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Ghana with over 770 species of birds, Ghana is an ideal West African birdwatching destination as you cover all of the West African core habitats that include coastal lagoons and saltpans, moving inland you find excellent Upper Guinea Rainforest protected areas and also the broad leaved guinea woodland and Savannah plains in Northern Ghana.



Ghana has 12 of the 15 Upper Guinea Endemic bird species recorded is politically stable and has well developed infrastructure that is possibly the finest in West Africa.



The star attraction is the Yellow Headed Picathartes, Egyptian Plover and World famous Kakum National Park rainforest canopy walkway.

Some of the much sought after species found here include Pel’s Fishing, Akun and Frasers Eagle Owl’s, Brown and Standard Winged Nightjars, Black, Rosy, Northern Carmine and Blue Headed Bee-eaters, Red Cheeked Wattle Eye, Forbe’s Plover, Brown, Rufous Winged and Puvel’s Illadopsis, Long Tailed Hawk, Congo Serpent Eagle, Violet Backed Hyliota, Black Dwarf, Red Billed Dwarf, Yellow Casqued, Brown Cheeked and White Crested Hornbills and over 20 species of Greenbul just to mention a few of the gems in store for visitors to this exceptional birding destination. This page is sponsored by… Adventure Birding Tours.







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Ankasa Reserve Information Satellite View One of the Ghana’s most exciting birdwatching destinations.

Ankasa Protected Area comprises the continuous Nini-sahien National Park and Ankasa Resource Reserve, which together form a highly accessible and well preserved 509km2 chunk of wet evergreen Upper Guinea Rainforest.

Ankasa is one of the most biologically rich habitats in Africa and believed to protect Ghana’s only remaining population of Chimpanzee.

Forest Elephant, Bongo and many other mammal species can be found here. Star birds are definitely the Upper Guinea Endemic’s White Breasted Guineafowl, Yellow Bearded Greenbul, Green Tailed Bristlebil and Rufous Winged Illadopsis in addition to more gem’s like Africa’s rarest Kingfisher the White Bellied and Shining Blue, Yellow Casqued Hornbill, Great Blue Turaco, Hartlaubs Duck, African Finfoot, White Crested Tiger Heron and Dwarf Bittern are there to wet the appetite. Ankasa Reserve can be found 21km east of the border town with the Ivory Coast along the main Takoradi-Elubo road.






Bia National Park Wiki Satellite View Bia National Park is a Park in the Western Region of Ghana. It’s also a biosphere reserve with a 563 square kilometer resource reserve.

It has some of the Ghana’s last remnants of relatively untouched forest with its full diversity of wildlife some of the tallest trees left in the West Africa are found in this National Park.

There are 62 species of mammals, including 10 primate species known to live in the Park, and over 189 species of birds have been recorded, including the endangered White breasted Guinea fowl, Black Collared love bird, cassin’s hawk Eagle, Honey Guide Greenbul, Black headed Oriole, Brown and Puvel’s illadopsis finch’s flycatcher thrush.

Grey Crown Negrofinch, Western-Nicator, spotted Greenbul, Grey headed bristled Bill, Fire bellied wood pecker, melancholy wood pecker and many others can be found here.







Bobiri Forest Reserve Information Satellite View This small forest sanctuary protects almost 500 species of butterfly but is also a treasure trove of birds and one of the best locations to see the awesome Long Tailed Hawk much sought after by world birders.

Additional species include Lathams Francolin, Black Throated Coucal, Tit Hylia, Brown Illadopsis, Red-billed Helmetshrike, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher, Black and Red-chested Cuckoos, Western Nicator, Swamp Palm Greenbul, Black-and-White Flycatcher, Grey and Red-fronted Parrots, Finch’s Flycatcher-thrush Blue-throated Roller.

Olive-bellied and Green-headed Sunbirds, white crested and red billed dwarf hornbills in addition to Africa’s rarest the Black Dwarf Hornbill.

Bobiri is one of the only remaining Upper Guinea Rainforest’s close to the bustling city of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. There is basic accommodation here with no electricity and Bobiri is found 30km South of Kumasi on the main Accra-Kumasi road.







Bui National Park Information Satellite View The park stretches an area of 1821 square kilometers and protects Ghana’s largest population of hippopotamus.

A hydroelectric dam is currently being built at Bui and will eventually cover more than 50% of this exceptional wildlife habitat of guinea woodland and savannah. An abundance of mammal and bird species have been recorded that are now under threat due to the dam project.







Kakum National Park Information Satellite View Located 30km north of the seaside town of Cape Coast in Ghana’s Central Region, Kakum National Park and the adjacent Assin Attandaso Resource Reserve cover approximately 365 square kilometres of semi deciduous secondary Upper Guinea Rainforest with its main attraction being the world famous Canopy Walkway.

The canopy walkway offers birders an excellent opportunity to see the more difficult canopy dwelling species at close quarters.

Upper Guinea Endemics like Brown Cheeked Hornbill, Sharpe’s Apalis and Copper Tailed Glossy Starlings are common here in addition to Black and Yellow Casqued Hornbills, Yellow Billed Turaco, Yellow Throated Cuckoo, tiny sunbird, White-breasted Negrofinch, little green woodpecker, red headed malimbe’s, yellow mantled weaver, blue cuckoo-shrike and the legendary Congo Serpent Eagle.

Kakum forest trails offer more difficult to see understory species like White Throated, Western Bearded and Red Tailed Greenbuls, Fire-crested Alethe, Finch’s Flycatcherthrush, West African Forest Robin, Rufous Sided Broadbill, Red Billed Helmet-shrike, Red Tailed Bristlebill, Chocolate Backed Kingfisher and the Upper Guinea Endemic Green Tailed Bristlebil.

Owl’s and Nightjars are also common with Frasers Eagle and African Wood Owl’s in good numbers and much sought after Brown Nightjar. Kakum also protects over 60 mammal, reptile and amphibian species that include Forest Elephants, Long Tailed Pangolin and the legendary Bongo.





Mole National Park Wiki Satellite View Ghana’s premier wildlife viewing protected area covering 4847 square kilometres and protecting over 90 mammal and 330 bird species. The accommodation here is situated on an idyllic escarpment overlooking 2 watering holes where African Elephants, Kob, Waterbuck and Bushbuck regularly come to drink.

Mole’s habitat consists of broad leaved guinea woodland and savannah plains, excellent birdwatching can be enjoyed around the hotel with species such as Redthroated Bee-eater, Grey Woodpecker, Beautiful and Pygmy Sunbirds, Orange-cheeked, Lavender and Black-rumped Waxbills, Pin-tailed Whydah, Northern Puffback, Northern Crombec, Tawny-flanked Prinia, Bush Petronia and Senegal Batis.

Walking Safari’s offer the chance of seeing quality species like Pel’s Fishing Owl, Standard Winged Nightjar, Spotted Creeper, White Fronted Black Chat, Forbes Plover, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Blue Bellied Roller, Helmeted Guineafowl, Hadada Ibis, Woolly-necked and Saddled Billed Storks, Grey and Black-headed Herons, Senegal Thick-knee and Greater-painted Snipe.

Passing to an area of riverine forest, one should locate Red-winged Pytilia, Rufous Cisticola, Giant Kingfisher, African Blue Flycatcher, Common Gonolek, Snowy-crowned Robin Chat, African Paradise Flycatcher, Pale, Swamp and Lead-colored Flycatchers, Oriole Warbler & African Dwarf Kingfisher. Mole is approximately a 6 hour drive from Kumasi without stops with the final 86km being rough dirt road.





Shai Hills Reserve Wiki Satellite View Shai Hills reserve is the closest wildlife protected area to Accra with a savannah grassland habitat, large rock formations and caves. The rock formations harbour good numbers of White Crowned Cliff Chat and Rock Martins in addition to Rock Loving Cisticolas.

Green and Violet Turacos are common as are Puvels Illadopsis, Blue Bellied, Broad billed and Rufous Crowned Rollers, Senegal Parrot, Red Headed Lovebirds, Black Cap and Brown Babblers, Stone Partridge, Grey Hornbill, Fork-tailed Drongo, White-crowned Robin Chat, Croaking Cisticola, Grey Kestrel, Rosy and Swallow-tailed Bee-eaters and Rose-ringed Parakeets. African Hobby is regularly seen and large numbers of Olive Baboons greet you on your entrance to the park.






Your holiday with Adventure Birding Tours will also allow you to visit Atewa Range Forest Reserve which is a home to many species of birds like Blue moustached bee-eater, Red chested cuckoo, Yellow throated cuckoo, Dusky crested frycatcher, Narinas trogon, Yellow billed turaco, Copper tailed starling, Chestnut winged starling, Green twinspot, Red fronted antpecker, Yellow spotted barbet, Grosbeak weaver, Chocolate backed kingfisher, Crowned eagle, Brown cheeked hornbill, Olive long tailed, Black, African emerald, Klaass and Didric cuckoo, Green tailed, Red tailed and Grey headed bristlebill, Baumans.

Also see Ansorges, Litle grey, Western bearded, Golden, Slender billed, Little and Yellow bearded greenbul, Western nicator, Swamp greenbul, Common bulbul, Puvels, Blackcap, Brown, Pale and Rufous winged illadopsis, Blue throated brown, Little green, Buff throated, Collared, Splendid, Superb, Batess, Olive,Olive bellied, Frasers and Green sunbird, Long tailed hawk, Congo serpent eagle, African cuckoo hawk, Yellow footed honeyguide, Black bellied seedcracker, Red cheeked wattle and Chestnut wattle eye including more will be seen.






Feather Scanning Kalakpa Forest situated in the Volta Region of Ghana and contains Capuchin babbler, Striped kingfisher, Moustached grass warbler, Thick billed cuckoo, White throated francolin, Brown necked parrot, Red cheeked wattle eye, Baumans greenbul, White throated greenbul, Purple roller, Splendid sunbird, Black shoulded nightjah.






Keta lagoon is the largest lagoon in Ghana, separated from the Ocean by a long sandbar. This Ramsar site is Ghanas most important marine birding site where different kinds of Residential and migratory shore birds are seen such as Kittlitzs plover, African spoonebill, Glossy ibis, Purple swamphen, Black heron, Squacco heron, Purple heron, Green backed heron, Grey heron, Great egret, Intermediate egret, Cattle eagret, Little egret, African wattled lapwing, Spur winged lapwing, Hwimbrel, Royal tern, Common tern, Little tern, Sandwich tern, Black tern, Gull billed tern, Zitting cisticola.

Including Winding cisticola, Red knot, Ruff, Sanderling, Ruddy turnstone, Common redshank, Common Greenshank, Yellow crowned bishop, Yellow throated longclow, Black winged stilt, Pied avocet, Western marsh harrier, Yellow billed kite, Common sandpiper, Wood sandpiper, Marsh sandpiper, Green sandpiper, Collared pratincole, Eurasian oystercatcher, America golden plover, Long tailed cormorant, Little stint, Kentish plover including others will be seen here as well as exploring other centers for other great species.




Adventure Birding Tours is looking forward to showcase the beautiful Birds and Mammals of Ghana in their Natural World to you.