Ghana
Rockfowl and upper Guinea endemics
Reservations and prepayment are required on all Ventures. Your place on this Venture will be reserved when your deposit of $300 has been received. Please make your check payable to VENTURES, Inc. and send it to this address or call the office with your VISA or MasterCard #.
Limited to 10 participants.
What We Hope To See
Our 16-day upper guinea rainforest and Savannah special tour takes us to the rarely visited unspoilt Ankasa rainforest near the boarder of the Ivory Coast. A beautiful rainforest protecting some wonderful quality species and the only rainforest in Ghana where the White-breasted Guineafowl is known to occur. With over 755 species of birds, Ghana is an ideal birdwatching destination.
Ghana covers a variety of habitats from coastal wetland lagoons and saltpans on the Gold Coast, to primary Guinea tropical rainforest where the world famous Kakum canopy walkway is found. We visit the walkway and get excellent views of canopy species difficult to see from the forest floor. One of the many highlights of this tour is undoubtedly the visit to a Yellow-headed Picathartes nesting site, getting a glimpse of this remarkable bird is an amazing feeling never forgotten. We also visit a site for Egyptian Plover. As we are dedicating the majority of our time to rainforest birding we are enhancing our chances of finding the more sought after secretive, upper guinea endemic species, which will lead to an extremely impressive quality bird tally, a tally we know will not disappoint!
Leaders: Simon Thompson and Mark Welford
Price: $TBA from Accra per person with single room supplement of $TBA
Price includes: All ground transportation, meals, service charges, entrance fees & gratuities (except for leader & driver/guides), information packet & bird check-list, leader/guide service throughout.
Not included: Airport Tax, alcoholic beverages, laundry, and other items of a personal nature .
Birds We Hope To See
Collared Pratincole Yellow-shouldered Widowbird, Black-collard Lovebird,
Congo Serpent Eagle, White-throated Blue Swallow, Forest Francolin, Greater
Painted Snipe, Yellow-headed Picathartes, Akun Eagle Owl, Pel’s Fishing Owl,
Standard-winged Nightjar, Egyptian Plover, Cassins Hawk Eagle, Chocolate-backed
Kingfisher, and Yellow-footed Honeyguide and many, many more.
TBA