Site Report: Lake Ziway

Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)

Little Stint (Calidris minuta)

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) - 3rd Winter

Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)

Another Rift Valley Lake with plenty of papyrus swamps and a fish market.

2011-01-15: We made one last stop before the long drive to Awash. We arrived at the fish market to find a number of storks and pelicans being fed. Barbara was trying to take a photo of me next to a Maribou Stork, but every time I got anywhere near the stork, some boy threw fish guts at it because I guess what we really wanted was to see the stork eating. Anyway, the visit was a pretty short one because this guy started following us around despite our obvious attempts to get away from the feeding activity.

Kingdom: Animals (10 records)

Phylum: Chordates (10 records)

Class: Birds (10 records)

Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Eurasian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)

Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (1 record)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Malachite Kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus)

Order: Pelicans (6 records)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
- Family: Pelicans
- Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)
- Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
- Family: Storks
- Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis)
- Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer)

Order: Shorebirds and Allies (2 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
- Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)