Cameroon · Southwest

Mt. Kupe – Max's trail

271 species and 2,313 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.

Best months: March–April, with up to 118 species seen regularly.

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Seen here in November

Naked-faced BarbetGymnobucco calvus

Yellow-spotted BarbetBuccanodon duchaillui

Eastern Yellow-billed BarbetTrachylaemus purpuratus

African Emerald CuckooChrysococcyx cupreus

African Green PigeonTreron calvus

Western Mountain GreenbulArizelocichla tephrolaema

Yellow-bellied Wattle-eyePlatysteira concreta

Black-capped ApalisApalis nigriceps

Black-faced Rufous WarblerBathmocercus rufus

Grey-headed BroadbillSmithornis sharpei

Pink-footed PuffbackDryoscopus angolensis

Yellow-whiskered GreenbulEurillas latirostris

Black-capped Woodland WarblerPhylloscopus herberti

Dark-backed WeaverPloceus bicolor

Species seen regularly, by month

Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.

Nearby hotspots

Mt. Kupe2 km318 species
Bakossi Mountains – Kodmin Forest19 km239 species

All 271 species recorded here

Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus
Yellow-footed Flycatcher Muscicapa sethsmithi
African Thrush Turdus pelios
Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus
African Blue Flycatcher Elminia longicauda
Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui
Guinea Turaco Tauraco persa
Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus
Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus
Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea
African Emerald Cuckoo Chrysococcyx cupreus
Banded Prinia Prinia bairdii
African Green Pigeon Treron calvus
Western Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema
Black-crowned Waxbill Estrilda nonnula
Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni
Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye Platysteira concreta
Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus
Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps
Black-faced Rufous Warbler Bathmocercus rufus
Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus
Green Hylia Hylia prasina
Northern Yellow White-eye Zosterops senegalensis
Grey-headed Broadbill Smithornis sharpei
Little Greenbul Eurillas virens
Pink-footed Puffback Dryoscopus angolensis
Western Nicator Nicator chloris
Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Passer griseus
Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris
Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis
Black-capped Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus herberti
Dark-backed Weaver Ploceus bicolor
Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix
Fraser's Rufous Thrush Stizorhina fraseri
Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer
Green Longtail Urolais epichlorus
Gabon Woodpecker Dendropicos gabonensis
Crossley's Ground Thrush Geokichla crossleyi
Grey-headed Greenbul Phyllastrephus poliocephalus
Black Saw-wing Psalidoprocne pristoptera
Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus
Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus
Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis
Cameroon Sunbird Cyanomitra oritis
Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas
Grey-headed Nigrita Nigrita canicapillus
White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus
Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota
Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus
Ursula's Sunbird Cinnyris ursulae
Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens
Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus
Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator
Red-eyed Puffback Dryoscopus senegalensis
Orange-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda melpoda
Lühder's Bushshrike Laniarius luehderi
Black-necked Wattle-eye Platysteira chalybea
Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus
White-chinned Prinia Schistolais leucopogon
Green Crombec Sylvietta virens
Lesser Striped Swallow Cecropis abyssinica
Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher Bias musicus
Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps
Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis
Western Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus
Bates's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone batesi
Petit's Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti
African Piculet Verreauxia africana
Collared Sunbird Hedydipna collaris
Green-headed Sunbird Cyanomitra verticalis
Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris
African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus
Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer
Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor
Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus
Mountain Sooty Boubou Laniarius poensis
Brown-throated Wattle-eye Platysteira cyanea
Bocage's Akalat Sheppardia bocagei
Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens
Little Swift Apus affinis
Pied Crow Corvus albus
Green-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus gladiator
Scaly Spurfowl Pternistis squamatus
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus
Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus
White-bellied Crested Flycatcher Elminia albiventris
Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps
Black Kite Milvus migrans
White-tailed Warbler Poliolais lopezi
Yellow Longbill Macrosphenus flavicans
White-bellied Robin-Chat Cossyphicula roberti
Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus
Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus
Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei
Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons
Black-throated Apalis Apalis jacksoni
Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea
Green-backed Camaroptera Camaroptera brachyura
African Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina picta
Bronze Mannikin Spermestes cucullata
Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa
African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus
Shelley's Oliveback Nesocharis shelleyi
Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi
Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina
Many-colored Bushshrike Chlorophoneus multicolor
Cameroon Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla montana
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus
Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria
West African Batis Batis occulta
Tiny Sunbird Cinnyris minullus
Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis
Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
Western Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea
Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius
Black Bee-eater Merops gularis
Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens
Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
Black-necked Weaver Ploceus nigricollis
White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra
Tullberg's Woodpecker Campethera tullbergi
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus
White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis
Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta
Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus nitens
