Bird AlbumGhana · Central Region
Kakum NP – Canopy Walkway & vicinity
384 species and 17,388 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March and November, with up to 204 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
African Harrier-HawkPolyboroides typus
Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
Velvet-mantled DrongoDicrurus modestus
Red-headed MalimbeMalimbus rubricollis
Black-winged OrioleOriolus nigripennis
White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollis
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
African Green PigeonTreron calvus
Common SwiftApus apus
Palm-nut VultureGypohierax angolensis
Ussher's FlycatcherArtomyias ussheri
Black KiteMilvus migrans
Yellow-mantled WeaverPloceus tricolor
Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Kakum NP – Canopy3 km296 species
- Kakum National Park3 km402 species
- Ebekawopa (Abrafo) – 'farm scrub' habitat7 km331 species
- Ebekawopa (Abrafo) Forest Reserve8 km326 species
- Antwikwaa – forest edge & farm scrub9 km337 species
- Nsuta Forest32 km294 species
All 384 species recorded here
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Ussher's Flycatcher Artomyias ussheri
- Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
- Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
- Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
- Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Brown-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes cylindricus
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Red-fronted Parrot Poicephalus gulielmi
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora
- Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
- Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
- Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura
- Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris
- Brown Nightjar Veles binotatus
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
- Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus
- Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis
- Congo Serpent Eagle Circaetus spectabilis
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Bristle-nosed Barbet Gymnobucco peli
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Western Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus hartlaubi
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata
- Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Forest Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus castaneiceps
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Black Spinetail Telacanthura melanopygia
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- West African Batis Batis occulta
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Orange-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax
- Forest Penduline Tit Anthoscopus flavifrons
- Latham's Francolin Peliperdix lathami
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- Yellow-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna elata
- Fraser's Eagle-Owl Ketupa poensis
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- African Piculet Verreauxia africana
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Red-thighed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza erythropus
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Bates's Swift Apus batesi
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Akun Eagle-Owl Ketupa leucosticta
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Olivaceous Flycatcher Fraseria olivascens
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Kemp's Longbill Macrosphenus kempi
- Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti
- Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi
- Black-collared Lovebird Agapornis swindernianus
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Yellow-bearded Greenbul Criniger olivaceus
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Platysteira blissetti
- Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Tessmann's Flycatcher Fraseria tessmanni
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Rock Pratincole Glareola nuchalis
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata
- Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter
- Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
- Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps
- Spot-breasted Ibis Bostrychia rara
- Reichenbach's Sunbird Anabathmis reichenbachii
- Forest Scrub Robin Tychaedon leucosticta
- Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus
- Ahanta Spurfowl Pternistis ahantensis
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Red-fronted Antpecker Parmoptila rubrifrons
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Red-chested Swallow Hirundo lucida
- Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster
- Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Blackcap Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Violet Turaco Tauraco violaceus
- Wilson's Indigobird Vidua wilsoni
- Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini
- Mangrove Sunbird Anthreptes gabonicus
- Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Marsh Tchagra Bocagia minuta
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens
- Red-winged Prinia Prinia erythroptera
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- White-crested Tiger Heron Tigriornis leucolopha
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus
- African Finfoot Podica senegalensis
- Allen's Gallinule Porphyrio alleni
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Red-throated Rock Martin Ptyonoprogne rufigula
- African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Little Bittern Botaurus minutus
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- Carmelite Sunbird Chalcomitra fuliginosa
- Lagden's Bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster
- Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher
- Bearded Barbet Pogonornis dubius
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens
- Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Rufous Cisticola Cisticola rufus
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Double-spurred Spurfowl Pternistis bicalcaratus
- Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Brown-throated Martin Riparia paludicola
- Pallid Swift Apus pallidus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Kakum NP – Canopy Walkway & vicinity?
March and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 204 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Kakum NP – Canopy Walkway & vicinity?
384 species, from 17,388 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Kakum NP – Canopy Walkway & vicinity in November?
The most recorded in November: African Harrier-Hawk, Congo Pied Hornbill, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Red-headed Malimbe and Black-winged Oriole.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.