List of Birds of Ghana

List of Birds of Ghana

There is no destination in West Africa and in fact Africa as a whole that is like Ghana. Birding in Ghana presents you with the opportunity to see the Yellow-headed Picathartes or the White Necked Rock Fowl which is the most sought after birds in Africa.

The Forest Zone of Ghana is incredible from Kakum to Ankasa forest to New Edubiase forest, Sushen, Nsuta, Bobiri, Opuro, Atewa, and Kalakpa forest, Ghana has it all as the supply of forest jewels in this forest is unbeatable. The wonderful kakum canopy walkway remains the best place to see forest birds in this world. It brings you eyeball to eyeball with the canopy species

With over 755 species of birds, Ghana is an ideal bird-watching destination

Abdim’s stork
Abyssinian ground hornbill
Abyssinian roller
Afep pigeon
African barred owlet
African black duck
African blue flycatcher
African broadbill
African collared dove
African crake
African cuckoo
African cuckoo-hawk
African darter
African dwarf kingfisher
African emerald cuckoo
African finfoot
African firefinch
African fish eagle
African forest-flycatcher
African golden oriole
African gray hornbill
African gray woodpecker
African green pigeon
African harrier hawk
African hawk eagle
African hobby
African jacana
African openbill
African palm swift
African paradise flycatcher
African piculet
African pied hornbill
African pied wagtail
African pitta
African pygmy goose
African pygmy kingfisher
African reed warbler
African sacred ibis
African scops-owl
African shrike flycatcher
African silverbill
African skimmer
African spoonbill
African spotted creeper
African swamphen
African swift
African thrush
African wood-owl
African yellow white-eye
Ahanta francolin
Akun eagle-owl
Allen’s gallinule
Alpine swift
American golden-plover
Ansorge’s greenbul
Aquatic warbler
Arabian bustard
Arctic tern
Ashy flycatcher
Ayres’s hawk-eagle
Black crake
Baird’s sandpiper
Baka indigobird
Band snake-eagle
Banded martin
Band-rumped storm petrel
Bank swallow
Bar-breasted firefinch
Barn owl
Barn swallow
Bar-tailed godwit
Bat hawk
Bateleur
Bates’s sunbird
Bates’s swift
Baumann’s greenbul
Bearded barbet
Beaudouin’s snake-eagle
Beautiful sunbird
Bioko batis
Black bee-eater
Black coucal
Black cuckoo
Black dwarf hornbill
Black goshawk
Black heron
Black kite
Black noddy
Black scimitarbill
Black spinetail
Black stork
Black tern
Black-and-white casqued hornbill
Black-and-white mannikin
Black-and-white shrike-flycatcher
Black-backed cisticola
Black-bellied bustard
Black-bellied firefinch
Black-bellied plover
Black-bellied seed-cracker
Black-billed wood dove
Blackcap babbler
Blackcap illadopsis
Black-capped apalis
Black-capped rufous-warbler
Black-casqued hornbill
Black-collared lovebird
Black-crowned crane
Black-crowned night heron
Black-crowned tchagra
Black-faced firefinch
Black-headed bee-eater
Black-headed gull
Black-headed heron
Black-headed lapwing
Black-headed paradise-flycatcher
Black-headed weaver
Black-necked weaver
Black-rumped buttonquail
Black-rumped waxbill
Black-shouldered nightjar
Black-tailed godwit
Black-throated coucal
Black-winged bishop
Black-winged kite
Black-winged oriole
Black-winged pratincole
Black-winged stilt
Blue cuckoo-shrike
Blue malkoha
Blue moustached bee-eater
Blue quail
Blue rock-thrush
Blue-bellied roller
Blue-billed malimbe
Blue-breasted kingfisher
Blue-cheeked bee-eater
Blue-headed coucal
Blue-headed crested-flycatcher
Blue-headed wood dove
Blue-shouldered robin-chat
Blue-spotted wood dove
Bluethroat
Blue-throated brown-sunbird
Blue-throated roller
Booted eagle
Bridled tern
Bristle-nosed barbet
Broad-billed roller
Bronze mannikin
Bronze-napped pigeon
Bronze-tailed starling
Bronze-winged courser
Brown babbler
Brown booby
Brown illadopsis
Brown nightjar
Brown noddy
Brown snake-eagle
Brown-backed woodpecker
Brown-cheeked hornbill
Brown-chested alethe
Brown-chested lapwing
Brown-crowned tchagra
Brown-eared woodpecker
Brown-necked parrot
Brown-rumped bunting
Brown-throated wattle-eye
Brubru
Bruce’s green pigeon
Buff-breasted sandpiper
Buff-spotted flufftail
Buff-spotted woodpecker
Buff-throated sunbird
Bulwer’s petrel
Cabanis’s bunting
Cameroon indigobird
Cape gannet
Cape teal
Capuchin babbler
Cardinal woodpecker
Carmelite sunbird
Caspian tern
Cassin’s flycatcher
Cassin’s hawk eagle
Cassin’s honeyguide
Cassin’s spinetail
Cattle egret
Chestnut owlet
Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
Chestnut-bellied starling
Chestnut-breasted nigrita
Chestnut-capped flycatcher
Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver
Chestnut-winged starling
Chocolate-backed kingfisher
Collared pratincole
Collared sunbird
Common bulbul
Common buzzard
Common chiffchaff
Common cuckoo
Common grasshopper warbler
Common greenshank
Common house-martin
Common myna
Common nightingale
Common pochard
Common quail
Common redshank
Common redstart
Common sandpiper
Common shelduck
Common snipe
Common swift
Common tern
Common waxbill
Common-ringed plover
Compact weaver
Congo serpent-eagle
Copper sunbird
Copper-tailed starling
Corn crake
Cory’s shearwater
Cream-colored courser
Crested guineafowl
Crested malimbe
Croaking cisticola
Crowned eagle
Curlew sandpiper
Cut-throat
Damara tern
Dark-chanting goshawk
Denham’s bustard
Dideric cuckoo
Dorst’s cisticola
Double-spurred francolin
Double-toothed barbet
Dunlin
Dusky long-tailed cuckoo
Dusky tit
Dusky-blue flycatcher
Dusky-crested flycatcher
Dwarf bittern
Dybowsky’s twinspot
Eastern olivaceous warbler
Egyptian goose
Egyptian plover
Eleonora’s falcon
Emin’s shrike
Ethiopian swallow
Eurasian blackcap
Eurasian curlew
Eurasian golden oriole
Eurasian hobby
Eurasian hoopoe
Eurasian kestrel

