Bird watching Ghana is a bird watchers paradise with approximately 800 of Africa's 1300 species of birds, a staggering figure considering Ghana occupies only 1.25% of Africa's total land mass. This tour will allow us to view birds like pied kingfishers, long-tailed cormorants, western reef egrets and great egrets, African spoonbill etc.at a Ramsar site, this is also a breeding site for Killitz's plover and collared pratincole. A trip to the a game reserve will allow us to see bird life like the African Hobby, Grey Kestrel, Stone Partridge, Green and Violet Turacos, Senegal Parrot, Grey Hornbill, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, Blue-breasted Roller, White-crowned Robin Chat and Croaking Cisticola. A visit to the Aburi Botanical Gardens, the centuries-old botanical garden with a wide variety of fauna and flora which include a wide array of birds like Black-and-White Mannakins, Splendid Glossy Starling, Chestnut-winged Starling, African Pied Wagtail, Speckled & Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird and the colourful Hairy-breasted Barbet in the tall palmtrees. There is also the possibility of viewing Collared, Green-headed, Tiny and the sparkling Buff-throated Sunbird, Green-backed Camaroptera. The Kakum National park. This forest provides the opportunity to see much of Ghana's indigenous plant life, as well as rare butterflies, birds and other forms of wildlife. There are 269 bird species whose presence have been confirmed at this park, plus an additional 56 species on the hypothetical list. Viewing amongst others will include Splendid Glossy Starling, Bates's Sunbird, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Vieillot's Black Weaver, Pale- fronted Negro-finch, Maxwell's Black Weaver, Superb Sunbird and Grey Longbill, Yellowbill, Speckled Tinkerbird, Fire-bellied Woodpecker, Little, Slender-billed and Simple Greenbull, Black-winged Oriole, Red-fronted Antpecker, Red-headed Malimbe and Sharpe's Apalis, Barn, Ethiopean and Mosque Swallows, and African Harrier-Hawks. The list of sites and birds to see is endless and the tours are unique. |
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