Ghana · Northern Region
Mole NP – Samole Loop & waterhole
330 species and 19,465 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: February–March and November, with up to 195 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Red-throated Bee-eaterMerops bulocki
Sahel Bush SparrowGymnoris dentata
Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
Long-tailed Glossy StarlingLamprotornis caudatus
Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash
HamerkopScopus umbretta
Vinaceous DoveStreptopelia vinacea
Red-billed FirefinchLagonosticta senegala
Helmeted GuineafowlNumida meleagris
Hooded VultureNecrosyrtes monachus
Red-shouldered CuckooshrikeCampephaga phoenicea
Black-billed Wood DoveTurtur abyssinicus
Red-eyed DoveStreptopelia semitorquata
African Grey HornbillLophoceros nasutus191 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 330 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Mole NP – Mole Hotel & waterhole1 km384 species
- Mole NP – Samole loop4 km309 species
- Mole NP – Asibey Loop/Haraba track vicinity11 km290 species
- Mole NP17 km445 species
All 330 species recorded here
- Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki
- Hadada Ibis Bostrychia hagedash
- Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus
- Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
- Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala
- Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus
- Yellow-crowned Gonolek Laniarius barbarus
- Beautiful Sunbird Cinnyris pulchellus
- Sahel Bush Sparrow Gymnoris dentata
- Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus
- Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus
- Hamerkop Scopus umbretta
- Northern Puffback Dryoscopus gambensis
- European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca
- Swamp Flycatcher Muscicapa aquatica
- African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
- White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
- Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides
- Grey-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala
- Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus bengalus
- Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus
- Double-spurred Spurfowl Pternistis bicalcaratus
- African Grey Hornbill Lophoceros nasutus
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus
- Blue-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon malimbica
- Little Weaver Ploceus luteolus
- Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla
- African Jacana Actophilornis africanus
- Violet Turaco Tauraco violaceus
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Lavender Waxbill Glaucestrilda caerulescens
- African Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus
- Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps
- Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum
- Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
- Yellow-breasted Apalis Apalis flavida
- Senegal Thick-knee Burhinus senegalensis
- Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
- Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus
- Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
- African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis
- Malachite Kingfisher Corythornis cristatus
- African Thrush Turdus pelios
- Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
- White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis
- African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae
- Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta
- Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides
- Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
- Pygmy Sunbird Hedydipna platura
- Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
- Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
- Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
- White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
- White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis
- Pin-tailed Whydah Vidua macroura
- Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
- Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
- Black Crake Zapornia flavirostra
- Broad-billed Roller Eurystomus glaucurus
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
- White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus
- African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
- Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
- Senegal Batis Batis senegalensis
- Blackcap Babbler Turdoides reinwardtii
- Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera
- Orange-breasted Bushshrike Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
- Green Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus
- Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus
- Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Wilson's Indigobird Vidua wilsoni
- Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
- African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
- Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
- African Golden Oriole Oriolus auratus
- Abyssinian Roller Coracias abyssinicus
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- Shikra Tachyspiza badia
- Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis
- Abyssinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- Bearded Barbet Pogonornis dubius
- African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
- Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus
- Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus
- Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus
- Black-headed Heron Ardea melanocephala
- African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
- Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus
- Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus
- Village Indigobird Vidua chalybeata
- Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis
- Western House Martin Delichon urbicum
- Little Swift Apus affinis
- Grey Tit-Flycatcher Fraseria plumbea
- Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
- Black-faced Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata
- Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator
- Gosling's Bunting Emberiza goslingi
- African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
- Purple Heron Ardea purpurea
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Togo Paradise Whydah Vidua togoensis
- Purple Roller Coracias naevius
- Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis
- White-breasted Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris pectoralis
- Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
- Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus
- Brubru Nilaus afer
- Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura
- Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Black-winged Red Bishop Euplectes hordeaceus
- Red-headed Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Pale Flycatcher Agricola pallidus
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
- Red-billed Quelea Quelea quelea
- Bruce's Green Pigeon Treron waalia
- Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta
- Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
- Exclamatory Paradise Whydah Vidua interjecta
- Yellow-mantled Widowbird Euplectes macroura
- Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Western Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei
- Grey Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus
- African Cuckoo-Hawk Aviceda cuculoides
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
- Copper Sunbird Cinnyris cupreus
- Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
- Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
- Sun Lark Galerida modesta
- Red-chested Swallow Hirundo lucida
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Red-headed Quelea Quelea erythrops
- Rufous Cisticola Cisticola rufus
- Shining-blue Kingfisher Alcedo quadribrachys
- Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
- Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara
- Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus
- Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
- Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii
- Yellow-billed Egret Ardea brachyrhyncha
- Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens
- Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens
- Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster
- Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
- Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
- White-fronted Black Chat Oenanthe albifrons
- White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus
- Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata
- Pied Crow Corvus albus
- Golden-tailed Woodpecker Campethera abingoni
- African Hobby Falco cuvierii
- African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis
- Forbes's Plover Thinornis forbesi
- African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis
- Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
- Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
- Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
- Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis
- Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea
- Common Swift Apus apus
- Yellow-crowned Bishop Euplectes afer
- Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
- Red-headed Lovebird Agapornis pullarius
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris
- Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
- Striped Kingfisher Halcyon chelicuti
- Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix leucotis
- Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura
- Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Vieillot's Barbet Lybius vieilloti
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Red-winged Prinia Prinia erythroptera
- Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
- Reed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus
- Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus
- Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes
- Pied-winged Swallow Hirundo leucosoma
- European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
- Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar
- African Spotted Creeper Salpornis salvadori
- Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus
- West African Seedeater Crithagra canicapilla
- Singing Cisticola Cisticola cantans
- African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster
- White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
- Red-necked Falcon Falco chicquera
- Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
- White-throated Francolin Campocolinus albogularis
- Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
- Grey-headed Bushshrike Malaconotus blanchoti
- Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus
- Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
- Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini
- White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
- Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
- Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami
- Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus
- Moustached Grass Warbler Melocichla mentalis
- Plain Nightjar Caprimulgus inornatus
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates
- Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli
- Variable Sunbird Cinnyris venustus
- Western Olivaceous Warbler Iduna opaca
- Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps
- Dwarf Bittern Botaurus sturmii
- Brown Snake Eagle Circaetus cinereus
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
- Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi
- Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
- Flappet Lark Amirafra rufocinnamomea
- Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
- Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
- Croaking Cisticola Cisticola natalensis
- African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
- Yellow Penduline Tit Anthoscopus parvulus
- Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
- Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
- Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
- Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae
- Dorst's Cisticola Cisticola guinea
- Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
- Brown-rumped Bunting Emberiza affinis
- Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
- Standard-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longipennis
- Mottled Spinetail Telacanthura ussheri
- Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus
- Plain-backed Pipit Anthus leucophrys
- White-rumped Seedeater Crithagra leucopygia
- Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Short-winged Cisticola Cisticola brachypterus
- Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis
- Thick-billed Cuckoo Pachycoccyx audeberti
- West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Rock-loving Cisticola Cisticola aberrans
- Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini
- Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius
- Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
- Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus vitellinus
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
- Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
- Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
- Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis
- Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
- Yellow-throated Longclaw Macronyx croceus
- Spotted Thick-knee Burhinus capensis
- Mosque Swallow Cecropis senegalensis
- Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
- Senegal Lapwing Vanellus lugubris
- African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Common Hoopoe Upupa epops
- Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii
- African Silverbill Euodice cantans
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Black-bellied Bustard Lissotis melanogaster
- Singing Bush Lark Mirafra javanica
- Brown-necked Parrot Poicephalus fuscicollis
- Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
- Orange-breasted Waxbill Amandava subflava
- Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis
- Rufous-rumped Lark Pinarocorys erythropygia
- Piapiac Ptilostomus afer
- Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
- Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus
- Lesser Moorhen Paragallinula angulata
- Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
- Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus
- Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps
- Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
- Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis
- African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
- Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
- Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
- White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster
- Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
- Western Nicator Nicator chloris
- Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
- Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
- Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea
- Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens
- Garden Warbler Sylvia borin
- Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Fraseria ocreata
- Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi
- Barka Indigobird Vidua larvaticola
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis
- Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Mole NP – Samole Loop & waterhole?
February–March and November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 195 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Mole NP – Samole Loop & waterhole?
330 species, from 19,465 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Mole NP – Samole Loop & waterhole in November?
The most recorded in November: Red-throated Bee-eater, Sahel Bush Sparrow, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Long-tailed Glossy Starling and Hadada Ibis.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.