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Overview
The Atewa Range Forest Reserve is located in southeastern Ghana, near the town of Kibi.
It's an excellent place for many rare Upper Guinean endemics.
Birds
Notable Species
Check-list
Birds you can see here include:
Western Cattle Egret, Hooded Vulture, African Harrier Hawk, Yellow-billed Kite, Grey Kestrel, Ahanta Francolin, Blue-spotted Wood-Dove, Tambourine Dove, African Green Pigeon, Red-eyed Dove, Laughing Dove, Red-fronted Parrot, Black Cuckoo, Blue Malkoha, Senegal Coucal, Black-throated Coucal, Little Swift, Woodland Kingfisher, White-throated Bee-eater, African Pied Hornbill, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Bristle-nosed Barbet, Buff-spotted Woodpecker, Lesser Striped Swallow, African Pied Wagtail, Little Greenbul, Little Grey Greenbul, White-throated Greenbul, Simple Greenbul, Common Bulbul, Western Nicator, Grey-headed Bristlebill, Red-tailed Greenbul, Lowland Akalat, White-tailed Alethe, African Thrush, Green Crombec, Green Hylia, Kemp's Longbill, Grey Longbill, Red-faced Cisticola, Whistling Cisticola, Green-backed Camaroptera, Olive-green Camaroptera, Red-bellied Paradise-Flycatcher, Dusky Crested Flycatcher, Chestnut Wattle-eye, Puvel's Illadopsis, Tit-Hylia, Little Green Sunbird, Olive Sunbird, Buff-throated Sunbird, Collared Sunbird, Olive-bellied Sunbird, Superb Sunbird, Northern Yellow White-eye, Northern Fiscal, Black-winged Oriole, Fanti Drongo, Pied Crow, Olive-naped Weaver, Village Weaver, Yellow-mantled Weaver, Vieillot's Black Weaver, Maxwell's Black Weaver, Grosbeak Weaver, Crested Malimbe, Red-headed Malimbe, Black-winged Red Bishop, Grey-headed Nigrita, Western Bluebill, Bronze Mannikin, Pin-tailed Whydah
Other Wildlife
Site Information
History and Use
Large parts of the area have been declared a forest reserve. However the reserve is under severe pressure from logging, hunting for bushmeat and mining exploration (for gold and bauxite).
