Ethiopia


Birds 21/10 22/10 23/10 24/10 25/10 26/10 27/10 28/10 29/10 30/10 31/10 01/11 02/11 03/11 04/11 05/11 06/11 07/11 08/11 09/11 10/11 11/11
Little Grebe 3 c.100 1
Great Crested Grebe 1    
Black-necked Grebe c.1,000 4
Great White Pelican 4 2 2 c.60 c.40
Pink-backed Pelican 2
White-breasted Cormorant 2 3 4 c.40
Long-tailed Cormorant 1 4 20
African Darter 1
Grey Heron 1 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 3
Black-headed Heron 1
Purple Heron 1
Intermediate Egret 1 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 3
Little Egret 10 2 3 8 4 1 1 20 10
Western Reef-heron 1
Squacco Heron 1 2 7 10
Cattle Egret 7 10 10 5 1 10 c.20 c.20 c.20 c.20 2
Hammerkop 1 4 4 2 4 1 1 4 c.30 5
Yellow-billed Stork 1 1 1 1 1
African Openbill 1
Black Stork 1 1
Woolly-necked Stork 1 1
Marabou Stork 2 c.50 c.50 c.40 6
Sacred Ibis c.40 5 2 4 c.30 2 c.30 c.40
Hadada 4 2 c.20 c.10 c.10
Wattled Ibis c.30 8 4 4 c.100 3 1 c.20 1
Glossy Ibis 6
African Spoonbill 1 1 1 1 6
Greater Flamingo c.30 c.40
Lesser Flamingo 30,000?
White-faced Whistling-duck 6 2
Blue-winged Goose c.20 6 c.20 c.20 c.40 8
Egyptian Goose c.30 c.10 2 c.20 7 c.20 3 4
Ruddy Shelduck 2 2 2 3
Spur-winged Goose 7 1
African Pygmy-goose 6 4
African Black Duck 2
Common Teal 5
Yellow-billed Duck 10 4 4
Northern Pintail m
Red-billed Teal 3
Hottentot Teal 1
Garganey 2 1 1
Northern Shoveler 7 1
Southern Pochard 3
Black-shouldered Kite 1 1
Black Kite                                            
Yellow-billed Kite c.200 7 c.30 c.40 c.20 c.20 c.10 c.10 c.50 c.20 c.100 c.40 c.40
African Fish-eagle 3 1 3 1 6 6 3
Hooded Vulture c.10 c.10 c.10 2 1 2 c.200 c.30 5 5 c.10
Lammergeier 1 1 2 1
Egyptian Vulture 1 3 3
White-backed Vulture 2 4 c.30 c.10 c.20 1 1
Rüpell's Vulture 4 2 4 c.30 c.10 2
Lappet-faced Vulture 1 1 1 1
Black-chested Snake-Eagle 1 1 1 1 1
Bateleur 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Eurasian Marsh Harrier 1
Pallid Harrier 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Montagu's Harrier 1 4 4 1
Gymnogene 2 1
Dark Chanting Goshawk 1 4 4 1
Eastern Chanting Goshawk 1 1 1 1
Gabar Goshawk 1 1 1 3
Shikra 1 1 1
Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk 1
Black Sparrowhawk 1 1
Grasshopper Buzzard 1 1 1
Crowned Eagle 1 1
Steppe Buzzard 1
Mountain Buzzard 1
Augur Buzzard 2 7 5 3 1 3 c.10 c.15 5 5 1 1 1
Tawny Eagle 1 2 1 1 1 7 1 9 2 5 c.10 2 1 4 c.10 c.10 1 c.10 1
Steppe Eagle 1 3 2 1 1 1 2 2
Eastern Imperial Eagle 2 1
Wahlberg's Eagle 11
Golden Eagle 1
Verreaux's Eagle 1
African Hawk-Eagle 1
Long-crested Eagle 1
Secretary-bird 1 1
Pygmy Falcon 4 1 1
Lesser Kestrel 1 1 1 3 1 1 3
Common Kestrel 1 3 3 10 2 1
Grey Kestrel 1
Eurasian Hobby 1 1
Lanner Falcon 2 1 2 4 1
Peregrine Falcon 1 1
Crested Francolin 1 3 4 2 3 5 3 1
Moorland Francolin 4 4
Harwood's Francolin 1
Yellow-necked Francolin 4 1 1 4 2 5
Chestnut-naped Francolin 6 c.20 c.10 c.15
Erckel's Francolin 1 3
Helmeted Guineafowl 6 c.40 5
Vulturine Guineafowl 6 3 10 c.20 c.10
Black-crowned Crane 4 2
Wattled Crane 12
Common Crane c.40 c.20 c.100 2
Rouget's Rail 1 c.20 c.20 8
Black Crake 4
Moorhen 1
Crested Coot 2 3
Arabian Bustard 3 2
Kori Bustard 1 1 3 1
White-bellied Bustard 2 1 3 1
Buff-crested Bustard 1 12 4 2 1
Hartlaub's Bustard 1
African Jacana 12 9
Black-winged Stilt 5 1 c.30 1 1
Avocet 1 c.30
Stone Curlew 1 1
Senegal Thick-knee 15 2 1
Spotted Thick-knee 1
Somali Courser 12 6
Temminck's Courser 1
Heuglin's Courser 2 1
Spur-winged Plover 3 1 2 2 c.10 2 c.10 3 c.20
Black-headed Lapwing 1 1
Black-winged Lapwing 10
Crowned Lapwing 2 1 2 3 2 1
Spot-breasted Lapwing c.40 c.20
Ringed Plover c.20 c.10 4 c.10 c.20
Little Ringed Plover 1 1 1
Kittlitz's Plover 1
Three-banded Plover 1 1 1
Common Snipe 2
Black-tailed Godwit 1
Whimbrel 1
Marsh Sandpiper 1 10 1
Greenshank 2 3 8 2
Green Sandpiper 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Wood Sandpiper 3 4 1 8 4 5
Common Sandpiper 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1
Little Stint c.300 c.100 5
Temminck's Stint 8 1
Ruff 3 c.200
Lesser Black-backed Gull1 1 1 1
Heuglin's Gull 2
Grey-headed Gull c.50 c.40 5
Black-headed Gull 4 2
Slender-billed Gull 1
Gull-billed Tern 4 4 3
White-winged Black Tern c.40 c.40
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse c.50 c.30
Black-faced Sandgrouse 1 1
Feral Rock Dove 3
Speckled Pigeon c.30 .c40 c.5 c.20 c.20 c.30 c.30 .c20 c,30 c.50 c.40 4 4 5 c.50 c.40
White-collared Pigeon c.30 c.40 c.40 c.20 c.30 c.10
Lemon Dove 1
European Turtle Dove 1
Dusky Turtle Dove 1 c.40 c.40 c.20 c.5 c.5 c.10 c.10 c.10
Red-eyed Dove 23 c.20 c.10 c.10 c.20 3 c.10 c.10 c.10 c.10 3
Cape Turtle Dove 5 1 1 7 3 2 c.30 c.10 c.30
Vinaceous Dove 1
Laughing Dove 3 4 3 1 c.40 c.10 3 7 5 c.10 c.5 c.5 c.5
Emerald-spotted Wood-dove 1 1
Tambourine Dove 1
Namaqua Dove 3 3 2 c.30 c.20 5 3 c.20 c20 c.10 1 2
Mourning Dove 2 5 c20 1 c.10 5 c.30 3 c.10 3 3
White-winged Dove 8
Orange-bellied Parrot 3 2 2
Black-winged Lovebird 6 c.20 c.10
Yellow-fronted Parrot c.15 6
White-cheeked Turaco 3 1 c.15 c.10
Prince Ruspoli's Turaco 3
Bare-faced Go-away-bird 1
White-bellied Go-away-bird 1 4 2 1 c.10 c.10 2 1
Eastern Plantain-eater 1
Jacobin Cuckoo 1
Great Spotted Cuckoo 1
Black Cuckoo 1
Common Cuckoo juv. juv.
