Ghana Birding Tours

20/09/2022

Ghana has some of the most avian rich, biodiverse rainforests and Savanna habitats in Africa that make Ghana a must visit location for any serious birding and wildlife enthusiast.

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Our Ghana Birding and Nature Tours are designed for keen birders wanting a productive bird list but who also would like to see the other wildlife Ghana has to offer. Primary focus is on birding; however, your local expert guide will also be looking for other wildlife for you to enjoy during your nature walks. Early starts and staying late for nocturnal species is again the norm and as our guides are experts in mammals and butterflies in addition to birds you will not be disappointed.

14/09/2022

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09/09/2022

Ankasa Reserve Lodge - Birding Tours

Customized tours to see target species or more relaxed bird watching

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Ankasa Reserve is Ghana’s most biodiverse rainforest, protecting the most sought-after avian species in West Africa and a must visit location for any birding and wildlife enthusiast. Our tours focus our time inside Ankasa Reserve in addition to the forest edge and surrounding farm bush. Customized tours for keen birders wanting a productive bird list in addition to more relaxed bird watchers looking to enjoy the best of Ankasa, our expert guides can adapt to you. Tours operate year-round and our primary focus is on birds with early starts, staying after dark for nocturnal species, ensuring we dedicate the most critical bird viewing hours in the field. Our expert local guides will also keep their eyes open for other wildlife for you to enjoy during our nature walks.

Ankasa Reserve Lodge are happy to be able to offer our guests exceptional experiences during their time here with us. Our wide portfolio of tours and

07/09/2022

Our Best of Ghana Birding Tours take you to the most important birding localities looking for the key species found here in Ghana.

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Primary focus is on birding, early starts and staying after sunset for the more difficult nocturnal species. If you are an avid birder, keep a world list and would like to see as many species and see them well during your time here with us, then our Best of Ghana Birding Tours are perfect for you. Choose from our wide selection of detailed itineraries ranging from 1 to 28 days in duration, alternatively allow us to design a customized tailor-made tour around your target species.

16/07/2022

Wonderful to see so many old and new faces yesterday. If you are at the Global Birdfair pop along to see us and hear about Ghana and our amazing new destination São Tomé and Príncipe. Hope to see you soon.

Nightingale Marquee stand number N1 to N3

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14/07/2022

Happy to announce we (Ashanti African Tours) will be exhibiting at the first Global Birdfair this weekend (Friday to Sunday). If you would like to come along and learn more about our Ghana Birding and Nature Tours and other destinations we offer, visit us on the Blue Sky Wildlife stand, Nightingale Marquee stand number N1 to N3.

Hope to see you there!

25/02/2022

Congratulations to our good friend Nik Borrow and also Ron Demey on the publication of the 2nd edition of Birds of Ghana. This fabulous field guide is a must go to for any birders and nature lovers visiting Ghana. Our birding and wildlife guides can’t wait to start using this edition during our Ghana tours. 👏🏼 🦅 ❤️🌳

24/12/2021

Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year from all of us here at Ashanti African Tours. Hopefully, we will be able to welcome you to West Africa in 2022 and show you the wonderful birds and nature of this beautiful part of the world.

Enjoy the holidays!

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17/12/2021

Ankasa Reserve Lodge is opening soon and will undoubtedly add something special to our time visiting Ankasa Reserve in Ghana.

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08/12/2021

An absolute MEGA find this morning by our leader Foster Frimpong on our private 18 Day Ghana Birding Tour. African Pitta was seen well by all of our group. Thank you Francesc Nitjans Jove for these wonderful photos.

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07/12/2021

A wonderful morning in Mole National Park, walking with elephants that culminated in our guide Paul Mensah finding one of Ghana’s most wanted birds the Rufous-rumped Lark. Our guests are having a wonderful time enjoying the flora and fauna of this spectacular location.

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06/12/2021

Our ongoing Ghana Wildlife Tour has just checked into the beautiful Zaina Lodge in Mole National Park. Ghana has some wonderful lodges and hotels and Zaina is a real gem in Northern Ghana. Our participants are so excited to explore and experience the wildlife of Mole whilst staying in the luxury of Zaina Lodge.

