Bale Mountains National Park is an area of high altitude plateau that is broken by numerous spectacular volcanic plugs and peaks, beautiful alpine lakes and rushing mountain streams that descend into deep rocky gorges on their way to the lowlands below. As you ascend into the mountains you will experience changes in the vegetation with altitude, from juniper forests to heather moorlands and alpine meadows, which at various times of year exhibit an abundance of colourful wildflowers.
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Bale Mountains National Park is an area of high altitude plateau that is broken by numerous spectacular volcanic plugs and peaks, beautiful alpine lakes and rushing mountain streams that descend into deep rocky gorges on their way to the lowlands below. As you ascend into the mountains you will experience changes in the vegetation with altitude, from juniper forests to heather moorlands and alpine meadows, which at various times of year exhibit an abundance of colourful wildflowers.
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Birding in Ethiopia
Ethiopia provides habitat for more than 800 species of birds of these, 16 are wholly restricted to the political boundaries of the country and thus are endemics; fourteen other birds are shared with Eritrea. There are 214 Palarctic migrants occurring in Ethiopia, of these, 45 species have been found over- summer with the boundaries of the country, a large number of these birds have breeding population in Ethiopia.
I become a bird watcher since i was 12 years old, now i work as a freelace bird watching tour guide.
When i am in the field; i take pictures with my Nikon D-40 camera and i use a 200 mm lense.
This African mystery bird is special because it is found in Ethiopia This Ethiopian mystery bird is easy to identify to genus, and I think most of you can identify the species as well. Since it's so easy to ID, I thought I'd add a layer of challenge to this by asking you to tell me what character makes this species special?