Klaas's Cuckoo 1
Dideric Cuckoo 1
Blue-headed Coucal 1 1
White-browed Coucal 1 1 2 1 1
Cape Eagle-owl 1
Greyish Eagle-owl   1
Pearl-spotted Owlet 1
Nubian Nightjar 1
Donaldson-Smith's Nightjar 1
Freckled Nightjar 1
Slender-tailed Nightjar 2 1
African Palm Swift 7 2 4 1 2
Alpine Swift 1
Nyanza Swift c.10 c.20 c.20 c.10 c.10 5
Little Swift 1
White-rumped Swift 1 1 4
Speckled Mousebird 3 4 3 3 1 10 c.20 5 1 c.15 7
Blue-naped Mousebird 1 8
Narina Trogon 2
Half-collared Kingfisher 1 3
Malachite Kingfisher 1 9
African Pygmy Kingfisher 1 1 2
Grey-headed Kingfisher 1 1 1
Woodland Kingfisher 1
Striped Kingfisher 1 1
Giant Kingfisher 1 1
Pied Kingfisher 1 1 3 8 2
Little Bee-eater 2 1 1
Blue-breasted Bee-eater c.10 5 2 2
Somali Bee-eater 2
Madagascar Bee-eater c.30
European Bee-eater 6 c.100 c.30 c.30
Northern Carmine Bee-eater 3 c.30 c.50 5
European Roller 3 5 1 1 2 2 4 1 1 3 2 1
Abyssinian Roller 8 15 5 2 2
Lilac-breasted Roller 1 1
Rufous-crowned Roller 2
Eurasian Hoopoe 2 6 2 3 8 c.10 c.10 c.5 1
Black-billed Woodhoopoe 12 2
Black Scimitarbill 2
Abyssinian Scimitarbill 1 3 2 4 1
Northern Red-billed Hornbill 2 1 2 1 7 7 5 c.20 c.10 5
Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill 1 2 8 10 2
Von Der Decken's Hornbill 2 1
Hemprich's Hornbill 2 1 1
African Grey Hornbill 1 1
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill 8 c.20 6
Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill 2 4 4 2 1
Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird 1
Red-fronted Tinkerbird 2
Red-fronted Barbet 2 2
Black-throated Barbet 10
Banded Barbet 1 1
Black-billed Barbet 3
Double-toothed Barbet 1 1
Yellow-breasted Barbet 3 7 1
Red-and-Yellow Barbet 2
D'Arnaud's Barbet 1 2
Green-backed Honeyguide 1 1
Nubian Woodpecker 1
Abyssinian Woodpecker 1 1
Cardinal Woodpecker 2 2 3
Bearded Woodpecker 1 2 1
Grey-headed Woodpecker 1 2
Singing Bushlark 10
Gillett's Lark 3 4
Foxy Lark 1
Degodi Lark 10
Sidamo Lark 2
Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark 10 2
Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark 5
Erlanger’s Lark 3 2
Somali Short-toed Lark 4
Thekla Lark 1 4 8 5 2 4
Sand Martin c.100 c.20 c.10 c.10
Brown-throated Martin c.10 c.20 c.100
Banded Martin 3
Rock Martin 8 c.20 c.20 3 2 3 3 7
Barn Swallow 4 c.50 c.30 c.20 c.10 c.1000 c.30 2 3 5 5 4 2 3 c.20
Red-chested Swallow 2
Wire-tailed Swallow 1 6 1 c.20 1 2 1 1
White-tailed Swallow 1 6
Lesser Striped Swallow 1 2 1
Red-rumped Swallow 8 4
House Martin 4 c.20 4 1 1 5
Black Sawwing2   2 8 4                                 1  
White Wagtail 1 1
Yellow Wagtail3 4 7 3 2 2 3 c.20 7 c.30 c.20 5 6
Grey Wagtail 1
Mountain Wagtail 2 2 4
Abyssinian Longclaw 1 2
Plain-backed Pipit 1 4 1 1 2 2 1
Grassveld Pipit 1 1 1
Long-billed Pipit 1
Tree Pipit 2
Red-throated Pipit 3 6 2
Grey Cuckoo-shrike 1
Red-shouldered Cuckoo-shrike ♀
Common Bulbul4 2 1   1 c.10 1 3 5 2    
Dodson's Bulbul                               4 4        
