Assessment of Bird Species Composition, Relative Abundance, and Distributions in East Gojjam Wetland Habitats, Ethiopia

Table 3

Distribution of bird species among the study sites during the study period.

Species		Plain wetland habitats
Common name	Scientific name	Chemoga	Sentera	Yewula	Yebasan and Des	Dechekes/Yejube
Sacred ibis	Threskiornis aethiopicus	+	+	+	+	+
Wattled ibis	Bostrychia carunculata	+	+	+	+	+
Hadada ibis	Bostrychia hagedash	+	+	+	+	+
Cape crow	Corvus capensis	+	+	+	+	+
Fan-tailed raven	Corvus rhipidurus	+	+	+	+	+
Thick-billed raven	Corvus crassirostris	+	+	+	+	+
Pied crow	Corvus albus	+	+	+	+	+
Black-winged stilt	Himantopus himantopus	+	+	+	+	+
Egyptian plover	Pluvianus aegyptius	+	+	+	+	+
Woolly-necked stork	Ciconia episcopus	+	+	+	+	+
Abdim’s stork	Ciconia abdimii	+	+	+	+	+
White stork	Ciconia ciconia	+	+	+	+	+
Egyptian goose	Alopochen aegyptiaca	+	+	+	+	+
Knob-billed duck	Sarkidiornis melanotos	+
Ruddy shelduck	Tadorna ferruginea	+
Black-headed heron	Ardea melanocephala	+	+	+	+	+
Little egret	Egretta garzetta	+	+	+	+	+
Great egret	Egretta alba	+	+	+	+	+
Hamerkop	Scopus umbretta	+	+	+	+	+
Red-billed oxpecker	Buphagus erythrorhynchus	+	+	+	+	+
Greater blue-eared starling	Lamprotornis chalybaeus		+
Rüppell’s starling	Lamprotornis purpuroptera		+	+
Lesser blue-eared starling	Lamprotornis chloropterus		+	+
Speckled pigeon	Columba guinea	+	+	+	+	+
White-collared pigeon	Columba albitorques	+	+	+	+
Blue-spotted wood dove	Turtur afer			+	+	+
Ring-necked dove	Streptopelia capicola	+	+	+
Red-eyed dove	Streptopelia semitorquata	+	+	+	+	+
African mourning dove	Streptopelia decipiens	+	+	+	+	+
Dusky turtle dove	Streptopelia lugens	+	+	+	+	+
Laughing dove	Streptopelia senegalensis	+	+	+	+	+
Wattled crane	Bugeranus carunculatus	+
Common crane	Grus grus	+
Black crowned crane	Balearica pavonina	+
Spot-breasted lapwing	Vanellus melanocephalus	+		+
Long-toed lapwing	Vanellus crassirostris	+	+	+	+
Spur-winged plover/lapwing	Vanellus spinosus	+	+	+	+	+
Black-winged plover	Vanellus melanopterus	+	+			+
Black-headed gull	Larus ridibundus	+	+			+
Gull-billed tern	Sterna nilotica	+	+	+	+	+
Whiskered tern	Chlidonias hybrid	+
Yellow-billed kite	Milvus (migrans) aegyptius				+
Black kite	Milvus migrans	+	+	+	+	+
Hooded vulture	Necrosyrtes monachus		+
Lappet-faced vulture	Torgos tracheliotus		+
White-backed vulture	Gyps africanus		+
Black-chested snake-eagle	Circaetus pectoralis	+	+	+	+	+
Augur buzzard	Buteo augur	+	+	+	+	+
Common buzzard	Buteo buteo	+	+	+	+	+
Tawny eagle	Aquila rapax	+	+
Little swift	Apus affinis	+	+	+	+	+
Nyanza swift	Apus niansae	+	+	+	+	+
Plain martin	Riparia paludicola	+
Common bulbul	Pycnonotus barbatus	+	+	+	+	+
Village weaver	Ploceus cucullatus	+	+	+	+	+
Red-billed firefinch	Lagonosticta senegala	+	+	+	+	+

+ indicates the species presence in the area; blanks indicate the species absence.