Black-and-white Mannikin Spermestes bicolor
Woodhouse's Antpecker Parmoptila woodhousei
African Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone viridis
Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum
Levaillant's Cuckoo Clamator levaillantii
Ethiopian Swallow Hirundo aethiopica
Blackcap Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri
Southern Hyliota Hyliota australis
Grey Apalis Apalis cinerea
Cameroon Olive Pigeon Columba sjostedti
Highland Rush Warbler Bradypterus centralis
Eastern Bearded Greenbul Criniger chloronotus
Spectacled Weaver Ploceus ocularis
Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus
Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea
Yellow-fronted Canary Crithagra mozambica
Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii
Sjöstedt's Barred Owlet Glaucidium sjostedti
African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta
African Palm Swift Cypsiurus parvus
Tit Hylia Pholidornis rushiae
African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro
Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha niveicapilla
Grey-chested Babbler Kakamega poliothorax
Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
Bates's Sunbird Cinnyris batesi
Lowland Masked Apalis Apalis binotata
Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis
Common Swift Apus apus
Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema
Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii
Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia
Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor
Buff-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura elegans
Whinchat Saxicola rubetra
Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis
Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris
Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis
Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis
Velvet-mantled Drongo Dicrurus modestus
Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus
Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri
Elliot's Woodpecker Dendropicos elliotii
Tropical Boubou Laniarius major
Mount Kupe Bushshrike Chlorophoneus kupeensis
Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae
Wire-tailed Swallow Hirundo smithii
Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata
Yellow-crested Woodpecker Chloropicus xantholophus
Fraser's Eagle-Owl Ketupa poensis
Forest Swallow Atronanus fuliginosus
Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator
Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi
Sabine's Puffback Dryoscopus sabini
Dusky Crested Flycatcher Elminia nigromitrata
Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis
Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura
White-tailed Ant Thrush Neocossyphus poensis
Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus
Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana
Red-chested Owlet Glaucidium tephronotum
Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens
European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus
Slender-billed Weaver Ploceus pelzelni
Tawny-flanked Prinia Prinia subflava
Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus
Western Barn Owl Tyto alba
Red-faced Cisticola Cisticola erythrops
Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis
Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus
Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi
Pale-throated Greenbul Atimastillas flavigula
Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Campephaga phoenicea
Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus
Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus
Western Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus
Long-legged Pipit Anthus pallidiventris
Double-toothed Barbet Pogonornis bidentatus
Brown-chested Alethe Chamaetylas poliocephala
Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus
Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis
Black Cuckoo Cuculus clamosus
Red-chested Cuckoo Cuculus solitarius
Little Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis
White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus
Falkenstein's Greenbul Chlorocichla falkensteini
Mountain Robin-Chat Cossyphicula isabellae
Lesser Honeyguide Indicator minor
African Dwarf Kingfisher Ispidina lecontei
Yellow-throated Nicator Nicator vireo
Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini
Slender-billed Greenbul Stelgidillas gracilirostris
Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
Least Honeyguide Indicator exilis
Rufous-vented Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone rufocinerea
Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
African Fish Eagle Icthyophaga vocifer
Great Egret Ardea alba
White-bellied Tit Melaniparus albiventris
Rock Dove Columba livia
Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus
Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild
Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi
Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster
Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea
Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus
Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi
Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens
European Bee-eater Merops apiaster
Blue-breasted Bee-eater Merops variegatus
Mountain Wagtail Motacilla clara
Mottled Swift Tachymarptis aequatorialis
Forest Penduline Tit Anthoscopus flavifrons
Bates's Swift Apus batesi
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi
Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex
Orange-tufted Sunbird Cinnyris bouvieri
African Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis melanocrissus
Red-breasted Swallow Cecropis semirufa
Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus
Pale-breasted Illadopsis Illadopsis rufipennis
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus
Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus
Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata
Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei
Yellow-breasted Boubou Laniarius atroflavus
Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni
Thick-billed Weaver Amblyospiza albifrons
Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina
White-rumped Swift Apus caffer
Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster
Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta
Black-headed Waxbill Estrilda atricapilla
White-spotted Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia tonsa
Diederik Cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius
Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii

Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.

Questions

When is the best time to go birding at Mt. Kupe – Max's trail?

March–April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 118 in a month.

How many bird species have been seen at Mt. Kupe – Max's trail?

271 species, from 2,313 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.

What birds can I see at Mt. Kupe – Max's trail in November?

The most recorded in November: Naked-faced Barbet, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet, African Emerald Cuckoo 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.