Somali Bulbul             1                              
Northern Brownbul 2
Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush 1
Little Rock-thrush 2 1 2
Abyssinian Ground-thrush 1 1
Groundscraper Thrush 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1
Mountain Thrush 1 4 4 3 3 2 c.10 4 c.20 6
African Thrush 1 1 1 4
Bare-eyed Thrush 1
Singing Cisticola 1
Boran Cisticola 1
Rattling Cisticola 1 4 1
Ashy Cisticola 2
Ethiopian Cisticola 1 6
Tiny Cisticola 1
Zitting Cisticola 1
Pectoral-patch Cisticola 1 2 2 3 1 1 3
Tawny-flanked Prinia 2 4 1 2 1 3 1 1 1
Pale Prinia 3 2 1
Yellow-breasted Apalis 2 2 2
Red-fronted Warbler 6 2 4 1
Grey-backed Camaroptera 2 1 4 2 1 1 3
Grey Wren-warbler 1 1 1 1 1
Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler 1
Moustached Grass-Warbler 1
Sedge Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 1
Lesser Swamp-Warbler 1
Olivaceous Warbler 1 1 2 1 1 1
Buff-bellied Warbler 1 1
Yellow-vented Eremomela 6 1
Yellow-bellied Eromomela 1 3 2 1
Northern Crombec          
Phillipa's Crombec 1
Red-faced Crombec 1
Somali Crombec 2 2
Brown Woodland Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 3 1 1 3 1 1 2
Chiffchaff c.10 2 1
Blackcap 1 c.20
Common Whitethroat 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1
Lesser Whitethroat 1 1 1 1 2 1
Ménétries's Warbler 1
Bale Parisoma 4
Banded Parisoma 2
Pale Flycatcher 1 1 2 1
African Grey Flycatcher 1 1 1 2 1
Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 8
Northern Black Flycatcher 1 1
Spotted Flycatcher 1 1
African Dusky Flycatcher 1 1 1
Grey Tit-flycatcher 1
Rüpell's Robin-chat 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1
Spotted Palm-thrush 1
White-browed Scrub-Robin 1 1 2 2
Rufous Bush-chat 4 1
Black Redstart 1
Common Redstart 1 1 1
Whinchat 1
Stonechat 25 1 1
Northern Wheatear 1 c.15 5 c.30 7 c.10 5 c.20 7 6 c.10 3 1 1 4
Abyssinian Black Wheatear 3 1
Pied Wheatear 1 2 3 4 1 1 1 9 2 1 2 1
Black-eared Wheatear 1
Isabelline Wheatear 1 2 3 1
Botta's Wheatear 5 c.30
Brown-tailed Rock-chat 1
Sombre Chat 1 1
Blackstart 6 2
Hill Chat c.10 4 3 1 6
Rüpell's Chat c.10 5 4
Mocking Cliff-chat 4 c.10 1 c.10 1
White-winged Cliff-chat 1
Brown-throated Wattle-eye 1
Grey-headed Batis 2 1 1
Black-headed Batis 1 1
Pygmy Batis 1 1
African Paradise-Flycatcher 1 1 7 3 1
African Hill Babbler 1 1
Scaly Chatterer 2
Rufous Chatterer 2 6 1
White-rumped Babbler 4 2 4 2 4
Abyssinian Catbird 6
White-winged Black-Tit 1
White-backed Black-Tit 1
Somali Tit 1 2
Spotted Creeper 2
Mouse-coloured Penduline-Tit 3 1 2
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird 1 8 8 5
Collared Sunbird 1 1 1 1
Nile Valley Sunbird 1 1
Scarlet-chested Sunbird 1 1 c.10 1
Hunter's Sunbird 1 1
Tacazze Sunbird 2 10 1 7
Beautiful Sunbird 1 4 c.10
Marico Sunbird 2 1 1
Shining Sunbird 1 1
Variable Sunbird 1 1 1 2 1 2
Abyssinian White-eye6 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 7
