West African endemic and the one who walks like an Egyptian and one more..
Project progress - Bird Families of the World 203/250
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These rocks at New Edubiase forest are the unique habitat for the endangered White-necked Rockfowl, which put Ghana on the birds families map.
201. Family #173: Rockfowl (Picathartidae) | White-necked Rockfowl
A great country to see some other western African birds and the second monotype target family of the trip, Egyptian Plover seen on White Volta river.
202. Family #40: Egyptian Plover (Pluvianidae) | Egyptian Plover
203. Family #193 Hylias (Hyliidae) | Green Hylia
| White-faced Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | @ on the way to Mole |
| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | @ Mole NP |
| White-throated Francolin | Francolinus albogularis | @ Mole NP (heard only) |
| Forest Francolin | Francolinus lathami | @ Opro aka Latham’s Francolin |
| Double-spurred Francolin | Francolinus bicalcaratus | @ around Cape Coast |
| Woolly-necked Stork | Ciconia episcopus | @ Mole NP |
| Long-tailed Cormorant | Phalacrocorax africanus | @ Hans Cottage Botel. aka Reed Cormorant |
| Hamerkop | Scopus umbretta | @ Opro |
| Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | @ Tema, Accra |
| Black-headed Heron | Ardea melanocephala | @ Opro |
| Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | @ Tema, Accra |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | @ Tema, Accra |
| Intermediate Egret | Mesophoyx intermedia | @ Tema, Accra |
| Western Reef-Heron | Egretta gularis | @ around Cape Coast |
| Western Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | @Accara & @ Hans Cottage Botel |
| Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | @ Tema, Accra |
| Hadada Ibis | Bostrychia hagedash | @ Mole NP |
| Black-shouldered Kite | Elanus caeruleus | @Accara |
| African Harrier-Hawk | Polyboroides typus | @ around Cape Coast |
| Palm-nut Vulture | Gypohierax angolensis | @ Mole NP |
| African Cuckoo-Hawk | Aviceda cuculoides | @ Kakum NP |
| Hooded Vulture | Necrosyrtes monachus | @ River Pra |
| White-backed Vulture | Gyps africanus | @ Mole NP |
| Bateleur | Terathopius ecaudatus | @ Mole NP |
| Lizard Buzzard | Kaupifalco monogrammicus | @Accara |
| Gabar Goshawk | Micronisus gabar | @ Mole NP |
| Grasshopper Buzzard | Butastur rufipennis | @ Mole NP |
| Red-chested Goshawk | Accipiter toussenelii | |
| Shikra | Accipiter badius | @ Mole NP |
| Black Goshawk | Accipiter melanoleucus | @ Kakum NP. aka Black (Great) Sparrowhawk |
| Long-tailed Hawk | Urotriorchis macrourus | @ New Edubiase Forst |
| Yellow-billed Kite | Milvus aegyptius | @Accara |
| Red-necked Buzzard | Buteo auguralis | @ around Cape Coast |
| Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | @ Tema, Accra |
| White-spotted Flufftail | Sarothrura pulchra | @ Kakum NP |
| Senegal Thick-knee | Burhinus senegalensis | @ around Cape Coast |
| Egyptian Plover | Pluvianus aegyptius | @ White Volta River |
| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | @ Tema, Accra |
| Spur-winged Plover | Vanellus spinosus | @ on the way to Mole |
| White-headed Lapwing | Vanellus albiceps | @ River Pra |
| Wattled Lapwing | Vanellus senegallus | @ around Cape Coast & Mole NP |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | @ Tema, Accra |
| Forbes’s Plover | Charadrius forbesi | @ Mole NP (heard only) |
| African Jacana | Actophilornis africanus | @ on the way to Mole |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | @ White Volta River |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | @ around Cape Coast |
| Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | @ Tema, Accra |
| Rock Pratincole | Glareola nuchalis | @ River Pra |
| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | while driving |
| Speckled Pigeon | Columba guinea | @ White Volta River |
| Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata | @ around Cape Coast |
| Vinaceous Dove | Streptopelia vinacea | @ Mole NP |
| Laughing Dove | Streptopelia senegalensis | @Accara |
| Black-billed Wood-Dove | Turtur abyssinicus | @ Mole NP |
| Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur afer | @Accara |
| Tambourine Dove | Turtur tympanistria | @ Kakum NP |
| Blue-headed Wood-Dove | Turtur brehmeri | @ ATEWA forest |
| Bruce’s Green-Pigeon | Treron waalia | @Mole NP |
| African Green-Pigeon | Treron calvus | @ Kakum NP |
| Guinea Turaco | Tauraco persa | @ Opro |
| Yellow-billed Turaco | Tauraco macrorhynchus | @ Opro |
| Violet Turaco | Musophaga violacea | @ Mole NP |
| Western Plantain-eater | Crinifer piscator | @ around Cape Coast |
| Levaillant’s Cuckoo | Clamator levaillantii | @ Mole NP & Atewa Forest |
| Thick-billed Cuckoo | Pachycoccyx audeberti | @ Mole NP |
| Red-chested Cuckoo | Cuculus solitarius | @ Mole NP |
| African Cuckoo | Cuculus gularis | @ Mole NP |
| Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx olivinus | @ New Edubiase Forest (heard only) |
| Klaas’s Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx klaas | @ Kakum NP |
| Dideric Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx caprius | @ around Cape Coast |
| Senegal Coucal | Centropus senegalensis | @ Kakum NP |
| African Scops-Owl | Otus senegalensis | @ Mole NP |
| Grayish Eagle-Owl | Bubo cinerascens | @ around Cape Coast |
| African Wood-Owl | Strix woodfordii | @ Kakum NP |
| Standard-winged Nightjar | Caprimulgus longipennis | @ Mole NP |
| Long-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus climacurus | @ Mole NP |
| Sabine’s Spinetail | Rhaphidura sabini | @ Kakum NP |
| Cassin’s Spinetail | Neafrapus cassini | @ Opro |
| Little Swift | Apus affinis | @Accara |
| African Palm-Swift | Cypsiurus parvus | @ Kakum NP |
| Narina Trogon | Apaloderma narina | @ Opro |
| Malachite Kingfisher | Corythornis cristatus | @ Mole NP |
| African Pygmy-Kingfisher | Ispidina picta | @ Kakum NP |
| Chocolate-backed Kingfisher | Halcyon badia | @ ATEWA forest |
| Gray-headed Kingfisher | Halcyon leucocephala | @ Mole NP |
| Woodland Kingfisher | Halcyon senegalensis | @Accara |
| Blue-breasted Kingfisher | Halcyon malimbica | @ Mole NP |
| Pied Kingfisher | Ceryle rudis | @ Hans Cottage Botel |
| Black Bee-eater | Merops gularis | @ Kakum NP |
| Blue-headed Bee-eater | Merops muelleri | @ Opro. split to Blue-Moustached BE (M. mentalis) |
| Red-throated Bee-eater | Merops bulocki | @ Mole NP |
| Little Bee-eater | Merops pusillus | @Accara |
| Swallow-tailed Bee-eater | Merops hirundineus | @Mole NP |
| White-throated Bee-eater | Merops albicollis | @Accara |
| Abyssinian Roller | Coracias abyssinicus | @ Opro |
| Blue-bellied Roller | Coracias cyanogaster | @Accara |
| Broad-billed Roller | Eurystomus glaucurus | @ Opro & Mole NP |
| Blue-throated Roller | Eurystomus gularis | @ Kakum NP |
| Green Woodhoopoe | Phoeniculus purpureus | @ Tema, Accra |
| Black Scimitar-bill | Rhinopomastus aterrimus | @ Mole NP |
| White-crested Hornbill | Tockus albocristatus | @ ATEWA forest |
| Northern Red-billed Hornbill | Tockus erythrorhynchus | @ Mole NP |
| African Pied Hornbill | Tockus fasciatus | @ around Cape Coast |
| African Gray Hornbill | Tockus nasutus | @ Mole NP nasutus |
| Piping Hornbill | Ceratogymna fistulator | @ Kakum NP. ‘Western Piping Hornbill’ fistulator |
| Naked-faced Barbet | Gymnobucco calvus | @ Kakum NP |
| Speckled Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus scolopaceus | @ Kakum NP |
| Red-rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus atroflavus | @ Kakum NP |
| Yellow-throated Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus subsulphureus | @ Kakum NP |
| Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird | Pogoniulus bilineatus | @ Kakum NP |
| Hairy-breasted Barbet | Tricholaema hirsuta | @ Kakum NP |
| Vieillot’s Barbet | Lybius vieilloti | @ around Cape Coast |
| Double-toothed Barbet | Lybius bidentatus | @ Opro |
| Bearded Barbet | Lybius dubius | @ Mole NP |
| Greater Honeyguide | Indicator indicator | @ Mole NP |
| Fine-spotted Woodpecker | Campethera punctuligera | @ Mole NP |
| Golden-tailed Woodpecker | Campethera abingoni | @ Mole NP |
| Little Green Woodpecker | Campethera maculosa | @ Kakum NP |
| Buff-spotted Woodpecker | Campethera nivosa | @ Opro |
| Cardinal Woodpecker | Dendropicos fuscescens | @ Mole NP |
| Melancholy Woodpecker | Dendropicos lugubris | @ Kakum NP |
| Fire-bellied Woodpecker | Dendropicos pyrrhogaster | @ New Edubiase Forest |
| African Gray Woodpecker | Dendropicos goertae | @ Mole NP |
| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | @Accara |
| Gray Kestrel | Falco ardosiaceus | @Accara |
| African Hobby | Falco cuvierii | @ around Cape Coast |
| Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | @ New Edubiase Forst |
| Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | @ Mole NP |
| Red-headed Lovebird | Agapornis pullarius | @ Mole NP |
| Red-fronted Parrot | Poicephalus gulielmi | @ New Edubiase Forest |
| Senegal Parrot | Poicephalus senegalus | @ on the way to Mole |
| Rufous-sided Broadbill | Smithornis rufolateralis | @ Kakum NP |
| Brown-throated Wattle-eye | Platysteira cyanea | @ around Cape Coast |
| Chestnut Wattle-eye | Platysteira castanea | @ Kakum NP – West African Wattle-eye Platysterira hormophora |
| Senegal Batis | Batis senegalensis | @ Mole NP |
| Red-billed Helmetshrike | Prionops caniceps | @ ATEWA forest |
| Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher | Bias musicus | @ Opro |
| Brubru | Nilaus afer | @ Mole NP |
| Northern Puffback | Dryoscopus gambensis | @ Mole NP |
| Large-billed Puffback | Dryoscopus sabini | @ Kakum NP. aka Sabine’s P. |
| Marsh Tchagra | Tchagra minutus | @ around Cape Coast |
| Black-crowned Tchagra | Tchagra senegalus | @ around Cape Coast |
| Tropical Boubou | Laniarius aethiopicus | @ around Cape Coast. *> [aethiopicus Group] (Ethiopian) |
| Common Gonolek | Laniarius barbarus | @ around Cape Coast. aka Yellow-crowned Gonolek |
| Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike | Telophorus sulfureopectus | @ around Cape Coast |
| Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike | Campephaga phoenicea | @ Mole NP |
| Purple-throated Cuckooshrike | Campephaga quiscalina | @ Kakum NP |
| Blue Cuckooshrike | Cyanograucalus azureus | @ New Edubiase Forest |
| Northern Fiscal | Lanius humeralis | @Accara |
| Yellow-billed Shrike | Corvinella corvina | @ Mole NP & Accra |
| Western Black-headed Oriole | Oriolus brachyrhynchus | @ Kakum NP. aka Western Oriole |
| Square-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus ludwigii | @ Mole NP |
| Shining Drongo | Dicrurus atripennis | @ATEWA forest |
| Fork-tailed Drongo | Dicrurus adsimilis | @ Mole NP |
| Velvet-mantled Drongo | Dicrurus modestus | @ Kakum NP |
| African Paradise-Flycatcher | Terpsiphone viridis | @ Kakum NP |
| Piapiac | Ptilostomus afer | @ Mole NP |
| Pied Crow | Corvus albus | @Accara |
| White-necked Rockfowl | Picathartes gymnocephalus | @ New Edubiase Forest |
| Yellow-spotted Nicator | Nicator chloris | @ ATEWA forest. aka Western Nicator |
| Rufous-rumped Lark | Pinarocorys erythropygia | @ Mole NP |
| Sun Lark | Galerida modesta | @ Mole NP |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | @ Opro |
| Ethiopian Swallow | Hirundo aethiopica | @ Kakum NP |
| White-throated Blue Swallow | Hirundo nigrita | @ River Pra |
| Lesser Striped-Swallow | Cecropis abyssinica | @ Kakum NP |