Eurasian marsh-harrier
Eurasian moorhen
Eurasian nightjar
Eurasian oystercatcher
Eurasian reed warbler
Eurasian scops-owl
Eurasian wigeon
Eurasian wryneck
European bee-eater
European honey buzzard
European pied flycatcher
European roller
European storm petrel
European turtle dove
Exclamatory paradise-whydah
Familiar chat
Fanti drongo
Fanti sawwing
Ferruginous duck
Fiery-breasted bush-shrike
Fine-spotted woodpecker
Finsch’s flycatcher-thrush
Fire-bellied woodpecker
Flappet lark
Forbe’s plover
Forest penduline-tit
Forest robin
Forest scrub-robin
Forest wood hoopoe
Four-banded sandgrouse
Fox kestrel
Fraser’s eagle-owl
Fraser’s sunbird
Freckled nightjar
Fulvous whistling duck
Gaber goshawk
Gambaga flycatcher
Garden warbler
Garganey
Ghana cuckoo-shrike
Giant kingfisher
Glossy ibis
Glossy-backed drongo
Golden greenbul
Golden-breasted bunting
Golden-tailed woodpecker
Goliath heron
Gosling’s bunting
Grasshopper buzzard
Gray greenbul
Gray ground-thrush
Gray heron
Gray kestrel
Gray longbill
Gray parrot
Gray pratincole
Gray tit-flycatcher
Gray wagtail
Gray-headed bristlebill
Gray-headed bush-shrike
Gray-headed kingfisher
Gray-headed nigrita
Gray-headed oliveback
Gray-hooded gull
Grayish eagle-owl
Gray-rumped swallow
Gray-throated rail
Gray-throated tit-flycatcher
Great bittern
Great blue turaco
Great cormorant
Great egret
Great gray shrike
Great reed warbler
Great shearwater
Great skua
Great snipe
Great spotted cuckoo
Great white pelican
Greater blue-eared starling
Greater honeyguide
Greater painted snipe
Greater swamp warbler
Greater whitethroat
Green bee-eater
Green crombec
Green hylia
Green sandpiper
Green sunbird
Green wood hoopoe
Green-backed camaroptera
Green-backed twinspot
Green-backed woodpecker
Green-headed sunbird
Green-tailed bristlebill
Green-winged pytilia
Green-winged teal
Grosbeak weaver
Guinea turaco
Gull-billed tern
Hadada ibis
Hairy-breasted barbet
Hamerkop
Harlequin quail
Hartlaub’s duck
Helmeted guineafowl
Heuglin’s masked weaver
Heuglin’s wheatear
Honeyguide greenbul
Hooded vulture
Horus swift
House sparrow
Iberian chiffchaff
Icterine greenbul
Icterine warbler
Intermediate egret
Jack snipe
Jambandu indigobird
Johanna’s sunbird
Kemp’s longbill
Kentish plover
Kitilitz’s plover
Klaas’s cuckoo
Knob-billed duck
Lagden’s bush-shrike
Lanner falcon
Lappet-faced vulture
Latham’s francolin
Laughing dove
Lavender waxbill
Leach’s storm petrel
Leaf-love
Least honeyguide
Lemon dove
Lemon-bellied crombec
Lesser black-headed gull
Lesser blue-eared starling
Lesser crested tern
Lesser flamingo
Lesser honeyguide
Lesser jacana
Lesser kestrel
Lesser moorhen
Lesser striped swallow
Lesser yellowlegs
Levaillant’s cuckoo
Little bee-eater
Little bittern
Little crake
Little egret
Little flycatcher
Little grebe
Little green sunbird
Little green woodpecker
Little greenbul
Little gull
Little rush warbler
Little stint
Little swift
Little tern
Little weaver
Little-ringed plover
Lizard buzzard
Long-billed pipit
Long-crested eagle
Long-legged buzzard
Long-tailed cormorant
Long-tailed glossy-starling
Long-tailed hawk
Long-tailed jaeger
Long-tailed nightjar
Lowland akalat
Lowland sooty boubou
Lyre-tailed honeyguide
Magpie mannikin
Malachite kingfisher
Maned owl
Manx shearwater
Many-colored bush-shrike
Marabou stork
Marsh sandpiper
Marsh tchagra
Martial eagle
Maxwell’s black weaver
Melancholey woodpecker
Melodious warbler
Mocking cliff-chat
Montagu’s harrier
Mosque swallow
Mottled spinetail
Mottled swift
Mountain wagtail
Mourning collared dove
Mouse-brown sunbird
Moustached grass-warbler
Naked-faced barbet
Namaqua dove
Narina trogon
Narrow-tailed starling
Nimba flycatcher
Nkulengu rail
Northern black-flycatcher
Northern carmine bee-eater
Northern crombec
Northern fiscal
Northern gray-headed sparrow
Northern pintail
Northern puffback
Northern red bishop
Northern red-billed hornbill
Northern shoveler
Northern wheatear
Northern white-faced owl
Olivaceous flycatcher
Olive ibis
Olive long-tailed cuckoo
Olive sunbird
Olive-bellied sunbird
Olive-green camaroptera
Orange weaver
Orange-cheeked waxbill
Oriole warbler
Ortolan bunting
Osprey
Ovambo sparrow-hawk
Pacific golden-plover
Pale flycatcher
Pale-breasted illadopsis
Pale-fronted nigrita
Pallid harrier
Pallid swift
Palm-nut vulture
Parasitic jaeger
Parasitic weaver
Pearl-spotted-owlet
Pectoral sandpiper
Pel’s fishing owl
Peregrine falcon
Piapiac
Pied avocet
Pied crow
Pied cuckoo
Pied kingfisher
Pied-winged swallow
Pink-backed pelican
Pin-tailed whydah
Piping hornbill
Plain greenbul
Plain martin
Plain nightjar
Plain-backed pipit
Pomarine jaeger
Preuss’s swallow
Preuss’s weaver
Purple heron
Purple starling
Purple-throated cuckoo-shrike
Puvel’s illadopsis

