Ghana 18th, 19th & 20th March 2016

Last few shots from the Ghana trip. We visited Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary on the 19th. Nice piece of rainforest but even during our short visit we were passed by several truckloads of local who were in the "sanctuary" to log under permit.
We managed to pick a few rainforest species but actually managed to miss or hear only several others.

I've attached a list of species that I personally saw during the trip. Other participants saw other species that I didn't encounter which is to be expected. I saw a total of 374 species of which 158 were lifers which wasn't too bad considering I've previously done The Gambia which isn't too far away from Ghana.

Helmeted Guineafowl Stone Partridge White-faced Whistling-Duck Spur-winged Goose African Pygmy-Goose Hartlaub's Duck White-throated Francolin Double-spurred Francolin Little Grebe Woolly-necked Stork Saddle-billed Stork Hadada Ibis Dwarf Bittern Black-crowned Night-Heron Striated Heron Squacco Heron Western Cattle Egret Grey Heron Black-headed Heron Purple Heron Great Egret Intermediate Egret Little Egret Western Reef Heron Hamerkop Reed Cormorant Black-shouldered Kite African Harrier-Hawk Palm-nut Vulture European Honey-buzzard African Cuckoo-Hawk Hooded Vulture White-backed Vulture White-headed Vulture Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle Brown Snake-Eagle Bateleur Wahlberg's Eagle Booted Eagle Lizard Buzzard Dark Chanting-Goshawk Red-chested Goshawk Shikra Western Marsh-Harrier Montagu's Harrier Yellow-billed Kite Grasshopper Buzzard Red-necked Buzzard Denham's Bustard White-spotted Flufftail	African Finfoot Black Crake African Swamphen Senegal Thick-knee Black-winged Stilt Spur-winged Plover Wattled Lapwing Grey Plover Ringed Plover White-fronted Plover Forbes's Plover Egyptian Plover Greater Painted-snipe African Jacana Bar-tailed Godwit Whimbrel Redshank Common Greenshank Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Little Stint Curlew Sandpiper Rock Pratincole Lesser Black-backed Gull Sandwich Tern Arctic Skua Four-banded Sandgrouse Rock Pigeon Speckled Pigeon Western Bronze-naped Pigeon African Mourning Dove Red-eyed Dove Vinaceous Dove Laughing Dove Black-billed Wood-Dove Blue-spotted Wood-Dove Tambourine Dove Blue-headed Wood Dove Namaqua Dove Bruce's Green Pigeon African Green-Pigeon Great Blue Turaco Guinea Turaco Yellow-billed Turaco Violet Turaco Western Plantain-eater Blue-headed Coucal
Senegal Coucal Blue Malkoha Levaillant's Cuckoo Great Spotted Cuckoo Klaas's Cuckoo Black Cuckoo Barn Owl Northern White-faced Owl Greyish Eagle Owl Akun Eagle-Owl Pearl-spotted Owlet Long-tailed Nightjar Standard-winged Nightjar Mottled Spinetail Black Spinetail Sabine's Spinetail Cassin's Spinetail Common Swift Little Swift White-rumped Swift Bates's Swift African Palm-Swift Narina Trogon Purple Roller Abyssinian Roller Blue-bellied Roller Blue-throated Roller Broad-billed Roller Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Grey-headed Kingfisher Blue-breasted Kingfisher Woodland Kingfisher African Pygmy Kingfisher White-bellied Kingfisher Malachite Kingfisher Shining-blue Kingfisher Giant Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher Blue-moustached Bee-eater Black Bee-eater Red-throated Bee-eater Little Bee-eater Swallow-tailed Bee-eater White-throated Bee-eater Green Bee-eater European Bee-eater Rosy Bee-eater Northern Carmine Bee-eater Forest Wood Hoopoe Green Woodhoopoe Black Scimitarbill	Northern Red-billed Hornbill African Pied Hornbill African Grey Hornbill Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Piping Hornbill Black-casqued Hornbill White-crested Hornbill Bristle-nosed Barbet Naked-faced Barbet Speckled Tinkerbird Red-rumped Tinkerbird Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Yellow-spotted Barbet Hairy-breasted Barbet Vieilott's Barbet Double-toothed Barbet Bearded Barbet Brown-backed Honeybird Lesser Honeyguide Fine-spotted Woodpecker Buff-spotted Woodpecker Cardinal Woodpecker Melancholy Woodpecker Fire-bellied Woodpecker African Grey Woodpecker Eurasian Kestrel Fox Kestrel Grey Kestrel African Hobby Lanner Falcon Rose-ringed Parakeet Grey Parrot Red-fronted Parrot Senegal Parrot Rufous-sided Broadbill Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Senegal Batis Fernando Po Batis Chestnut Wattle-eye Brown-throated Wattle-eye Red-cheeked Wattle-eye White Helmetshrike Red-billed Helmetshrike Orange-breasted Bushshrike Sabine's Puffback Northern Puffback Common Gonolek Brubru White-breasted Cuckooshrike
Blue Cuckooshrike Red-shouldered Cuckoo-shrike Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Yellow-billed Shrike Northern Fiscal African Golden Oriole Western Oriole Black-winged Oriole Square-tailed Drongo Shining Drongo Fork-tailed Drongo Velvet-mantled Drongo Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher African Paradise Flycatcher Piapiac Pied Crow White-necked Rockfowl African Blue-Flycatcher Dusky Crested Flycatcher White-shouldered Black-Tit Western Nicator Flappet Lark Sun Lark Common Bulbul Slender-billed Greenbul Little Greenbul Little Grey Greenbul Ansorge's Greenbul Plain Greenbul Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Golden Greenbul Honeyguide Greenbul Simple Greenbul Swamp Palm Bulbul Icterine Greenbul Western Bearded Greenbul Red-tailed Greenbul Yellow-bearded Greenbul Square-tailed Saw-wing Fanti Sawwing Sand Martin Barn Swallow Ethiopian Swallow Wire-tailed Swallow White-bibbed Swallow Pied-winged Swallow Lesser Striped Swallow Mosque Swallow Preuss's Cliff Swallow Moustached Grass Warbler Grey Longbill	Northern Crombec Lemon-bellied Crombec Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Green Hylia Tit Hylia Willow Warbler Wood Warbler Western Olivaceous Warbler Melodious Warbler Red-faced Cisticola Rock-loving Cisticola Winding Cisticola Short-winged Cisticola Zitting Cisticola Tawny-flanked Prinia Red-winged Warbler Yellow-breasted Apalis Sharpe's Apalis Oriole Warbler Green-backed Camaroptera Yellow-browed Camaroptera Senegal Eremomela Rufous-crowned Eremomela Puvel's Illadopsis Pale-breasted Illadopsis Blackcap Babbler Brown Babbler African Yellow White-eye Yellow-bellied Hyliota Violet-backed Hyliota Copper-tailed Starling Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling Splendid Glossy-Starling Purple Glossy-Starling Long-tailed Glossy-Starling Chestnut-bellied Starling Violet-backed Starling Chestnut-winged Starling Yellow-billed Oxpecker Finsch's Rufous Thrush African Thrush White-tailed Alethe Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Grey Tit-Flycatcher Northern Black-Flycatcher Pale Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher Swamp Flycatcher Cassin's Flycatcher Olivaceous Flycatcher
Little Grey Flycatcher Dusky-blue Flycatcher Ussher's Flycatcher Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat White-crowned Robin-Chat European Pied Flycatcher Whinchat Mocking Cliff Chat Fraser's Sunbird Mangrove Sunbird Western Violet-backed Sunbird Little Green Sunbird Grey-chinned Sunbird Collared Sunbird Pygmy Sunbird Reichenbach's Sunbird Green-headed Sunbird Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Olive Sunbird Buff-throated Sunbird Scarlet-chested Sunbird Olive-bellied Sunbird Tiny Sunbird Beautiful Sunbird Splendid Sunbird Johanna's Sunbird Superb Sunbird Copper Sunbird Grey-headed Sparrow Bush Petronia White-billed Buffalo-Weaver Thick-billed Weaver Little Weaver Black-necked Weaver Orange Weaver Village Weaver Vieillot's Black Weaver Black-headed Weaver Yellow-mantled Weaver Maxwell's Black Weaver Preuss's Weaver Red-vented Malimbe Blue-billed Malimbe Red-headed Malimbe Crested Malimbe Black-winged Red Bishop Yellow-mantled Widowbird White-breasted Nigrita Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Grey-headed Nigrita	Bar-breasted Firefinch Red-billed Firefinch Black-faced Firefinch Red-cheeked Cordonbleu Lavender Waxbill Orange-cheeked Waxbill Black-rumped Waxbill Orange-breasted Waxbill African Silverbill Bronze Mannikin Black-and-white Mannikin Magpie Mannikin Western Yellow Wagtail African Pied Wagtail Plain-backed Pipit Yellow-fronted Canary West African Seedeater Gosling's Bunting Brown-rumped Bunting

Blue Cuckoo-shrike

Preuss's Weaver

Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill

White-throated Bee-eater

Blue-moustached Bee-eater

Red-chested Goshawk

Second calendar dark morph Honey Buzzard

African Cuckoo Hawk

African Harrier Hawk and Red-necked Buzzard

Dark Chanting Goshawk

Northern White-faced Scops Owl

Shai Hills

Oliver photographing White-billed Buffalo Weavers.

Baobab Tree

Pristine front grounds of one of our hotels which included building rubble, foundations of an old building and the remains of a burnt litter - luxurious!!