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02/12/2021

What a morning for our guide Paul Mensah and his group at Atewa Forest Range. To say the participants are happy would be an understatement as 2 of their main targets were seen just a few minutes apart when Paul spotted this awesome Long-tailed Pangolin and then the rarely seen Nimba Flycatcher. Not the best photo and video as Paul needs a phone upgrade ☹️ but the clients got great views and shots. Well done Paul and Buga sounds like the perfect trip.

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28/11/2021

28/11/2021

Ghana is an ideal destination for birding and photography tours. Our expert guides focus on finding you the birds for you to see and photograph so we take few photos ourselves. So we are always delighted when our participants kindly send us some of their shots to use. Thank you Leslie Clapp for asking us to post these wonderful shots of your recent tour.

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17/11/2021

Having such a great team of guides, experts in a multitude of areas, enables us to lead a wide variety of tours here in West Africa. I introduce to you our guide Ibrahim Entsie currently leading our 15 day Ghana Herping Tour. This beautiful female Forest Cobra was seen at Nyamebe Bepo Forest Reserve and is one of 12 snake species already seen in the first few days of this trip.

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14/11/2021

Great feedback from one of our recent Ghana Birding Tours. Thank you for choosing us for your Ghana birding tour Stefan and Carmen.

We just returned from a superb three weeks trip to Ghana which took us to almost all corners of the country, from coastal lagoons, Upper Guinea Rainforest and farm bush, to broad leaved guinea woodland and savannah plains in the north. The tour was organized to perfection by Ashanti African Tours (big hands for Janet!), and everything worked out as planned. Okay, apart from the delay of our outbound flight followed by an night odyssey via Istanbul but this is a different story... Our excellent guide Paul Mensah from the Ashanti team, took very good care of us, was great company and spared no pains to get us on the birds. Not to forget our Ashanti driver Prince (aka "Mambo"), who manouvered the Toyota Hiace around potholes and over muddy dirt roads as if it were a Land Cruiser in fact. As this was our first time birding in West Africa we had long list of target species, and a total of # 324 possible lifers. Paul did a great job and beyond our expectations we ended up with # 239 lifers. Leaving aside White-breasted Guineafowl and Western Wattled Cuckooshrike, from the Upper Guinea endemics we only dipped on Baumann's Greenbul. Though mid October is the end of the rainy saison and we did come across the expected downpours from time to time, mostly this did not impact the birding too much. Allowing for three full days in the generally wet Ankasa National Park turned out to be a wise decision, as there we were hit by the only almost non-productive rain day. See less

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08/11/2021

James Ntakor and his tour participants are out of the jungle at Ankasa Reserve and had a brilliant time over the past couple of days. An absolute mega sighting of Grey-throated Rail seen here in a poor video as the light not the best after a downpour. Rails were in abundance as they also enjoyed 5 Nkulengu Rails yesterday evening, all perched on the same branch.

Some other highlights include Akun Eagle Owl, Congo Serpent Eagle, Osprey, Yellow-bearded Greenbul, Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill, Yellow-casqued Hornbill, Spotted Honeyguide, Copper-tailed Starling, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Brown-chested Alethe, Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Pale-breasted Illadopsis, Forest Robin, Black-capped Apalis, Great Blue Turaco, African Pygmy Goose, Reichenbach and Brown Sunbirds Amongst many others...

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06/11/2021

A new day and another Ghana Birding and Nature tour. Led by our senior birding and wildlife tour leader James Ntakor for his participants Brian and Edward from the Uk. Our first update is a video of the Blackcap Illadopsis singing for over 10 minutes for our guests.

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04/11/2021

A busy week for our birding and wildlife tours as we have had 6 nature tours on the go. One of those is being led by our expert guides Victor Owusu and Jackson Owusu (not related 😊) who have been enjoying the Picathartes Lodge at Bonkro with their 6 participants. Not only did they enjoy several Yellow-headed Picathartes at close range, as they were staying at our new accommodation in the village closest to the forest, they were able to also add Akun and Frasers Eagle Owls to their day list. Comments from the group suggest the lodge is going to be very popular and the best thing is all proceeds go to the community encouraging them to protect the forest and it’s wildlife.

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25/10/2021

Ankasa Reserve has been fantastic even if a little wet for both of our private Birding and Nature tour groups. A big shout out to our driver Prince (AKA Mambo) for finding both groups a beautiful Tree Pangolin at our campsite inside the forest. Some of the highlights include Red-chested Owlet, Congo Serpent Eagle, Long-tailed Hawk, Nkulengu Rail, African Finfiot, Akun and Frasers Eagle Owl, Red-fronted Antpecker and Lesser Anomalure to mention but a few. A big thanks to our camp leader Francis Dabiagu and his team for looking after our groups so well. Good luck at the Picathartes site today Francis Ntakor and Paul Mensah, we look forward to an update. Also a shout out to Victor Owusu and Jackson Owusu who collect our latest group of birders at the airport later today.

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21/10/2021

Ghana is open for birding and over the next few months we have several private and scheduled small group tours operating. Two of our tours got underway a couple of days ago and they both have been seeing some excellent species, experiencing the wonderful birdlife of Ghana. Our senior guide Paul Mensah and his birding couple had a wonderful time on the canopy walkway yesterday and our other senior guide Francis Ntakor’s private client on a photography tour got some wonderful photos at Kakum National Park. We look forward to regular updates as both tours progress and with another 2 tours starting this weekend it will be wonderful to see our guides doing what they love most, showing our participants the best of Ghana.

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18/08/2021

Travelling in August for birding has its advantages as many species are in breeding plumage offering excellent photographic opportunities. However sometimes Mole National Park can still be a little wet in places as seen here. This has not distracted from our guide Victor Owusu’s group having a fantastic time during their 16 day Ghana birding and wildlife tour. Thank you so much Victor Owusu and our senior driver Prince Boamah for another fantastic trip.

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06/08/2021

A wonderful spot from our guide Paul Mensah this afternoon on their way to Ankasa Reserve. A stunning White-throated Blue Swallow which was a target for Wayne.

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05/08/2021

Our latest private Ghana Birding and Nature target species tour has just started. Our local guide Paul Mensah had a great find before breakfast a Frasers Eagle Owl at our hotel. Wayne is having a great time and we look forward to more updates.

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18/06/2021

Some of the Ashanti African Tours Team planting 2000 native tree species today at our project site near New Edubiase as part of the Green Ghana Programme. We decided to reject the exotic tree seedlings offered last week and wait for native tree seedlings to be available to plant today. Thank you Forestry Commission Ghana what a great initiative. 🌳 🌳 🌳

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18/06/2021

Some of the Ashanti African Tours Team planting 2000 native tree species today at our project site near New Edubiase as part of the Green Ghana Programme. We decided to reject the exotic tree seedlings offered last week and wait for native tree seedlings to be available to plant today. Thank you Forestry Commission Ghana what a great initiative. 🌳 🌳 🌳

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08/06/2021

Quite simply an incredible trip! What a list of species from our guide James Ntakor during his just completed tailored Ghana Birding target species trip. Our participants were speechless as to the amount of lifers they saw well on their difficult target list. Below are just a few photos of species seen from the final couple of days that include Nimba Flycatcher, Dorst’s Cisticola, Gambaga Flycatcher, Forbes’s Plover, Blue-moustached Bee-eater, Yellow Penduline Tit and Northern White-faced Owl. Thank you James and Prince for another great Ashanti trip.

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31/05/2021

What an increadible day! The first time we have stayed at our new accommodation close to the picathartes forest at Bonkro and what a day it was for our guide James Ntakor and participants. 13 Yellow-headed Picathartes were seen well and also a Tree Pangolin. They first bird was seen carrying a small dead snake to feed its chicks. Other highlights include; Tessmann's Flycatcher, Fraser's Eagle Owl (seen at day roost) Long-tailed Hawk, Violet-backed Hyliota, Black Spinetail, Red-chested Goshawk, Black Dwarf Hornbill, Red-billed Helmetshrike, Blue Cuckoo-shrike and many others.

James and his group are now off to Mole National Park

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