DURATION : 03 DAYS
TRANSPORTATION : SURFACE
DESTINATION :AWASH PARK
DAY 01 :
Awash Park is located in the central part of the rift, spanning across the southern tip of the Afar Region and the northeastern corner of the Shewa zone of Oromia. Drive via Ankober massifs and Melka Ghebdu river, where we expect the endemic Yellow-throated Seedeater, Yellow-breasted Barbet, Half-collared Kingfisher, Giant Kingfisher, Grey-headed Kingfisher, African Orange-bellied Parrot, Fork-tailed Drongo, Jacobin Cuckoo, Eastern Grey Plantain-eater, African Collared Dove, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver, Egyptian Vulture, Ruppell’s Weaver, Superb Starling, White-browed Sparrow-weaver, White-headed Buffalo Weaver, African Palm Swift, Slender-tailed Nightjar, Dusky Nightjar, Buff-bellied Warbler, Black-throated, Northern White-crowned Shrike, Red-fronted Barbet and Black-billed Barbet.
DAY 02 :
Ali Deghe plains and dry thorny woodlands are important for Arabian Bustard, Somali Ostrich, Somali Bulbul, Abyssinian Roller, Lilac-breasted Roller, Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill, Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Von der Decken’s Hornbill, Gillett’s Lark, White-backed Vulture, Swallow-tailed Kite, Ashy Cisticola, Chestnut-bellied and Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, Abyssinian Roller, Rufous-Crowned Roller, Red-winged Lark, Flappet Lark, Tawny Pipit, Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark and Black-headed Plover
The Awash riverside fig trees and acacia woodlands by the Awash Water Falls support the Ruppell’Starling, Bruce’s Green Pigeon, White-bellied Go-Away-Bird, Eastern Grey Plantain-eater, Slaty-colored Boubou, African Grey Hornbill, Northern Red-billed Hornbill, Black-billed Wood-hoopoe, Eurasian Hoopoe, Ring-necked Dove, Blue-spotted Wood-dove, Namaqua Dove, Black-billed Barbet, Black-headed Batis, Grey Headed Batis, Woodland Kingfisher, Striated Heron, Senegal Thick-knee, Yellow-necked Spurfowl and Crested Francolin.
DAY 03 :
Exploring the Ilala Sala plains and acacia thickets, sheltering Buff-crested Bustard, White-bellied Bustard, Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse, Four-banded Sandgrouse, Pallid Harrier, Montagu’s Harrier, Somali Bunting, Grey Wren-warbler, Tawny-flanked Prinia, Abyssinian Scimitarbill, Cut-throat Finch, Rosy-patched Bush-shrike, Orange-breasted Bush-shrike, Grey-headed Bush-shrike, Cardinal Woodpecker, Red-fronted Tinkerbird, Marico Sunbird, Beautiful Sunbird, Nile Valley Sunbird, Long-tailed Paradise Whydah, Pin-tailed Whydah, Straw-tailed Whydah, Green-winged Pytilia, African Collared Dove, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Star-spotted Nightjar, Little Bee-eater, White-throated Bee-eater, Olive Bee-eater, Northern Carmine Bee-eater, White-browed Scrub Robin, Rufous Scrub Robin, Singing Cisticola, Mouse-colored Penduline-tit, Yellow-spotted Petronia, Bush Petronia, Pale Rockfinch, White-browed Sparrow-weaver, Red-billed Buffalo Weaver, Lesser Masked Weaver, Vitelline Masked Weaver, Crimson-rumped Waxbill and Red-billed Quelea.
Lake Basaka of alkaline wetland feeds and shelters Common Sandpiper, Wood sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Three-banded Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Temmink’s Plover, Little Stint, Temmink’s Stint, Saddle-billed Stork, Yellow-billed Stork, Greater and Lesser Flamingo, African Darter, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Purple Heron and more. The Mt Fentale hillside volcano lava rocks with scattered shrubs inhabit the endemic Sombre Rock Chat, Blackstart, Yellow-breasted Barbet, Bristle-crowned Starling, Fan-tailed Raven, Red-fronted Warbler, African Silverbill and Red-billed firefinch.
Animals: Oryx Beisa, Lesser Kudu, Soemmering’s Gazelle, Salt’s Dick-dick, Hammadryas Baboon, Anubis Baboon, Vervet Monkey, common Jackal, Abyssinian Hare and Warthog. In the afternoon drive back to Addis Ababa.
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