Birding The Rainforest Lodge, Kakum

Yesterday I reviewed the Rainforest Lodge but I saved the best for last – the birds!

These were all seen between 3:30-5:30pm-ish.  I will do my best to identify them from the guidebook.  There are a few I can’t find so if anyone is familiar with Ghanaian birds and wants to help, please do so in the comments.

Red-eyed Doves

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Typical Weaver Nest

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Black-necked Weaver

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Village Weaver

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Copper Sunbird

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Pied Crow

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Western Oriole

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Pied Flycatcher?

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And here’s my favourite – the Woodland Kingfisher!

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Somehow my husband lost interest in the birds and decided to make friends with the mechanics across the road.

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Birding Without Even Leaving The Lodges

Birding is often such hard work.  Sometimes you have to trek through mud, trudge up a mountain for hours or endure tropical humidity and rainstorms.  So even the most hardy birders appreciate when the birds make it easy to see them.  Still wild of course – but when you have a lodge such as Refugio Amazonas located in the Peruvian rainforest that attracts birds in the grounds, why not just sit back, relax and enjoy the view?

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For more information, please see my review of Refugio Amazonas.  Peru is easily reached with frequent flyer miles.

I think this video was shot in the same bungalow we had, it sure looks like it!