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Ethiopia

Where bird photos, recordings, and videos are documented in Ethiopia.

Snapshot: 20 Sept 2026Metadata onlyNot bird abundance
Catalog media assets
110,174
+746 since previous
Species represented
953
-113 since previous
Audio recordings
2,916
2.6% of country media
Dated records
99.8%
109,900 of 110,174 dated

How the media archive grew

Cumulative catalog metadata for Ethiopia by field year since 2000. A record is counted under the year its subject was observed, not the year it was uploaded.

Media archive over time

Cumulative catalog metadata by observation year
Ethiopia
Earliest dated record from 1965. Peak completed field year: 2019 (18,567 media records).

What’s in the archive?

Catalog media by modality
Photos
104,81195.1%
Audio
2,9162.6%
Video
2,4472.2%

Sound recordings by field year

Annual audio metadata from 2000 onward
Complete field years2026 (partial)
2,703 sound records in the chart window92.7% of 2,916 country audio records; the remainder predates 2000 or lacks a usable field year · 2026 is partial

Bioacoustic spotlight

#5 of 9 by sound records in East Africa
6.8%
Regional sound share
35.9 : 1
Photo-to-audio ratio

For every sound recording, there are 35.9 photos. Field audio provides vital acoustic documentation.

Latest snapshot through 20 Sept 2026.

Species and field years

Which species the country's catalog covers most, and when those records were made.

Most documented species (5)

Ranked by catalog media records in Ethiopia
  1. 1

    Marabou Stork

    Leptoptilos crumenifer

    964
  2. 2

    Hooded Vulture

    Necrosyrtes monachus

    808
  3. 3

    Ethiopian Bee-eater

    Merops lafresnayii

    761
  4. 4

    Blue-winged Goose

    Cyanochen cyanoptera

    753
  5. 5

    Wattled Ibis

    Bostrychia carunculata

    723
Frequently photographed species may dominate. Counts reflect documentation effort, not bird abundance.

Recent field years

Latest 10 field years represented
20176.8K
201810K
201918.6K
20203.2K
20214K
20224.7K
20236.4K
20247.4K
202512.9K
2026partial8K
2026 is incomplete; records counted through 20 Sept 2026.

Who made the recordings

Contributors behind Ethiopia's audio, and where the recordings themselves can be played.

Top audio contributors (8)

Most recordings this snapshot
01PB
Peter Boesman288 species
960audio
02AS
Andrew Spencer314 species
572audio
03PR
Pam Rasmussen201 species
401audio
04LM
Linda Macaulay115 species
187audio
05AL
Alexis Lamek63 species
135audio
06BH
Brian Henderson65 species
95audio
07JS
Jerred Seveyka37 species
95audio
08JD
Josep del Hoyo58 species
75audio

Ethiopia on eBird

The recordings and photographs themselves

This page reports the catalog metadata. The media files live in the Macaulay Library and are browsable by country on eBird.

eBird & Macaulay Library · collected 20 Sept 2026 · metadata only

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