Guided Ghana Birding Tours, Nature & Wildlife Tours,
Culture & History Tours of Ghana and West Africa.

Tour Dates :

Will be determined at the time of booking tour.

Tour Category :

Birding and Wildlife Tour.

Tour Price (per Person) :

Will be determined at the time of booking tour.

Single Supplement :

Will be determined at the time of booking tour.

Tour Availability :

Book and Reserve a place for this tour.

Group Size :

2 to 10 or more.

Tour Pace & Walking :

Moderate, Rainforest, National Parks and Woodland Trails.

Habitats to Cover :

Lowland Rainforest, Broad Leaved Woodland, Wetlands and Coastal Lagoons, Sahel Savanna Grassland.

Climate expected :

Hot Weather, Dry in the North and Humid in the South.

Accommodations :

Standard, Clean and Comfortable Hotels.

Number of Species Expected :

500 or more species.

Photography Opportunity :

Excellent.

Detailed Description of Unique 19 Days Ghana, Togo, Benin Birding and Wildlife Tour.

Day 1 …….   Arrival in Accra Ghana.

Upon arrival, you will be met at Kotoka International Airport by our guide who will welcome you and transport you to a bird friend hotel for a good night rest and prepare for your 19 days Ghana-Togo-Benin Birds and Wildlife Excursion.

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

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

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 Muni Lagoon which contains residential and migratory shore birds including black heron, Kittlitz’s plover, collared pratincole, grey and western reef heron, northern pintail, glossy ibis, great, intermediate, and little egret, squacco heron, little bittern, purple swamphen, common ringed plover, African wattled lapwing, Senegal thick-knee, winding cisticola, zitting cisticola, spur-winged lapwing, greater swamp warbler, and white-faced whistling duck.

At the lagoon, you will also see common greenshank, common redshank, ruddy turnstone, reed cormorant, yellow wagtail, common sandpiper, yellow-throated longclaw, black and little tern, African spoonbill, common tern, western marsh harrier, royal tern, marsh and wood sandpiper, African jacana, little grebe, black-crowned night heron, black-winged stilt, cattle egret, pied and malachite kingfisher, village weaver, common bulbul, yellow-billed kite, pied crow, red knot, and grey plover.

Furthermore, sightings of curlew sandpiper, sanderling, black-tailed and bar-tailed godwit, pied avocet, green-backed and purple heron, black crake, common moorhen, Kentish plover, and more will be seen here as well. After the tour, you will then proceed to Muni Lagoon and Winniba plains to add some more species to your list before making your way to Cape Coast.

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

Day  3  &  4 …..   Kakum  National  Park  (Canopy Walkway) –  Abrafo Forest  and  Surroundings.

 

After an early breakfast, we will set off for the World`s 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, chesnut-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. (Cape Coast).

Day  5  &  6 ……..    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 NP. (Ankasa).

Day  7  ……..   Ankasa  Forest  –  Brenu  Beach  Road.

You will enjoy a final morning of birding at this wonderful location. You will be targeting species you may have missed or would like to get better quality images. After a full morning of birding, you will return to the lodge or camping site to arrange your bags and enjoy lunch before heading back towards Cape Coast.

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, 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.

Also sight 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 Klaas`s Cuckoo will be seen well, before you make your way to Cape coast stopping at Brenu Beach Road to add some more species to your list.

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

Day   8 …….      Kakum  National Park  –  Rock Pratincole  Site  –  Picathartes Site.

 

Today will be the big day of the trip. You will be visiting the 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 and set off a Remote Village between Cape Coast and Kumasi for this pre-historic bird.

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

Later, you will continue your journey to Kumasi after you enjoy your target bird.

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

Day  9 …….     Opuro  Forest   –    Mole  National  Park.

Today will be another important day for you as you will see your second target species in the trip. You will go to a well-known habitat for much sought after Egyptian plover which is a family by itself.

