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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. I regularly apply my expertise in aid of bird conservation in Ghana. Before I started birding and guiding I was a professional footballer.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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My connection with Ghana began rather unexpectedly (and as it turned out, rather humorously) more than ten years ago. We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! What makes Ghana so special?

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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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Piping Hornbill

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For me and my birding opportunities, this means Accra in Ghana. Still, if you find yourself with the chance to visit Ghana, grab it forcefully. But at the end of last year, I eventually confirmed one in the University of Ghana, Botanic Gardens, Accra. Sad, but there you go.

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Birding – An Extreme Sport

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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 ”. I got received by a doctor in her early thirties.

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The left-overs. 10 birds that didn’t make it onto the blog.

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Great Coucal (Accra, Ghana). Yellow-billed Shrike (Accra, Ghana). Checkered Woodpecker (Buenos Aires). Greater Leafbird (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). Masked Water-tyrant (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Red Wattled Lapwing (New Delhi, India). Crested Puffin (California, USA). Plain Parakeet (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Happy New Year.

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The Garrulous Jay

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An annual highlight is hearing his first Cuckoo of the year at home in Suffolk, England, which he rates as almost as exciting as watching White-necked Rockfowls in Ghana or Steller’s Eiders in North Norway. A former tour leader, he has seen an awful lot of birds around the world, and wishes he could remember more of them.

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