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Triplist Ghana) 22 Februari – 9 Maart 2014 Triplist Ghana) 22 februari – 9 maart 2014 ♫ = only heard Birds (407 species) White-Faced Whistling-Duck Bateleur Whimbrel Black Cuckoo Hartlaub’s Duck Congo-serpent Eagle Ruddy turnstone African Cuckoo African Pigmy Goose Western Marsh Harrier Sanderling Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Helmeted Guinea-fowl African Harrier-Hawk Little Stint Klaas’ Cuckoo White-throated Francolin Dark Chanting Goshawk Egyptian Plover African Emerald Cuckoo Double-spurred Francolin Red-chested Goshawk Rock Pratincole Diederik Cuckoo Stone Partridge Shikra Greater Painted Snipe Blue Malkoha Little Grebe Lizard Buzzard Black Tern Black-throated Coucal ♫ Woolly-necked Stork Grasshopper Buzzard Royal Tern Blue-headed Coucal Long-Tailed Cormorant Red-necked Buzzard Sandwich Tern Senegal Coucal Hamerkop Cassin’s Hawk-Eagle White-winged Tern African Scops Owl White-crested Tiger Heron Wahlberg’s Eagle Speckled Pigeon Grayish Eagle-Owl Grey Heron African Hawk-Eagle Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Fraser’s Eagle-Owl ♫ Black-headed Heron Crowned Eagle Red-eyed Dove Akun Eagle-Owl Purple Heron Common Kestrel Vinaceous Dove Pel’s Fishing Owl Great White Egret Grey Kestrel Laughing Dove Pearl-spotted Owlet Intermediate Egret Red-necked Falcon Black-billed Wood Dove African Wood Owl ♫ Little Egret African Hobby Blue-spotted Wood Dove Long-tailed Nightjar Western Reef Egret Lanner Falcon Tambourine Dove Black-shouldered Nightjar Cattle Egret White-spotted Fluff-tail Blue-headed Wood Dove Standard-winged Nightjar Squacco Heron Black Crake Namaqua Dove Mottled Spinetail Striated Heron African Finfoot Bruce's Green Pigeon Black Spinetail Goliath Heron Senegal-thicknee African Green Pigeon Sabine’s Spinetail Black-crowned Night Heron Spur-winged Lapwing Rose-ringed Parakeet Cassin’s Spinetail Glossy Ibis African Wattled Lapwing Red-headed Lovebird Common Swift Hadada Ibis White-headed Lapwing Grey Parrot Little Swift African Cuckoo-Hawk Grey Plover Brown-necked Parrot White-rumped Swift European Honey Buzzard Kittlitz’s Plover Red-fronted Parrot African Palm-Swift Bat-hawk Common Ringed Plover Senegal Parrot Narina’s Trogon ♫ Black-shouldered Kite Forbes’s Plover Great-blue Turaco Malachite Kingfisher Yellow-billed Kite Black-winged Stilt Yellow-billed Turaco White-bellied Kingfisher Palm-nut Vulture African Jacana Violet Turaco Dwarf Kingfisher Hooded Vulture Common Sandpiper Western Grey Plantain-eater African Pygmy-Kingfisher African White-backed Vulture Common Greenshank Levaillant’s Cuckoo Chocolate-backed Kingfisher African Fish Eagle Wood Sandpiper Great-spotted Cuckoo Grey-headed Kingfisher Beaudouin’s Snake Eagle Green Sandpiper Red-chested Cuckoo Woodland Kingfisher Blue-breasted Kingfisher Thick-billed Honeyguide Sun Lark Wood Warbler Striped Kingfisher African Piculet Barn Swallow Western Olivaceous Warbler Giant Kingfisher Fine-spotted Woodpecker Red-chested Swallow Melodious Warbler Pied Kingfisher Buff-spotted woodpecker Ethiopian Swallow Black-capped Apalis Black Bee-eater Cardinal Woodpecker White-throated Blue Swallow Yellow-breasted Apalis Blue-headed Bee-eater Melancholy woodpecker Wire-tailed Swallow Sharpe’s Apalis Red-throated Bee-eater Fire-bellied woodpecker Pied-winged Swallow Grey-backed Camaroptera Little Bee-eater African Grey Woodpecker West African Swallow Yellow-browed Camaroptera Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Rufous-sided Broadbill Lesser-striped Swallow Olive-green Camaroptera ♫ White-throated Bee-eater African Shrike-flycatcher Rufous-chested Swallow Red-faced Cisticola European Bee-eater Black-and-white flycatcher Preuss’s Cliff Swallow Singing Cisticola Rosy Bee-eater Common Wattle-eye Common House Martin Whistling Cisticola Abyssinian Roller Chestnut Wattle-eye Square-tailed Saw-wing Winding Cisticola Rufous-crowned Roller Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Fanti Saw-wing Croaking Cisticola Blue-bellied Roller Senegal Batis African Blue Flycatcher Short-winged Cisticola Broad-billed Roller Fernando Po Batis White-shouldered Black Tit Rufous Cisticola Blue-throated Roller White-crested Helmetshrike Dusky Tit Zitting Cisticola Green Wood Hoopoe Red-billed Helmetshrike Forest Penduline Tit Oriole Warbler White-headed Wood Hoopoe Brubru Tit Hylia Tawny-flanked Prinia Forest Wood Hoopoe Northern Puffback African Spotted Creeper Red-winged