You will be scanning the Opuro Forest for many species that you missed out in other areas including superb sunbird, lesser morehen, grey-headed bristlebill, fiery-breasted bush-shrike, black sparrowhawk, northern puffback, hamerkop, blue-headed coucal, northern red bishop, little grey flycatcher, wood warbler, common chiffchaff, broad-billed roller, long-tailed hawk, lesser honeyguide, scarlet-chested sunbird, pied flycatcher, yellow-rumped tinkerbird, village indigobird, common house martin, Cassin’s spinetail, northern crombec, lizard buzzard, as well as black and white flycatcher.

You will also see African thrush, velvet-mantled drongo, white-spotted flufftail, black crake, village weaver, Vieillot’s weaver, copper sunbird, pin-tailed whydah, bearded barbet, black cuckoo, red-fronted parrot, African hobby, etc.

Moreover, garbar and dark chanting goshawk, purple starling, Abyssinian roller, black-faced quailfinch, mosque swallow, yellow-billed kite, and more will also be captured today.

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

Day  10  &  11 …….    Mole  National  Park.

After an early breakfast, you will set off for an interesting forest in a transitional zone between the Southern wetter forests and Northern drier woodland habitats where you will find some quality species. It will be one of the best birding sorties you may take in this tour but you will be happy with the walk when you get to see many regional specialties within close ranges.

Species possible to see and photograph here will include Abyssinian ground hornbill, Denham’s bustard, Forbes’s plover, four-banded sandgrouse, banded and brown snake eagle, Egyptian vulture, martial eagle, white-headed vulture, African Scops owl, and white-faced owl.

There will also be sightings of white-backed vulture, Beaudouin’s snake eagle, pearl-spotted owlet, violet turaco, oriole warbler, Abyssinian roller, red-necked falcon, northern carmine bee-eater, marabou stork, saddle-billed stork, Bruce’s green pigeon, yellow-billed stork, rufous-rumped lark, woolly-necked stork, white-fronted black chat, white stork, African hawk-eagle, African cuckoo, common redstart, familia chat, yellow-crowned gonolek, grey-headed kingfisher, long-tailed starling, African fish, tawny, booted, and Wahlberg’s eagle, broad-billed roller, African blue flycatcher, tree pipit, Pel’s fishing owl, red-shouldered cuckooshrike, rose-ringed parakeet, red-headed lovebird, brubru, golden-tailed woodpecker, spotted creeper, fine-spotted woodpecker, and black-billed wood dove.

Not forget to mention stone partridge, white-throated francolin, fork-tailed drongo, fox kestrel, yellow-billed oxpecker, Eurasian hoopoe, black scimitarbill, beautiful pygmy and scarlet-chested sunbird, red-billed, black-faced, and black-bellied firefinch, lavender waxbill, sulphur-breasted bush-shrike, blackcap and brown babbler, white and snowy-crowned robin chat, white-backed night heron, red-throated bee-eater, bush petronia, yellow-fronted canary, little weaver, yellow-mantled widowbird, white-breasted cuckooshrike, Wilson’s indigobird, exclamatory and togo paradise whydah, spur-winged goose, green wood hoopoe, swamp flycatcher, standard-winged and freckled nightjah, grey-headed bush shrike, chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver, and pernant winged nightjah too.

Furthermore, brown-backed woodpecker, black-headed heron, African darter, grasshopper buzzard, bateleur, barka indigobird, Cabanis’s bunting, red-cheeked cordon blue, red-winged and yellow-winged pytilia, red-headed weaver, red-headed quelea, tropical boubou, white helmetshrike, western violet-backed sunbird, Gambaga flycatcher, yellow-breasted apalis, willow and melodious warbler, whinchat, sun lark, grey and cardinal woodpecker, greater and lesser honeyguide, swallow-tailed bee-eater, thick-billed cuckoo, helmeted guineafowl, and many more including different kinds of monkeys, antelopes, elephant, kob, as well as warthogs and baboons will entertain you at the motel.

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

Day   12 …..  Mole  NP   –   Egyptian  Plover  Site   –   Kumasi.

You shall depart from Mole to Kumasi today after a morning birding to add up some more savannah species to your list before w set off to Kumasi.

You will then find your way to Egyptian plover site to see this special and elusive bird. Species expected to see here will include wire-tailed and 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, and lesser blue-eared starling.

Along the way we will stop a couple of times to add some special to our list before we get to Kumasi.

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

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, 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.

