Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - Birding holiday to Ghana
In February we had another great birding tour to Ghana. We had a very succesful tour in both the number and quality of bird species observed. We saw 358 bird species and heard further 14 species. We recorded 8 Upper Guinea Forest endemics, among them 3 wonderful White-necked Picathartes seen very well.
During the tour we observed 9 species of kingfisher including Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, 9 hornbills including Black Dwarf, Red-billed Dwarf and Yellow-casqued Hornbills, 8 bee-eaters including Black, Blue-headed and Swallow-tailed Bee-eaters, 10 barbets and tinkerbirds including Hairy-breasted Barbet, 16 sunbirds, plus Fox Kestrel, Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, White-headed Woodhoopoe, Fire-bellied Woodpecker, displaying Rufous-sided Broadbill, Forest Robin, White-tailed Alethe, Tit-hylia, Dusky Tit, Spotted Creeper, Sabine’s Puffback, Red-billed Helmet-shrike and Black-faced Firefinch.
Mammals seen included African Elephant, Black-and-white Colobus Monkey, Bushbuck, Kob, Waterbuck, Red-flanked Duiker, Common and Blotched Genet.
 Black-casqued Hornbill male and female in Kakum
 Grey-headed Kingfisher in Mole
 Pearl-spotted Owlet in Mole
 Oriole Warbler in Mole
 Immature Chocolate-backed Kingfisher in Atewa
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