Warbler White-crested Hornbill Sabine’s Puffback Slender-billed Greenbul Senegal Eremomela Black Dwarf Hornbill Marsh Tchagra Golden Greenbul Rufous-crowned Eremomela Northern Red-billed Hornbill Black-crowned Tchagra Green-tailed Bristlebill ♫ Green Hylia African Pied Hornbill Brown-crowned Tchagra Red-tailed Bristlebill Yellow White-eye African Grey Hornbill Common Gonolek Grey-headed Bristlebill Blackcap Illadopsis Piping Hornbill Sulpher-breasted Bushshrike Simple Greenbul Rufous-winged Illadopsis Brown-cheeked Hornbill Blue Cuckooshrike Honeyguide Greenbul Puvel’s Illadopsis Black-casqued Hornbill ♫ Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike Spotted Greenbul Pale-breasted Illadopsis Yellow-casqued Hornbill Purple-throated Cuckooshrike Swamp Palm Greenbul Brown Illadopsis Yellow-billed Barbet Northern Fiscal Yellow Bearded Greenbul Blackcap Babbler Bristle-nosed Barbet Yellow-billed Shrike Western Bearded Greenbul ♫ Brown Babbler Naked-faced Barbet African Golden Oriole Little Grey Greenbul Violet-backed Hyliota Speckled Tinkerbird Western Black-headed Oriole Ansorge’s Greenbul Pale Flycatcher Red-rumped Tinkerbird Black-winged Oriole Plain Greenbul Northern Black Flycatcher Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Square-tailed Drongo Yellow-whisked Greenbul Fraser's Forest Flycatcher Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Shining Drongo Little Greenbul Spotted Flycatcher Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Fork-tailed Drongo Icterine Greenbul Ussher’s Flycatcher Hairy-breasted Barbet Velvet-mantled Drongo Common Bulbul Swamp Flycatcher Vieillot’s Barbet Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher Green Crombec Little Grey Flycatcher Double-toothed Barbet Red-bellied Paradise-Flycatcher Lemon-bellied Crombec Dusky-blue Flycatcher Bearded Barbet African Paradise-Flycatcher Northern Crombec Cassin’s Flycatcher Cassin’s honeybird Piapiac Moustached Grass-Warbler Ashy Flycatcher Yellow-footed Honeyguide Pied Crow Kemp’s Longbill Lead-coloured Flycatcher Least Honeyguide Yellow-headed Picathartes Grey Longbill White-tailed Alethe Lesser Honeyguide Western Nicator Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Brown-chested Alethe White-crowned Robin-Chat Little Green Sunbird Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Black-winged Red Bishop Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat Green Sunbird Brown-rumped Bunting Red-billed Quelea Forest Robin Collared Sunbird Yellow-fronted Canary Grey-headed Nigrita Pied Flycatcher Pygmy Sunbird Northern Grey-headed Sparrow Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Whinchat Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Bush Petronia White-breasted Nigrita Familiar Chat Olive Sunbird Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Lavender Waxbill White-fronted Black Chat Buff-throated Sunbird Red-vented Malimbe Orange-cheeked Waxbill Finsch's Flycatcher-Thrush Scarlet-chested Sunbird Blue-billed Malimbe Black-rumped Waxbill White-tailed Ant Thrush Olive-bellied Sunbird Crested Malimbe Western Bluebill African Thrush Tiny Sunbird Red-headed Malimbe Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu Bronze-tailed Starling Beautiful Sunbird Black-necked Weaver Red-winged Pytilia Splendid Starling Splendid Sunbird Orange Weaver Red-billed Firefinch Purple Starling Johanna’s Sunbird Vieillot’s Black Weaver Bar-breasted Firefinch Long-tailed Glossy Starling Superb Sunbird Village Weaver Black-faced Firefinch Copper-tailed Starling Copper Sunbird Black-headed Weaver African Silverbill Violet-backed Starling Green-headed Sunbird Yellow-mantled Weaver Black-and-white Mannikin Forest Chestnut-winged Starling Reichenbach's Sunbird Maxwell’s Black Weaver Bronze Mannikin Narrow-tailed Starling Western Yellow Wagtail Preuss's Weaver Magpie Mannikin Fraser’s Sunbird African Pied Wagtail Yellow-mantled Widowbird Pin-tailed Whydah Brown Sunbird Plain-backed Pipit Grosbeak Weaver Togo Paradise Whydah Western Violet-backed Sunbird Tree Pipit ♫ Northern Red Bishop Mammals Olive Baboon Callithrix Monkey Lesser Spot-nosed Monkey Demidoff’s Galago ♫ Straw-coloured Fruit Bat Gambian epauletted fruit bat Yellow-winged Bat Scrub Hare Striped Ground Squirrel African Gaint Squirrel Kintampo Rope Squirrel Gambian Sun Squirrel Red-legged Sun Squirrel White-tailed Mongoose Tree Hyrax ♫ Bush Elephant Common Warthog Bushbuck Kob Waterbuck .
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