Photograph of Raggiana Bird-of-paradise

Funny, how on many birding trips the 'bird-of-the-trip' is a mammal! It could be Gorilla or Chimpanzee in Uganda, where this wonderful image was captured in Kibale Forest National Park by Francesco Veronesi. The Chimpanzees have long been habituated to human visitors in Kibale and are fairly easy to see there.


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Photograph of Common Dolphins

A beautiful image of Common Dolphins taken by Graham Ekins in New Zealand.

'There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still'

Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, first published in 1854.