Broad-ringed White-eye7 2 1 1 c.30 5
Eurasian Golden Oriole 1
Eastern Black-headed Oriole 1 1 6 4
Ethiopian Oriole 1 c.20 c.10 4
Red-backed Shrike 1 2 2 1 1 1
Isabelline Shrike 1 1
Southern Grey Shrike 1 1 1
Grey-backed Fiscal 2
Taita Fiscal 1 1
Somali Fiscal 1 2 2
Common Fiscal 2 1 10 1 7
Woodchat Shrike 1 1
Northern White-crowned Shrike 3 6 20
Brubru 1 1 1 1 2 1
Northern Puffback 1 1 1 1 1 1
Pringle's Puffback 1 1
Black-crowned Tchagra 3 1 1 1 1
Three-streaked Tchagra 1 1
Red-naped Bushshrike 1 1
Tropical Boubou 2 1
Slate-coloured Boubou 1 7 2
Rosy-patched Bushshrike 1 1
Orange-breasted Bushshrike 1 1
Grey-headed Bushshrike 1
White Helmetshrike 6 5
Fork-tailed Drongo 1 4 7 c.10 3 5 2 c.20 c.10 c.10 c.10 c.10 1
Stresemann's Bush-Crow 7 c.40 8
Red-billed Chough 2
Cape Crow c.50 c.20 5 c.10 2
Pied Crow c.10 c.10 c.10 c.20 2 c.10 2 1 1
Somali Crow 8 1
Fan-tailed Raven 5 3 2 3 2 4 8 1 c.10 c20 1
Thick-billed Raven 5 4 3 c.10 c.30 c.20 c.10 2 2 1 c.10 c.20 1
Wattled Starling 1 4 22 c.10
Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling c.30 c.20 c.30 c.10 5
Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling 8
Rüpell's Glossy-Starling 1 c.20
Golden-breasted Starling 1 2 6
Superb Starling 3 3 c.10 1 5 c.10 5 c.20 8 c.10 c.10 4 c.20
Shelley's Starling 3 1 2
White-crowned Starling c.40 c.10 c.30 c.40 c.5 c.10 c.5
Red-winged Starling 3 c.30 1
Slender-billed Starling 8 c.40 c.20 c.30
Bristle-crowned Starling c.20 2
White-billed Starling c.20 5 c.10
Sharpe's Starling 2
Red-billed Oxpecker 1 5
Shelley's Rufous Sparrow 2 1
Swainson's Sparrow 1 c.30 c.20 c.20 c.20 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 3 5 c.20
Parrot-billed Sparrow 2 1
Chestnut Sparrow 1
Yellow-spotted Petronia 1
Bush Petronia 3 5
Red-billed Buffalo-weaver 2 7 2
White-headed Buffalo-weaver 2 c.20 c.10 c.10 2 c.30 4
Speckle-fronted Weaver 1
White-browed Sparrow-weaver 4 c.50 c.10
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver 4 8
Grey-caped Social-weaver c.20 c.10
Black-capped Social-weaver c.20
Baglafecht Weaver8 4 2 1 2 1 6 3 4
Lesser Masked Weaver c.20
Spectacled Weaver 4 2
Rüpell's Weaver 1
Vitelline Masked Weaver 2 1 3 1
Village Weaver 2
Speke's Weaver 1
Juba Weaver 7
Chestnut Weaver c.30
Red-headed Weaver 1 2 c.10
Red-billed Quelea 4
Black-winged Bishop c.20
Northern Red Bishop 3 4
Yellow Bishop 2 1 5
White-winged Widowbird 4
Red-collared Widowbird c.10 3
Grosbeak Weaver 12 1
Red-billed Pytilia 2
Red-billed Firefinch 4 8 4 2
African Firefinch 8 6 3
Jameson's Firefinch 3
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu c.10 7 c.10 c.20 3 2 8 2 1 3
Purple Grenadier 1 2 1 4
Yellow-bellied Waxbill 1 2 2
Abyssinian Waxbill 3
Crimson-rumped Waxbill 6
Common Waxbill 4
Black-cheeked Waxbill 1 1
Bronze Mannikin 1 2 2
Cut-throat 1 1 1
Village Indigobird 2 2 2 1
Straw-tailed Whydah 1 1
Pin-tailed Whydah 1 1
Ankober Serin 6
Yellow-crowned Canary 2 1
Ethiopian Siskin 1 c.30 c.10 c.50
African Citril 2 c.10 2
