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Stork? Bahia Dar, Ethiopia, Mar '16 (1 Viewer)

I would have said a member of the heron family personally - not an expert on the region, but Goliath Heron came to mind for me?
 
Thanks chaps, I suspect you're right. Having trouble reconciling the pale 'band' between neck and wing with any specific species, but that could just be the way the light is falling.

Either way, I think I can reconcile this to the 'doesnt really matter' basket.
 
Head is much too small for a hamerkop, and it appears to have a whitish throat. It's either purple or goliath heron.
 
why not Black-headed Heron as it's got such a big white throat? I suspect the colouration may be a lighting artefact
 
why not Black-headed Heron as it's got such a big white throat? I suspect the colouration may be a lighting artefact

I get your point, but basically you're saying that it's unidentifiable with which I agree. I think the bigness of the white throat is the artefact, for example, more than the colouration.
 
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