Birds in Ghana? Tell me what kind of bird I saw?

Question

When I was in Accra in 2003, I saw a lot of these big black and white birds standing around on the ground. They flew, too, but mostly I saw them just standing around. They were big birds, bigger than chickens.

No one I asked had any idea what they were. Any ideas? I looked at all the "birds of Ghana" listed on Wikipedia, and didn't see the one I was looking for. The closest thing I found was maybe the cane vulture, but I don't think the birds I saw looked like vultures.

I'm going again in August...

Answer 1

Hi, I'm living in Ghana.

May you are talking about a special type of crow.

The called White-necked Raven http://www.stanford.edu/~siegelr/raven.j...

Have a safe journey and bring more money. Ghana is now very expensive (especially Accra).