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Come Bird Ghana with Malimbe Tours!

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My name is Kalu Afasi, I am a birding guide from Ghana, a country in West Africa. In the more recent past, I have founded my own company, MALIMBE TOURS, also known as GHANA BIRD TOURS. It was a fantastic experience. I regularly apply my expertise in aid of bird conservation in Ghana.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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White-necked or Yellow-headed Picathartes, Bonkro, Ghana. Photo by Keith Valentine (Rockjumper Birding Tours) This past December I visited Ghana specifically to search for White-necked Picathartes. Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered in Ghana at a community forest reserve!

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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And what I am saying here doesn’t only apply to his Sri Lanka guide, but to all the others as well (these include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Suriname).

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Your Best Birds of the Year for 2012

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Attila Steiner, who I was lucky enough to meet while I was in Hungary , was ecstatic to see a rare rail in Ghana: It was my last afternoon in Ankasa Reserve, Ghana. I have chronicled the experience on my blog. Here, without further ado, are your Best Birds of 2012, in no particular order.

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Wrapping Up Birding Tourism February

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Birding Experiences. Macaw Lodge. InkaNatura Travel. Bird Uganda Safaris. Birding Expeditions. Capture Africa Safaris. Puembo Birding Garden. Las Terrazas de Dana Boutique Lodge and Spa. Jaguarundi Travel. Aruacana Lodge. Cave Creek Ranch. Limneo Lodge. Malimbe Tours.

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Birding – An Extreme Sport

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Having learned from my Namibian experience I walked away briskly. She inquired what was wrong and I answered that “ I had been naughty in Ghana ”. It took me less than a second to realize “ being naughty in Ghana ” could be construed in an extra-marital way, so I hastened to add “ I waded through sewage ”.

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GHANA – Upper Guinea Forest Birding at its best!

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Through his extensive travels, Chris has come to know Ghana very well and shares why this West African country should be high on every birder’s bucket list. Of course this is just a single morning in a very small part of Ghana and there is so much more to see! Truly fantastic.

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