Ghana · Eastern Region
Atewa Range – upland forest & ridge
365 species and 27,423 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March and November–December, with up to 223 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
Speckled TinkerbirdPogoniulus scolopaceus
Shining DrongoDicrurus atripennis
African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus
Black-capped ApalisApalis nigriceps
Blue MalkohaCeuthmochares aereus
Yellow-billed TuracoTauraco macrorhynchus
Blue-moustached Bee-eaterMerops mentalis
Green HyliaHylia prasina
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
Grey-headed NigritaNigrita canicapillus
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Atewa – farm scrub and degraded forest3 km337 species
- Shai Hills RR – Kandra Route77 km297 species
- Shai Hills Resource Reserve79 km449 species
All 365 species recorded here
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Blue-moustached Bee-eater Merops mentalis
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
- West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora
- Ussher's Flycatcher Artomyias ussheri
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Kemp's Longbill Macrosphenus kempi
- Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata
- Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata
- Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus
- Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- West African Batis Batis occulta
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Platysteira blissetti
- Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius
- Yellow-bearded Greenbul Criniger olivaceus
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
- Blackcap Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri
- Orange-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Red-fronted Parrot Poicephalus gulielmi
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Bristle-nosed Barbet Gymnobucco peli
- Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Nimba Flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae
- Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Forest Scrub Robin Tychaedon leucosticta
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Forest Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus castaneiceps
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor
- Tessmann's Flycatcher Fraseria tessmanni
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Forest Penduline Tit Anthoscopus flavifrons
- Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Congo Serpent Eagle Circaetus spectabilis
- Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens
- Red-fronted Antpecker Parmoptila rubrifrons
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
- Ahanta Spurfowl Pternistis ahantensis
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi
- Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Dusky Crested Flycatcher Elminia nigromitrata
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Latham's Francolin Peliperdix lathami
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Brown-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes cylindricus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- Brown-chested Alethe Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Fraser's Eagle-Owl Ketupa poensis
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Red-thighed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza erythropus
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei
- Akun Eagle-Owl Ketupa leucosticta
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Western Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus hartlaubi
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Black Spinetail Telacanthura melanopygia
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus
- Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus
- Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Bates's Swift Apus batesi
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus
- Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara
- Baumann's Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus baumanni
- Mangrove Sunbird Anthreptes gabonicus
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Olivaceous Flycatcher Fraseria olivascens
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Shelley's Eagle-Owl Ketupa shelleyi
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- African Broadbill Smithornis capensis
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Brown Nightjar Veles binotatus
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta
- Red-chested Swallow Hirundo lucida
- Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
- Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Bearded Barbet Pogonornis dubius
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Black-collared Lovebird Agapornis swindernianus
- White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Carmelite Sunbird Chalcomitra fuliginosa
- Black-headed Bee-eater Merops breweri
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Capuchin Babbler Turdoides atripennis
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- African Piculet Verreauxia africana
- White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Atewa Range – upland forest & ridge?
March and November–December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 223 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Atewa Range – upland forest & ridge?
365 species, from 27,423 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Atewa Range – upland forest & ridge in November?
The most recorded in November: Congo Pied Hornbill, Collared Sunbird, Speckled Tinkerbird, Shining Drongo and African Emerald Cuckoo.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.