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Tringa glareola
Small wader, and smallest of the Shanks (genus Tringa). Brown-grey above with whitish fleckles; white below with yellowish legs. Long pale supercilium extends behind the eye.
This is a common Palearctic migrant, and present in freshwater wetlands of sub-Saharan Africa from August to May. Here, close to shores of Awassa lake in Ethiopia.
Lake Awassa (or Hawassa) is a part of main Ethiopian Rift Valley series of lakes, situated at some 1700 m of altitude. Like most of Rift lakes in Ethiopian highlands, this is an endorreic lake (landlocked mass of water having no outlet and not connected to the sea), and as such surrounded by marshes that regulate its levels through evaporation. Because of marshes and its forested shores, the lake is known as birdwatcher's paradise - very rich with various waders. Unfortunately, many of these marshes, or at least those of an easy access to visitors are very polluted by plastic garbage - mainly plastic bottles and bags...
Spotted on Nov 30, 2013
Submitted on Mar 5, 2018
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