Bird AlbumGhana · Ashanti Region
Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary
399 species and 23,397 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: January–March and November, with up to 197 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
Red-billed HelmetshrikePrionops caniceps
Velvet-mantled DrongoDicrurus modestus
African Green PigeonTreron calvus
Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
Collared SunbirdHedydipna collaris
Tambourine DoveTurtur tympanistria
Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidus
Black-winged OrioleOriolus nigripennis
Chestnut-capped FlycatcherErythrocercus mccallii
White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
Red-headed MalimbeMalimbus rubricollis
Olive SunbirdCyanomitra olivacea
Blue CuckooshrikeCyanograucalus azureus197 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 399 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Bonkro Village58 km312 species
- Kwabena Sam Forest65 km263 species
All 399 species recorded here
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii
- Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Red-fronted Parrot Poicephalus gulielmi
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Western Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus hartlaubi
- Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti
- Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
- West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- African Piculet Verreauxia africana
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
- Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Red-thighed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza erythropus
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Forest Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus castaneiceps
- Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Bristle-nosed Barbet Gymnobucco peli
- Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Latham's Francolin Peliperdix lathami
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Brown Nightjar Veles binotatus
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- Fraser's Eagle-Owl Ketupa poensis
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Black Spinetail Telacanthura melanopygia
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti
- Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Congo Serpent Eagle Circaetus spectabilis
- Tessmann's Flycatcher Fraseria tessmanni
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Akun Eagle-Owl Ketupa leucosticta
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Ahanta Spurfowl Pternistis ahantensis
- Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
- Kemp's Longbill Macrosphenus kempi
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Ussher's Flycatcher Artomyias ussheri
- Black Coucal Centropus grillii
- Forest Penduline Tit Anthoscopus flavifrons
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Platysteira blissetti
- Violet Turaco Tauraco violaceus
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Bates's Swift Apus batesi
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli
- Bearded Barbet Pogonornis dubius
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Yellow-bearded Greenbul Criniger olivaceus
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Brown-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes cylindricus
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Forest Scrub Robin Tychaedon leucosticta
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Compact Weaver Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- West African Batis Batis occulta
- Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Sandy Scops Owl Otus icterorhynchus
- Orange-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Dusky Crested Flycatcher Elminia nigromitrata
- Eastern Crested Guineafowl Guttera pucherani
- Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
- Double-spurred Spurfowl Pternistis bicalcaratus
- White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Common Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Black-faced Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata
- Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Black-backed Cisticola Cisticola eximius
- Pallid Swift Apus pallidus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
- Red-winged Prinia Prinia erythroptera
- Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens
- Quailfinch Ortygospiza atricollis
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- Olivaceous Flycatcher Fraseria olivascens
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Baumann's Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus baumanni
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba
- Blue-moustached Bee-eater Merops mentalis
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- African Barred Owlet Glaucidium capense
- Blackcap Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary?
January–March and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 197 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary?
399 species, from 23,397 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary in November?
The most recorded in November: Congo Pied Hornbill, Red-billed Helmetshrike, Velvet-mantled Drongo, African Green Pigeon and Red-eyed Dove.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.