Ghana 2016

Female Patas Monkey nursing infant

Juvenile Lowe's Mona Monkey portrait

Buffon's Kob calf

Female Buffon's Kob with calf

Callithrix Monkey

Geoffroy's Black-and-White Colobus

Lowe's Mona Monkey portrait

Female Lowe's Mona Monkey with infant

Male Bushbuck

Female Olive Baboon with baby

Olive Baboon

Female Warthog portrait

Warthog piglet

Female Warthog portrait

Kintampo Rope Squirrel

White-shouldered Black Tit

West African Wattle-eye

Stone Partridges

Senegal Parrot

Senegal Coucal

Mangrove Sunbird

Pied Crows

Male Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu

Red-throated Bee-eaters

Female Senegal Batis

Lavender Waxbills

Laughing Dove on nest

Hooded Vulture in flight

Green Hylia

Fraser's Forest Flycatcher on nest

African Pied Hornbill

Black-and-White Mannikins preening

Blue-breasted Kingfisher

Collared Pratincole

Fraser's Eagle Owl

Round-winged Orange Tip

Forest Caper White

Calypso Caper White

African Wood White

Citrus Swallowtail

Forest Mother-of-Pearl

Little Commodore

Common Savanna Bush Brown

Light Bush Brown

Male Broad-banded Green Swallowtail

Male Jodutta Glider

Female Western Fantasia

Blue Diadem

Dark Blue Pansy

Fashion Commodore

Gambia Nymph

Male Forest Glade Nymph

Dark Palm Forester

Male Common Yellow Glider

Ceres Forester

Purple-brown Hairstreak

Smoky Bean Cupid

Leptotes Blue

Plain Tiger

Angular Glider

Pale Babul Blue

Long-tailed Blue

Common Ginger White

Common False Head

Common Fairy Hairstreak

Common Pathfinder Skipper

Savanna Pathfinder Skipper

African Giant Skipper

Male Spotted Ciliate Blue

Spotted Ciliate Blue

Senegal Mabuya

Male Common Agama Lizard

Female Common Agama Lizard

West African Fiddler Crab

Male Lucia Widow

Male Western Bluewing

Male Giant Skimmer

Bold Skimmer

Female Lucia Widow

Male Lucia Widow

Ghana Red-banded Millipede

Ghanaian Tortoise Beetle

Ghanaian Longhorn Beetle

Ghanaian Tiger Beetle

Ghanaian Solitary Wasp
Our holiday in Ghana in March 2016 was organised for us by Ashanti African Tours, a local Ghana company. There was a strong focus on butterflies and our guide Andrew Amankwaa was an expert on Ghana’s butterfly fauna, as well as a good bird guide. After visiting a couple of sites near Accra we moved on to Kakum National Park which has a wonderful elevated walkway through the forest canopy. We then spent a couple of nights in a tent at a well organised campsite on the edge of Ankasa Forest Reserve in the far S.W. of Ghana close to its border with the Ivory Coast. A long drive north took us to a very different habitat in Mole National Park, where we stayed at the comfortable Mole Motel within the park, on the way visiting a site to see the rare and endangered Yellow-headed Picathartes. On the way back to Accra we visited a monkey sanctuary at Boebeng-Fiema and the Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary.