2 Days Menagesha Suba Forest

About Menagesha Suba Forest

Menagesha    suba   forest   which was   originally     protected    by  Zera Yacob (1399 – 26 August 1468) was the Emperor of Ethiopia the total area of the park is around 2500 hectare and the forest have a natural big trees like juniper us and Eric arboreal and  is one of the tourist destination for a day trip from Addis Ababa because of its remarkable natural indigenous tree species  and some endemic birds with some species mammals like endemic antelopes of Minilk Bushbuck

Menagesha -Suba ForestWelcome to Ethiopia, On arrival we will meet you at the airport then we will be driving to  Menagesha    suba   forest   which was   originally     protected    by  Zera Yacob (1399 – 26 August 1468) was the Emperor of Ethiopia the total area of the park is around 2500 hectare and the forest have a natural big trees like juniper us and Eric arboreal and  is one of the tourist destination for a day trip from Addis Ababa because of its remarkable natural indigenous tree species  and some endemic birds with some species mammals like endemic antelopes of Minilk Bushbuck.

Key biodiversity
See Box and Table 3 for key species. A total of 150 bird species has been recorded at this site, five of which are Ethiopian endemics, and many more are Afrotropical Highlands biome species. Of interest among the biome species are Bostrychia carunculataAgapornis tarantaTauraco leucotisLybius undatusZoothera piaggiaePseudoalcippe abyssinicaParophasma galinieriParus leuconotusOriolus monachaCorvus crassirostrisPoeoptera stuhlmanniOnychognathus tenuirostrisCinnyricinclus sharpiiCryptospiza salvadorii and Serinus nigriceps. Chilimo forest supports populations of many other important birds including Accipiter melanoleucusA. tachiroButeo buteoB. oreophilusAquila pomarinaA. verreauxii, the poorly known Kaupifalco monogrammicus and the forest specialist Stephanoaetus coronatus.

Non-bird biodiversity: The endemic Tragelaphus scriptus meneliki occurs. A significant number of Afro-montane endemic tree and shrub species occur at this site, along with the Ethiopian endemics Erythrina brucei, a tree species which occurs in more open and inhabited areas, and the shrub Acanthus sennii.