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Trip	Ghana - Mega Birding Tour 2021 by Rockjumper Birding 5 \| Excellent 19 Reviews Trip Details Save Trip Customize

Duration	22 days
Price From	$ 6,495
Price Per Day	$ 295
Highlights	White-necked Rockfowl Egyptian Plover White-crested Tiger Heron Hartlaub’s Duck White-breasted Guineafowl Congo Serpent Eagle Long-tailed Hawk Rufous Fishing Owl Fraser’s Akun Eagle-Owl Forest & Ahanta Francolin White-spotted Flufftail Black-collared & Red-headed Lovebird Violet & Guinea Turaco Blue-headed Wood Dove Yellow-throated Cuckoo Black-throated Coucal Standard-winged and Brown Nightjar Black Spinetail Blue-bellied Roller White-bellied & Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Blue-headed Black & Rosy Bee-eater Black Dwarf Red-billed Dwarf Brown-cheeked Black-casqued & Yellow-casqued Hornbill African Piculet Yellow-spotted Yellow-billed & Bearded Barbet White-headed & Forest Wood Hoopoe Yellow-footed Thick-billed & Willcocks’s Honeyguide Cassin’s Honeybird Little Green Woodpecker Red-fronted Antpecker Rufous-sided Broadbill Fernando Po Batis Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Emin’s Shrike Red-billed Helmetshrike Many-colored Bushshrike Marsh Tchagra Sabine’s Puffback Blue Cuckooshrike Forest & Yellow Penduline Tit Green-tailed & Grey-headed Bristlebill Western Bearded Greenbul Preuss’s Cliff & White-bibbed Swallow Gambaga Tessmann’s Chestnut-capped Ussher’s Nimba & Little Grey Flycatcher Sharpe’s & Black-capped Apalis Tit-Hylia Rufous-crowned Eremomela Kemp’s Longbill Lemon-bellied Crombec Puvel’s Blackcap & Rufous-winged Illadopsis Capuchin Babbler and Blackcap Babbler Violet-backed Hyliota Copper-tailed Starling Finsch’s Rufous Thrush White-tailed Alethe White-crowned Robin-Chat Forest Scrub Robin White-crowned Cliff & White-fronted Black Chat Pygmy & Buff-throated Sunbird Oriole Warbler Maxwell’s Black Yellow-mantled & Preuss’s Weaver Black-bellied Seedcracker Western Bluebill Exclamatory Paradise Whydah
Trip Style	Small group tour
Lodging Level	Standard
Physical Level	3- Moderate
Travel Themes	Nature & Wildlife Birding National Parks Eco, Sustainable & Green Travel
Countries Visited	Ghana
Cities and Attractions	N/A
Flights & Transport	Ground transport included
Activities	Bird watching Educational/ learning Nature Wildlife viewing
Meals Included	N/A
Description	Our Ghana Mega Birding tour itinerary affords even more time in Ghana’s spectacular, ancient forests. We spend a full day birding in the gallery forest of Kalakpa which offers such star species as Puvel’s Illadopsis, Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Red-cheeked Wattle-eye, Capuchin Babbler and many more. In addition we spend time exploring the wonders of Kakum National Park, as well as remote forests in the Brong-Ahafo region where the much sought-after White-necked Rockfowl has recently been rediscovered. We have obtained special permission to visit these colonies located in community-managed forests and our stay will aid in the conservation of these endangered birds. Other forests near Kumasi and Atewa will also be explored. We also visit the remote forests of Ankasa in search of some very seldom seen birds including Akun Eagle-Owl, White-breasted Guineafowl, White-bellied Kingfisher and Brown Nightjar. On previous tours we have even found the near mythical Nkulengu Rail. Other forests will be visited in search of Rufous Fishing Owl and White-crested Tiger Heron. In a broad belt across the centre of Ghana lies an extensive tract of pristine, broad-leaved Guinea woodland and in this zone is our next base, the vast Mole National Park. The beautiful Oriole Warbler, Violet Turaco, several species of kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers (including Blue-bellied), barbets (including the huge Bearded), sunbirds, starlings and seedeaters will certainly create a riot of colour! We will not ignore the typical savanna mammals that occur here and Mole boasts a healthy population of particularly well-habituated and good-natured elephants. As we travel into the seldom visited far north of Ghana, these woodlands give way to dry Sahelian savanna, home to some very special birds including the sought-after Standard-winged Nightjar, one of the world’s most uniquely adorned and spectacular birds! Here also we will search for the splendid Egyptian Plover. We will spend time exploring this remote region with its fascinating cultures, as well as other sites ranging from coastal lagoons, extensive coastal grasslands, moist savannas and higher-altitude forests. This Ghana Mega Birding tour is designed for the ardent birder intent on trying to see some of the rarest birds in Africa!