Bird AlbumGhana · Ashanti Region
Kwabena Sam Forest
263 species and 7,756 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March and November, with up to 132 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Red-fronted ParrotPoicephalus gulielmi
Congo Pied HornbillLophoceros fasciatus
Maxwell's Black WeaverPloceus albinucha
Red-headed MalimbeMalimbus rubricollis
African Green PigeonTreron calvus
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Velvet-mantled DrongoDicrurus modestus
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus
Yellow-mantled WeaverPloceus tricolor
Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidus
Ussher's FlycatcherArtomyias ussheri
Blue CuckooshrikeCyanograucalus azureus
Pied CrowCorvus albus124 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 263 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Bonkro Village6 km312 species
- Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary65 km399 species
- Antwikwaa – forest edge & farm scrub75 km337 species
All 263 species recorded here
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
- Yellow-mantled Weaver Ploceus tricolor
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Red-fronted Parrot Poicephalus gulielmi
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha
- Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Ussher's Flycatcher Artomyias ussheri
- Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
- Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
- Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
- Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
- Green Hylia Hylia prasina
- Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
- Tessmann's Flycatcher Fraseria tessmanni
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
- Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
- Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
- Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
- Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
- Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
- Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris
- Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
- Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
- Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
- Western Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus albocristatus
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Campephaga quiscalina
- Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
- White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps
- Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae
- Western Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus hartlaubi
- Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti
- Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
- Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
- Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri
- Fraser's Eagle-Owl Ketupa poensis
- Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Forest Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus castaneiceps
- Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris
- Congo Serpent Eagle Circaetus spectabilis
- Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
- Finsch's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina finschi
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
- Akun Eagle-Owl Ketupa leucosticta
- Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
- Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
- Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- White-headed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus bollei
- Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
- Kemp's Longbill Macrosphenus kempi
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Bristle-nosed Barbet Gymnobucco peli
- European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
- Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
- Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
- Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Ashy Flycatcher Fraseria caerulescens
- African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii
- Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata
- Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
- Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus
- Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
- Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
- Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
- Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata
- Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques
- Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
- Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
- African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
- Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
- Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
- White-necked Rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus
- Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea
- Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
- Black Spinetail Telacanthura melanopygia
- Whistling Cisticola Cisticola lateralis
- Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda
- Orange-breasted Forest Robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Green Twinspot Mandingoa nitidula
- Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
- Forest Penduline Tit Anthoscopus flavifrons
- White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis
- Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus
- Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
- Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Red-thighed Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza erythropus
- Ahanta Spurfowl Pternistis ahantensis
- West African Batis Batis occulta
- Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi
- Green-tailed Bristlebill Bleda eximius
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli
- Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Platysteira blissetti
- Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
- Magpie Mannikin Spermestes fringilloides
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- White-browed Forest Flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Brown Nightjar Veles binotatus
- Olivaceous Flycatcher Fraseria olivascens
- Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Lavender Waxbill Glaucestrilda caerulescens
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps
- Black-faced Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Sahel Bush Sparrow Gymnoris dentata
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus
- African Pied Wagtail Motacilla aguimp
- Cassin's Spinetail Neafrapus cassini
- Brown-chested Alethe Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Chestnut-bellied Starling Lamprotornis pulcher
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- African Piculet Verreauxia africana
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
- Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus
- Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus
- Orange Weaver Ploceus aurantius
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Latham's Francolin Peliperdix lathami
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Kwabena Sam Forest?
March and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 132 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Kwabena Sam Forest?
263 species, from 7,756 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Kwabena Sam Forest in November?
The most recorded in November: Red-fronted Parrot, Congo Pied Hornbill, Maxwell's Black Weaver, Red-headed Malimbe and African Green Pigeon.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.