Ethiopia - The Rift Valley Lakes

Volcanic Lake Bishoftu

We started the second leg of our adventure in Addis Ababa moving south into the Rift Valley to visit a number of the many fresh water lakes. Some are shallow and quite large, others are collapsed volcanic craters - small and deep. Our first day ended at Lake Langano where we birded the lake edge and surrounding forest for the next full day. The birding here so far has been exceptional, with 133 species on the first day and 119 on the second (47 new). WiFi here is slow and limited, so this post will have to be short. We move on to the high mountains tomorrow.

Sample bird lists:

eBird List 1
eBird List 2

Birding the forest near Lake Langano

Sunrise on Lake Langano

Lake Langano

Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill

African Harrier-Hawk

Barred Barbet

Black-billed_Barbet

Black-billed Wood-Hoopoe

Black-winged Lovebird

Blue-breasted Bee-eater

Blue-breasted Bee-eater

Brown-throated Wattle-eye

Green-winged Camaroptera

Grey-backed Fiscal

Mariqua Sunbird

Northern Fiscal

Rattling Cisticola

Senegal Thick-knee

Grey-cheeked Hornbill

Speckled Mousebird

Speckled Pigeon

Squaco Heron

Thick-billed Raven

Wattled Ibis

White-cheeked Turaco