| Mosque Swallow | Cecropis senegalensis | @Accara |
| Preuss’s Swallow | Petrochelidon preussi | @ around Cape Coast. aka P. Cliff S. |
| Square-tailed Sawwing | Psalidoprocne nitens | @ Kakum NP |
| Fanti Sawwing | Psalidoprocne obscura | @ Kakum NP |
| African Blue-Flycatcher | Elminia longicauda | @ Mole NP |
| White-shouldered Black-Tit | Melaniparus guineensis | @ Mole NP |
| Slender-billed Greenbul | Stelgidillas gracilirostris | @ Kakum NP |
| Golden Greenbul | Calyptocichla serinus | @ Kakum NP |
| Gray-headed Bristlebill | Bleda canicapillus | @ Kakum NP |
| Simple Greenbul | Chlorocichla simplex | @ Kakum NP. aka Simple Leaflove |
| Yellow-throated Greenbul | Atimastillas flavicollis | @ Mole NP |
| Swamp Greenbul | Thescelocichla leucopleura | @ Kakum NP. aka Swamp Palm Bulbul |
| Western Bearded-Greenbul | Criniger barbatus | @ Kakum NP |
| Gray Greenbul | Eurillas gracilis | @ Kakum NP. aka Little Gray G. |
| Plain Greenbul | Eurillas curvirostris | @ Kakum NP |
| Yellow-whiskered Greenbul | Eurillas latirostris | @ Kakum NP |
| Little Greenbul | Eurillas virens | @ around Cape Coast |
| Leaf-love | Phyllastrephus scandens | @ Kakum NP. aka Red-tailed Leaf-Love (Greenbul) |
| Icterine Greenbul | Phyllastrephus icterinus | @ Kakum NP |
| Common Bulbul | Pycnonotus barbatus | @Accara |
| Green Crombec | Sylvietta virens | @ Kakum NP |
| Lemon-bellied Crombec | Sylvietta denti | @ Kakum NP |
| Moustached Grass-Warbler | Melocichla mentalis | @ Mole NP |
| Gray Longbill | Macrosphenus concolor | @ Kakum NP |
| Green Hylia | Hylia prasina | @ Kakum NP |
| Tit-hylia | Pholidornis rushiae | @ Kakum NP |
| Chestnut-capped Flycatcher | Erythrocercus mccallii | @ Kakum NP |
| Yellow-breasted Apalis | Apalis flavida | @ Mole NP |
| Sharpe’s Apalis | Apalis sharpii | @ Kakum NP |
| Green-backed Camaroptera | Camaroptera brachyura | @ Kakum NP |
| Yellow-browed Camaroptera | Camaroptera superciliaris | @ Kakum NP |
| Olive-green Camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota | @ New Edubiase Forest |
| Red-faced Cisticola | Cisticola erythrops | @ around Cape Coast |
| Singing Cisticola | Cisticola cantans | @ around Cape Coast |
| Whistling Cisticola | Cisticola lateralis | @ Kakum NP |
| Winding Cisticola | Cisticola galactotes | @ Tema, Accra |
| Siffling Cisticola | Cisticola brachypterus | @ around Cape Coast. aka Short-winged C. |
| Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | @ Tema, Accra |
| Oriole Warbler | Hypergerus atriceps | @ Mole NP |
| Red-winged Prinia | Prinia erythroptera | @ around Cape Coast. aka Red-Winged Warbler |
| Senegal Eremomela | Eremomela pusilla | @ Mole NP |
| Rufous-crowned Eremomela | Eremomela badiceps | @ Kakum NP |
| African Yellow White-eye | Zosterops senegalensis | @ Mole NP |
| Brown Illadopsis | Illadopsis fulvescens | @ Kakum NP (heard only) |
| Blackcap Babbler | Turdoides reinwardtii | @ Mole NP |
| Brown Babbler | Turdoides plebejus | @ Tema, Accra |
| Pale Flycatcher | Bradornis pallidus | @ Kakum NP |
| Northern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides | @ Mole NP |
| African Forest-Flycatcher | Fraseria ocreata | @ New Edubiase Forest. aka Fraser’s F.FC |
| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | @ around Cape Coast |
| Gambaga Flycatcher | Muscicapa gambagae | @Mole NP |
| Ussher’s Flycatcher | Muscicapa ussheri | @ Kakum NP |
| Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica | @ Mole NP |
| Dusky-blue Flycatcher | Muscicapa comitata | @ ATEWA forest |
| Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher | Myioparus griseigularis | @ Kakum NP |
| Gray Tit-Flycatcher | Myioparus plumbeus | @ Mole NP. aka Lead-colored Flycatcher |
| Fire-crested Alethe | Alethe diademata | @ Kakum NP (heard only) |
| Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | @ Mole NP |
