will also see white-browed forest flycatcher, red-chested owlet, common cuckoo, grey-throated rail, crested guineafowl, yellow-bearded greenbul, western bearded greenbul, African pygmy goose, blackcap illadopsis, Congo serpent eagle, European honey buzzard, red-billed helmetshrike, buff-spotted and fire-bellied woodpecker, African emerald cuckoo, Cassin’s spinetail, square-tailed saw-wing, white-tailed ant thrush, Finsch’s flycatcher thrush, western bronze-naped pigeon, tambourine and blue-headed wood dove, chocolate-backed kingfisher, dusky blue flycatcher, yellow-whiskered greenbul, Akun eagle-owl, and Fraser’s eagle-owl.

Furthermore, red-vented, blue-billed, and crested malimbe, orange weaver, Narina’s trogon, black bee-eater, red-bellied paradise flycatcher, Ayres’s hawk-eagle, red-thighed sparrowhawk, olive sunbird, Fraser’s sunbird, black cuckoo, yellow-billed turaco, white-tailed alethe, western black-headed and black-winged oriole, swamp greenbul, green-headed sunbird, golden greenbul, yellow-spotted barbet, yellow-throated tinkerbird, red-fronted parrot, including more incredible species will be scanned here as well.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Ankasa.

Day 8…… Rock Pratincole Site – Picathartes site – Kumasi.

Today will be the big day of the trip. You will be visiting the Yellow Headed Picathartes(White-Necked Rock-fowl) nesting site, so please make sure that you have enough memory cards.

You will check out of the hotel after an early breakfast to Twifo Praso to pick up important species “Rock Pratincole” to our list before we set off to a remote village between Cape Coast and Kumasi to see the special one Picathartes.

It could be hard to contain your excitement as these legendary prehistoric looking birds will hop and jump on the ropes while preening themselves just meters from your eyes, giving photographers among you a busy time for the day.

Later, we will continue our journey to Kumasi after enjoying the target bird.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Kumasi.

Day 9..… Bobiri Forest & Butterfly Sanctuary.

Bobiri is well-known of its significant forest species of birds like grey parrot, Narina’s 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, blue cuckooshrike, melancoly woodpecker, red-billed helmetshrike, copper-tailed starling, red-chested goshawk, bronze mannikin, black, white, and magpie mannikin, ashy flycatcher and collared sunbird.

You will also see buff-throated sunbird, western bronze-naped pigeon, olive-bellied sunbird, grey longbill, yellow-browed camaroptera, Congo serpent eagle, European honey buzzard, buff-spotted and fire-bellied woodpecker, African emerald cuckoo, Cassin’s spinetail, tambourine, blue-headed, and blue-spotted wood dove, African green pigeon, and more which you will discover at this site including large number of butterflies.

Overnight at a Standard Hotel in Kyebi.

Day 10…… Atewa Range Forest Reserve – To Accra – To The Airport.

An early start as we head back into the Upper Guinea Rainforest habitat where so many of Ghana’s sought after special species are found. This morning we 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.

You will also see Chestnut winged starling, Black winged oriole, Western black headed oriole, Sooty boubou, Sabine`s puffback, Collared sunbird, Blue throated brown sunbird, Green sunbird, Little green sunbird, Forest pendurine tit, West African wattle eye, Shrike, Chestnut capped flycatcher, Yellow browed and Olive green camaroptera, Blue headed Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-billed Barbet, Grey headed and Red tailed Bristlebills.

The much sought after Yellow footed Honeyguide , Black necked, Maxwells Black, Compact and Grosbeak Weavers, Whistling Cisticola, Black crowned and Marsh Tchagra, African Emerald cuckoo, Klaas’s, Levaillants , Yellow throated and Didric Cuckoo, Red bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Western Bluebill, Tessmann’s Flycatcher and if we are lucky Baumann’s Greenbul will be seen.

Tour Concludes.

Tour Price Includes…

⦁ Airport Pick-Up and Drop-Off service.  

⦁ Assistance of a Professional Tour Guide.  

⦁ Transport Services and Fuel for the Birding Trips.  

⦁ 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. 

 

⦁ 10 Days Birdwatching Safari (Park Entrance Fees). 

⦁ Meals (Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinner). 

 

⦁ 9 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.

Trip Price….

USD $ 2,500 / Per Person.

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