New Trip Report: Ghana
Here is a new report on Ghana. Great to see more and more people combining serious birding with serious mammaling (they also racked up over 400 bird species).
Ghana, 2021: Daan Drukker, 2 weeks & 41 species including Common Cusimanse, Gambian Mongoose, Pardine Genet, Pel’s Anomalure and Patas Monkey.
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Daan Drukker
Thanks! I didn’t know that alternative name for Pel’s Pouched Bat, but it’s quite spot on for a name. I was a bit confused myself when trying to identify it due to the seemingly forked tail, but thanks to Nils Bouillard, the identification was still possible, also because we had a good recording. Jacob Fahr was quite happy with the observation too
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astrapia
Great report, Daan – I wish I’d read it before I went! If our experience is anything to go by, many of the local guides are very confused about the names for squirrel species, so I suspect records in previous trip reports may not be reliable. For example, we were told several times we were watching Slender-tailed Squirrel, but in my opinion these were Forest Giant Squirrels.
The Mole crocs are surely West African Crocodile Crocodylus suchus?-
Daan Drukker
Hi Astrapia, Thanks! I was not aware of the split of the crocodile. I’ve edited it in my observations. Are you by any chance familiar with other West-African herps? I have some other ID-questions as well, see photos here: https://observation.org/users/22414/photos/?date_after=&date_before=&species=&species_group=3&province=136&rarity=&search=&likes=&advanced=on&location=&sex=&type=&validation_status=&life_stage=&activity=&method=
Interesting remarks on the squirrels. I had gotten the feeling as well that many species are frequently misnamed on the citizen science platforms and trip reports. I suspected the Slender-taileds to be Red-legged Sun Squirrels though, and did not consider possible confusion with Forest Giants. If there are any photos I would be interested to try and help with ID!
All the best,
Daan
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Venkat Sankar
Great report! Some high quality images of rarely-photographed species here. For example, this report contains what I think are the first published photos of the very distinctive Black Hawk Bat.