Pygmy sunbird
Quail plover
Quail-finch
Quail-finch indigobird
Red knot
Red-billed dwarf hornbill
Red-billed firefinch
Red-billed helmet shrike
Red-billed quelea
Red-cheeked cordon-bleu
Red-cheeked wattle-eye
Red-chested cuckoo
Red-chested flufftail
Red-chested goshawk
Red-chested owlet
Red-chested swallow
Red-collared widowbird
Red-eyed dove
Red-faced cisticola
Red-faced pytilia
Red-footed falcon
Red-fronted ant-pecker
Red-fronted parrot
Red-headed lovebird
Red-headed malimbe
Red-headed quelea
Red-headed weaver
Red-necked buzzard
Red-necked falcon
Red-necked nightjar
Red-necked phalarope
Red-rumped swallow
Red-rumped tinkerbird
Red-shouldered cuckoo-shrike
Red-tailed bristlebill
Red-tailed greenbul
Red-thighed sparrow-hawk
Red-throated bee-eater
Red-throated pipit
Red-vented malimbe
Red-winged prinia
Red-winged pytilia
Reichenbach’s sunbird
Rock martin
Rock pigeon
Rock pratincole
Rock-loving cisticola
Roseate tern
Rose-ringed parakeet
Rosy bee-eater
Royal tern
Ruddy turnstone
Ruff
Rufous cisticola
Rufous fishing owl
Rufous flycatcher-thrush
Rufous-chested swallow
Rufous-crowned eremomela
Rufous-crowned roller
Rufous-rumped lark
Rufous-sided broadbill
Rufous-tailed rock-thrush
Rufous-tailed scrub-robin
Rufous-winged illadopsis
Rufous-winged illadopsis
Ruppell’s griffon
Sabine’s gull
Sabine’s puffback
Sabine’s spinetail
Saddle-billed stork
Sahel bush sparrow
Sahel paradise-whydah
Sanderling
Sandwich tern
Sandy scops-owl
Savi’s warbler
Scarlet-chested sunbird
Scissor-tailed kite
Secretary bird
Sedge warbler
Senegal batis
Senegal coucal
Senegal eremomela
Senegal lapwing
Senegal parrot
Senegal thick-knee
Sharpe’s apalis
Shelley’s eagle-owl
Shikra
Shinning blue kingfisher
Shinning drongo
Short-toed snake-eagle
Siffling cisticola
Simple greenbul
Singing bush-lark
Singing cisticola
Slender-billed greenbul
Slender-billed gull
Slender-billed weaver
Small buttonquail
Snowy-crowned robin-chat
Sooty shearwater
Sooty tern
Speckled pigeon
Speckled tinkerbird
Speckle-fronted weaver
Splendid starling
Splendid sunbird
Spot-breasted ibis
Spotted crake
Spotted flycatcher
Spotted greenbul
Spotted honeyguide
Spotted redshank
Spotted thick-knee
Spur-winged goose
Spur-winged lapwing
Squacco heron
Square-tailed sawwing
Standard-winged nightjar
Stone partridge
Striated heron
Striped crake
Striped kingfisher
Sulphur-breasted bush-shrike
Sun lark
Superb sunbird
Swallow-tailed bee-eater
Swamp flycatcher
Swamp greenbul
Swamp nightjar
Tambourine dove
Tawny eagle
Tawny pipit
Tawny-flanked prinia
Temmick’s courser
Temmnick’s stint
Terek sandpiper
Tessmann’s flycatcher
Thick-billed cuckoo
Thick-billed honeyguide
Three-banded plover
Tiny sunbird
Tit-hylia
Togo-paradise whydah
Tree pipit
Tropical boubou
Tufted duck
Ussher’s flycatcher
Variable sunbird
Verreaux’s eagle-owl
Vieillot’s barbet
Vieillot’s weaver
Village indigobird
Village weaver
Vinaceous dove
Violet turaco
Violet-backed hyliota
Violet-backed starling
Vitelline masked weaver
Wahlberg’s eagle
Wahlberg’s honeyguide
Water thick-knee
Wattled lapwing
Wattled starling
West African batis
West African seedeater
West African wattle-eye
Western bearded-greenbul
Western black-headed oriole
Western bluebill
Western bonelli’s warbler
Western nicator
Western olivaceous warbler
Western plantain-eater
Western reef heron
Western square-tailed drongo
Western violet-backed sunbird
Western yellow wagtail
Whimbrel
Whinchat
Whiskered tern
Whistling cisticola
White helmet shrike
White stork
White wagtail
White-backed night-heron
White-backed vulture
White-bellied bustard
White-bellied kingfisher
White-billed buffalo-weaver
White-breasted cuckoo-shrike
White-breasted guineafowl
White-breasted nigrita
White-browed forest flycatcher
White-crested bittern
White-crested hornbill
White-crowned robin-chat
White-faced whistling duck
White-fronted black chat
White-fronted plover
White-headed lapwing
White-headed vulture
White-headed wood hoopoe
White-necked rockfowl
White-rumped sandpiper
White-rumped seedeater
White-rumped swift
White-shouldered black-tit
White-spotted flufftail
White-tailed alethe
White-tailed ant-thrush
White-tailed tropicbird
White-throated bee-eater
White-throated blue swallow
White-throated francolin
White-throated greenbul
White-winged tern
Willcocks’s honeyguide
Willow warbler
Wilson’s indigobird
Wilson’s storm petrel
Winding cisticola
Wire-tailed swallow
Wood sandpiper
Wood warbler
Woodchat shrike
Woodland kingfisher
Woolly-necked stork
Yellow penduline-tit
Yellow-bearded greenbul
Yellow-bellied hyliota
Yellow-billed barbet
Yellow-billed ox-pecker
Yellow-billed shrike
Yellow-billed stork
Yellow-billed turaco
Yellow-billed wattle-eye
Yellow-breasted apalis
Yellow-browed camaroptera
Yellow-casqued hornbill
Yellow-crowned bishop
Yellow-crowned gonolek
Yellow-footed honeyguide
Yellow-fronted canary
Yellow-fronted tinkerbird
Yellow-mantled weaver
Yellow-mantled widowbird
Yellow-rumped tinkerbird
Yellow-spotted barbet
Yellow-throated cuckoo
Yellow-throated greenbul
Yellow-throated longclaw
Yellow-throated tinkerbird
Yellow-whiskered greenbul
Zebra waxbill
Zitting cisticola

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