Travel south to the forested hills of Wondo Genet where you can have lunch and spend the afternoon birding. Following years of unrestrained cutting the forest is now much reduced, though, it still holds small populations of a variety of desirable species.Four endemics may be found including Black-headed Forest Oriole, Yellowfronted Parrot, White-winged Cliff Chat and Golden-backed Woodpecker, whilst Half Collared Kingfisher, Spotted Creeper, African Hobby, Crowned Eagle and Olive Pigeons are amongst other specialities of the region

Birds are so very plentiful here that little energy is required in finding them. Amongst the lilies and great reedbeds that encompass lake Awassa you will find Black, Goliath and other herons, the comical Marabou Stork, Hamerkops, Hadeda Ibis, a variety of egrets, dainty African Pygmy Geese, Fulvous and White-faced Whistling Ducks, Knob-billed Duck, Black Crakes, African Jacanas, Three-banded Plovers, Whiskered and White-winged Black Terns and both Pied and Malachite Kingfishers. Nearby, in the mature acacia woodland, a host of landbirds complements this spectacle. Here you will search for Grey-headed and Woodland Kingfishers, Red-breasted Wrynecks, Green Wood-hoopoes, Sulphur-breasted Bush shrikes, White-browed Robin Chats, African Thrushes, Rufous Chatterers, Swamp Warblers, Red-faced Crombecs, Wattle-eyes, Puffbacks, Spotted Creepers, and many other colourful species.