Friday 25 February. We left the motel soon after dawn and had a brief stop a few kms out of town where we saw our last 3 Stresemann’s Bush Crows and first Buff-bellied Warblers. It was then pretty much continual driving north to Awassa with little to enliven the journey although a Black Stork and 2 Bare-faced Go-away-birds were nice. We arrived at the United Africa Hotel early afternoon and had a couple of hours in and around the grounds there seeing 8 African Pigmy Geese, 4 Northern Carmine Bee-eaters, 2 Silvery-cheeked Hornbills, 3 Double-toothed Barbets, 2 Red-throated Wrynecks, 2 Western Black-headed Batis, Ethiopian Boubou and 2 Marsh Warblers. The rest of the afternoon was spent in Lake Awassa Park for our first decent array of African waterbirds including very 2 welcome but somewhat unexpected Allen’s Gallinules, Blue-headed Coucal, 4 Woodland, Pigmy, 12 Malachite and 10 Pied Kingfishers, Spotted Creeper and 15 Abyssinian Waxbills.
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| Stresemann's Bush Crow north of Yabello |
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| Northern Carmine Bee-eater at Awassa |
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| Red-throated Wryneck at Awassa |
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| African Pigmy Geeses at Awassa |
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| Marabou at Awassa |
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| African Fish Eagle at Awassa |
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| Spotted Creeper at Awassa |
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| Abyssinian Waxbill at Awassa |
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| Allen's Gallinule at Awassa |
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| Pigmy Kingfisher at Awassa |
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| Woodland Kingfisher at Awassa |
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