Blue-headed Coucal

Blue-headed Coucal Centropus monachus monachus. Lake Awasa, Ethiopia. November.

Mantled guereza

Mantled guereza Colobus guereza matschiei. Jumping, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest NP. Uganda. Setember.

Slender-tailed Nightjar

Slender-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus clarus. Awasa lake. November.

Bruce’s Green-pigeon

Bruce’s Green-pigeon Treron waalia. Dola Mena, Ethiopia, november.

Namaqua Dove

Namaqua Dove Oena capensis. Male. Road from Windhoek to Walvis Bay, Namibia.

White-winged Collared-dove

White-winged Collared-dove Streptopelia reichenowi. Dawa River. Ethiopia.

Red-eyed Dove

Red-eyed Dove Streptopelia semitorquata. Portrait. Mahango reserve. Namibia.

Mourning Collared-dove

Mourning Collared-dove Streptopelia decipiens ambigua. Zambezi river, border Namibia. November.

Dusky Turtle-dove

Dusky Turtle-dove Streptopelia lugens. Close view taking branches for nest.

African Olive-pigeon

African Olive-pigeon Columba arquatrix. Himeville. South Africa. October.

White-collared Pigeon

White-collared Pigeon Columba albitorques. Standing. Sululta Plains. Ethiopia.

Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea

Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea phaeonota. Display. Namibia. November.

Coturnix Quails

Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica. Migrating bird. Yehliu, Taiwan. 26/10/2010

Francolins

Hartlaub’s Francolin Pternistis hartlaubi. Male, Erongo NWR. November.

Guineafowl

Southern Crested Guineafowl Guttera edouardi. Ndumo Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal. October.

Goliath Heron

Goliath Heron Ardea goliath. On a river bank.

African Pygmy-goose

African Pygmy-goose Nettapus auritus. Landing. Kalizo, close to Zambezi River.

Spur-winged Goose

Spur-winged Goose Plectropterus gambensis. In flight. Awasa Lake. november.

Ruddy Shelduck

Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea. With Marbled Teal  Marmaronetta angustirostris. April

Egyptian Goose

Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiacus. Landing. Feral population in Aiguamolls de l'Empordà.

Blue-winged Goose

Blue-winged Goose Cyanochen cyanopterus. In flight.

Grant's gazelle

Grant's gazelle Nanger granti. In the rain. Soda. November.

Pink-backed Pelican

Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens: standing with a Grey Heron. Santa Lucia. October.

Great White Pelican

Great White Pelican  Pelecanus onocrotalus: about to land next to a fisherman.

Great Cormorant

Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo maroccanus. Coast of Western Sahara

Pallid Harrier

Female second year. April.

Ethiopia Warblers 11/2012

African Reed-warbler Acrocephalus baeticatus  cinnamomeus around Awasha lake.

Weavers of Ethiopia

White-headed Buffalo-weaver Dinemellia dinemelli. Jemmu Valley.

White-backed Black Tit

White-backed Black Tit Parus leuconotus. Bale Mountains NP. Ethiopia. 21/11/2012.

Ruff

Ruff, Philomachus pugnax, Norway, june.

Ethiopian turacos (nov/2012)

White-bellied Go-away-bird Corythaixoides leucogaster

Ostrich (Struthio camelus & Struthio molybdophanes)

Struthio (camelus) molybdophanes, "Somali Ostrich".  Lake Abillata, Ethiopia, 11/2012

Orthodox ceremony in Lalibela.

Orthodox ceremony in Lalibela. Ethiopia. 30/11/2012.

Lineated pytilia

Lineated Pytilia Pytilia lineata.

Respect for wildlife in Ethiopia

Awasa fish market. November 2012

Arabian Bustard

Arabian bustard (Ardeotis arabs),  Awash NP Ethiopia

Fan-tailed Raven

Foxy Lark

Borana herdsman

Borana herdsman, Soda, Oromia region, Ethiopia. 2012.