Birdwatching

 

There are over 50 species of birds to watch, including

  • Lammergeyer (Gypaetus barbatus)

  • Thick-billed raven (carvus crassivostris)

  • Harwood francolin (francolin harwoodi)

  • Spot breasted plover (vanellus melanoce phallus)

  • Abyssinian long claw (macronyx flavor collis)

  • Black-headed siskin (serinus nigriceps)

  • White-tailed swallow (hirundo megaensis)

  • Ankober serin (serinus xantholasmiss)

  • Abyssinian woodpecker (dendropacos abyssinicus)

  • White-cheeked turaco (touraco leucotis)

  • Wattled ibis (bostrychia carunculata)

The Lammergeyer (left) has a 3 metre wingspan and interesting feeding habits, taking large bones into the sky and dropping them onto the rocks in order to get at the tasty bone marrow.
 

 
   

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