Yellow-throated Serin 1
Salvadori's Serin 1
White-throated Seedeater 4
Reichenow's Seedeater 2 c.20
Yellow-fronted Canary 2 2
Northern Grosbeak-Canary 1
White-bellied Canary 2 1
Brown-rumped Seedeater c.10 c.40 2 c.10 1 c.20 c.20 c.30
Streaky Seedeater 1 7 1 c.10 c.30 6 8 1 c.30
Ortolan Bunting c.15 1 1 1 2 2 1
House Bunting 1
Cinnamon-breasted Bunting 4 1 2
Somali Bunting 3 3 2
1fuscus
2All apparently 'Brown Sawwing', except bird at Wando Genet, which was apparently 'Ethiopian Sawwing'
3Mostly 'Blue-headed' types, although a few 'Black headed'
4Much variation between areas, often changing very quickly: For example on drive north on 8th, changed from 'Dodson's', to 'Yellow-vented Common', to White-vented Common'
5Including one black 'Abyssinian Stonechat'
6Much variation in breast colour, ranging from yellow to white, including intergrades
7Birds at Wando Genet had very grey flanks and underparts
8Head pattern variable

Mammals 21/10 22/10 23/10 24/10 25/10 26/10 27/10 28/10 29/10 30/10 31/10 01/11 02/11 03/11 04/11 05/11 06/11 07/11 08/11 09/11 10/11 11/11
Mountain Nyala                 1   c.30                      
Salt's Dik-dik           c.15                                
Guenther's Dik-dik                           c.20 c.20 c.25 c.10 c.10 .c5      
Bohor Reedbuck                 1   1                      
Lesser Kudu           4                                
Oryx1                                   3        
Soemmerring's Gazelle               8                            
Thomson's Gazelle                                 c.15          
Gerenuk           8               10                
Ethiopian Wolf                   2                        
Black-backed Jackal                         1         1        
Golden Jackal                                 1          
African Wild Cat                 1                          
Warthog           c.20               3     1          
Gelada Baboon   c.200         c.10                              
Olive Baboon                 c.10       1 1                
Colybus Monkey                 4                     c.20 7  
Vervet Monkey2     1       c.10       8                 4    
Cape Hare               13   14                        
Yellow-spotted Hyrax               9 4                          
Rock Hyrax5   1                                        
Abyssinian Grass-rat         1                                  
Giant Molerat6                                        
Unstripped Ground-squirrel           1               1       1        
Gambian Sun-squirrel                                       1 1  
1Oryx (gazella) beisa
2A mixture of Grivets and intergrades with Vervets
3Presumed Ethiopian Hare (Lepus fagani)
4Presumed Ethiopian Highland Hare (Lepus starki)
5Ethiopian (Procavia habessinica)
6Other rats were also observed, probably either Blick's Grass-rat (Arvicanthis blicki) or Swamp Rat (Otomys typus)