Including 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).

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, 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 will be seen.

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 we are lucky Baumann’s Greenbul among others will be seen.

Overnight at a Standard hotel in Atimpoku.

We will drive from Atimpoku to Keta Lagoon for morning birding, and later cross Ghana – Togo border to Lome.
Keta lagoon, is the largest lagoon in Ghana separated from the ocean by a long sand-bar.

This Ramsar site, is Ghana most important marine birding site, and its tiny Islands makes it a special attraction.
This site provides many Residential and Migratory Shore Birds as compared to any biding site in Ghana.

After an incredible moment at Keta Lagoon, we will cross the Ghana – Togo border to Lome.

Overnight at a Standard hotel in Lome Togo.

An outstanding forest reserve that provides you with incredible number of birds like Green Turaco, Violet Backed Turaco, Purple Roller, Compact Weaver, Bearded Barbet, Double Toothed Barbet, Yellow Fronted Thinkerbird, Broad Billed Roller, Red Billed Firefinch, Bar breasted Firefinch, Black Faced Firefinch, White Shoulded Black Tit, Yellow Mantled Widowbird, Togo Paradise Whydah, Vinaceous Dove, Red Eyed Dove, Pale Fronted Nigrita, Fork Tailed Drongo just to mention few of the birds around, as well as mammals that will wet the appetite.

After a great morning birding, we will find our way to Sokode.

Overnight at a Standard hotel in (Sokode).

Fazao-Malfakassa National Park protects a Forest and grassy hills along the Atacora escarpment on the western edge of the central part of Togo and contains a population of rarer birds such as Ayres’s Hawk Eagle, Cassin’s Hawk Eagle, Crested Guineafowl, Latham’s Forest Francolin, Double Spurred Francolin, Blue Quail, Green Turaco, Greater Blue Eared Starling, Lesser Blue Eared Starling, Bronze Winged Starling, Long Tailed Starling, Spotted Flycatcher, African Grey Parrot, Herons, Senegal Parrot, Hornbills, Swamp Greenbul, Senegal Eremomela, Firefinchs, Sunbirds and many others just to mention few.

Mammals will not be left out of the Adventure, Mammals to encounter includes Africa Elephants, Chimpanzees, Duikers, Mongoose and many more that will make your day enjoyable.

Overnight at a Standard hotel in Mango.

Keran National Park is dominated by open savannah woodlands, swamps, shrubs, riparian forests and woodlands growing on rocky outcrops.

The flood-plain of the Koumongou river forms the basis of the Park’s area, with good gallery forest along the river’s edge, where Narina’s Trogon and Oriole Warbler occurs.

There are some rocky areas and extensive open, sparsely vegetated, parts where spectacular species such as Saddle-billed Stork, Martial Eagle, Black Crowned Crane and Denham’s Bustard will be seen.

A wetland known as the Mare-aux-Lions attracts many mammals and birds, including migrants such as Black Stork and many more in the dry season.

There are many species of mammals in Keran National Park. Many of the animals congregate along the river banks during the dry season and these include Bay Duiker, African Elephants, Bushbuck, Sitatunga, Bongo, Red Flanked Duiker, Roan Antelope, Reedbuck, Hartebeest, Waterbuck and many others.

Many of the species of antelopes are threatened by increased poaching activity and encroachment on the forest reserve.

After and incredible day at Karen National Park, we will cross Togo – Benin border in the norther sector.

Overnight at a Standard hotel in (Pendjari NP).

Pendjari is a conservation stronghold in West Africa, which forms part of a critically important triad of national parks and reserves where 90% of the West African lion population remains.

Pendjari covers 4,800 km2 and is the last refuge for the region’s 1,700 elephants and 25% of the remaining 400 critically endangered West African lions.

We will have a Safari drive in this outstanding park and cover many of the incredible mammals like African Elephants, Lions, Antelopes of different kinds, Hippotamus and many more for the day.

Not forgetting the superb birds around.

Overnight at a Standard hotel in (Pendjari NP).

After breakfast we will depart Pendjari driving to the south of Benin, stopping along the way for lunch and finally arriving at Cotonou where you will pick up your flight back home.

Tour  Concludes.

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