| White-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha albicapilla | @ Mole NP |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | @ Mole NP |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | @ Mole NP |
| White-fronted Black-Chat | Myrmecocichla albifrons | @Mole NP |
| Finsch’s Flycatcher-Thrush | Neocossyphus finschii | @ Kakum NP (heard only) |
| Finsch’s Flycatcher-Thrush | Neocossyphus finschii | @ ATEWA forest (heard only) |
| White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | @ Kakum NP |
| African Thrush | Turdus pelios | @Accara |
| Bronze-tailed Glossy-Starling | Lamprotornis chalcurus | @ Mole NP |
| Splendid Glossy-Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | @ New Edubiase Forest |
| Purple Glossy-Starling | Lamprotornis purpureus | @Accara |
| Purple Glossy-Starling | Lamprotornis purpureus | @Mole NP |
| Long-tailed Glossy-Starling | Lamprotornis caudatus | @ Mole NP |
| Violet-backed Starling | Cinnyricinclus leucogaster | @ Mole NP |
| Chestnut-winged Starling | Onychognathus fulgidus | @ Kakum NP. aka Forest CWS |
| Scarlet-tufted Sunbird | Deleornis fraseri | @ Kakum NP. aka Fraser’s S. |
| Little Green Sunbird | Anthreptes seimundi | @ Kakum NP |
| Green Sunbird | Anthreptes rectirostris | @ Kakum NP |
| Collared Sunbird | Hedydipna collaris | @ Kakum NP |
| Green-headed Sunbird | Cyanomitra verticalis | @ Hans Cottage Botel |
| Scarlet-chested Sunbird | Chalcomitra senegalensis | @ Mole NP |
| Olive-bellied Sunbird | Cinnyris chloropygius | @ Kakum NP |
| Beautiful Sunbird | Cinnyris pulchellus | @ Mole NP |
| Splendid Sunbird | Cinnyris coccinigastrus | @ Opro |
| Superb Sunbird | Cinnyris superbus | |
| Copper Sunbird | Cinnyris cupreus | @ around Cape Coast |
| African Pied Wagtail | Motacilla aguimp | @Accara |
| Yellow-fronted Canary | Serinus mozambicus | @ Mole NP |
| Northern Gray-headed Sparrow | Passer griseus | @Accara |
| Bush Petronia | Petronia dentata | @ Mole NP |
| Gray’s Malimbe | Malimbus nitens | @ Kakum NP. aka Blue-billed M. |
| Crested Malimbe | Malimbus malimbicus | @ ATEWA forest |
| Red-headed Malimbe | Malimbus rubricollis | @ New Edubiase Forest |
| Little Weaver | Ploceus luteolus | @ Mole NP |
| Black-necked Weaver | Ploceus nigricollis | @ Opro |
| Orange Weaver | Ploceus aurantius | @ Hans Cottage Botel |
| Vieillot’s Weaver | Ploceus nigerrimus | @ around Cape Coast |
| Village Weaver | Ploceus cucullatus | @Accara |
| Yellow-mantled Weaver | Ploceus tricolor | @ Kakum NP |
| Maxwell’s Black Weaver | Ploceus albinucha | |
| Preuss’s Weaver | Ploceus preussi | @ Kakum NP. aka P. Golden-backed W. |
| Red-headed Quelea | Quelea erythrops | @ around Cape Coast |
| Northern Red Bishops | Euplectes franciscanus | @Accara. also called Orange.B or West Nile Red Bishop |
| Black-winged Bishop | Euplectes hordeaceus | @ around Cape Coast |
| Yellow-shouldered Widowbird | Euplectes macroura | @ around Cape Coast |
| Gray-headed Nigrita | Nigrita canicapillus | @ Kakum NP |
| Chestnut-breasted Nigrita | Nigrita bicolor | @ Kakum NP |
| White-breasted Nigrita | Nigrita fusconotus | @ Kakum NP |
| Lavender Waxbill | Estrilda caerulescens | @ Mole NP |
| Orange-cheeked Waxbill | Estrilda melpoda | @ around Cape Coast |
| Red-cheeked Cordonbleu | Uraeginthus bengalus | @ Mole NP |
| Red-winged Pytilia | Pytilia phoenicoptera | @ Mole NP |
| Red-billed Firefinch | Lagonosticta senegala | @ Mole NP |
| Bar-breasted Firefinch | Lagonosticta rufopicta | @ around Cape Coast |
| African Firefinch | Lagonosticta rubricata | @ Opro.aka Blue-billed FF |
| Bronze Mannikin | Spermestes cucullatus | @ around Cape Coast |
| Black-and-white Mannikin | Spermestes bicolor | @ Kakum NP |
| Magpie Mannikin | Spermestes fringilloides | @ Royal Bleumich Hotel |
| Pin-tailed Whydah | Vidua macroura | @ around Cape Coast |
