Yellow-billed Kites, Addis Ababa

Yellow-billed Kites, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Over recent weeks I have been writing about the birds I saw in Ethiopia on a visit there last December. I’ve already written several posts about Yellow-billed Kites here and here.

Today I feature several more photos taken in the grounds of Bingham Academy in Addis Ababa, an international school where my daughter was teaching last year. There were always several dozen soaring over the campus or low over the ground. On many occasions I saw anything from a dozen to 20 or 30 feeding on the school oval. I can only assume they were catching insects and beetles stirred up during watering of the grass.

Yellow-billed Kites, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yellow-billed Kites, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yellow-billed Kites, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia