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 Staff photo index
 
 Last update: 2017-07-27
 
 
    
		        
		            
		            
		                 Ploceus aurantius guarding its nest (Uganda)
 
		                 Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) perched in tree (Gabon)
 
		                 Hadada ibis (Bostrychia hagedash) (Gabon)
 
		                 Headshot of a pair of grey crowned cranes (Uganda)
 
		                 Many birds in flight in the Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Hadada ibis in a swamp in Gabon (Gabon)
 
		                 Many birds in flight in the Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Bird species in Loango lagoon (Gabon)
 
		                 Piping hornbill, Bycanistes fistulator sharpii (Gabon)
 
		                 Flock of white and gray birds in Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Flock of white and gray birds in Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Male yellow-backed weaver (Ploceus melanocephalus) (Uganda)
 
		                 Weaver bird colony in a palm tree (Gabon)
 
		                 Flock of white and gray birds in Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 African darter (Anhinga rufa) perched in a tree (Gabon)
 
		                 Many birds in Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Flock of white and gray birds in Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Male weaver perched on a papyrus stem (Uganda)
 
		                 Grey-backed Fiscal, Lanius excubitoroides, in the savanna (Uganda)
 
		                 Yellow bird (Gabon)
 
		                 Many birds in flight in the Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Piping Hornbill in flight and silhouetted by the sky (Gabon)
 
		                 Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) in flight (Gabon)
 
		                 Waterbirds with a Kazinga Channel village in the background (Uganda)
 
		                 Pair of great blue turacos (Gabon)
 
		                 African darter (Anhinga rufa) taking flight (Gabon)
 
		                 Weaver bird (Ploceus aurantius) guarding its nest (Uganda)
 
		                 Vieillot's black weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus nigerrimus) working on a nest (Gabon)
 
		                 Pair of white-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata) (Gabon)
 
		                 Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) (Uganda)
 
		                 Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) perched in a tree (Gabon)
 
		                 Hamerkop in flight (Gabon)
 
		                 Woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) perched in a tree (Uganda)
 
		                 Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) in a tree (Uganda)
 
		                 Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata) on a papyrus stalk (Uganda)
 
		                 Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) perched in tree (Gabon)
 
		                 African jacana (Actophilornis africana) on riverbank (Gabon)
 
		                 Pair of white-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata) in Loango National Park (Gabon)
 
		                 Many birds in flight in the Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Blue-breasted kingfisher (Halcyon malimbica malimbica) (Gabon)
 
		                 Grey-headed kingfisher, Halcyon leucocephala, in flight (Uganda)
 
		                 Palm-nut Vulture, Gypohierax angolensis,  atop a Euphorbia plant (Uganda)
 
		                 Many birds in flight in the Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima) (Gabon)
 
		                 Pied Kingfisher, Ceryle rudis, with a fish in its mouth (Uganda)
 
		                 African blue-flycatcher (Elminia longicauda) (Uganda)
 
		                 Headshot of Shoebill (Uganda)
 
		                 Many birds in flight in the Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Piping hornbill, Bycanistes fistulator sharpii (Gabon)
 
		                 Many birds in flight in the Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Blue-breasted bee-eater (Merops variegates variegatus) (Gabon)
 
		                 Piping hornbill, Bycanistes fistulator sharpii, feeding on palm fruit (Gabon)
 
		                 Long-tailed or reed cormorant (Phalacrocorax africanus) on the Mpivie river (Gabon)
 
		                 Pair of Pied Kingfishers, one holding a minnow in its beak (Uganda)
 
		                 Birds in flight over QENP (Uganda)
 
		                 Piping hornbill perched on tree limb (Gabon)
 
		                 Immature blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) (Uganda)
 
		                 Crane in oceanside lagoon (Gabon)
 
		                 Male copper sunbird (Uganda)
 
		                 Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) in Gabon (Gabon)
 
		                 Male copper sunbird (Cinnyris cuprea) (Uganda)
 
		                 Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) wading in duckweed (Uganda)
 
		                 Flock of white and gray birds in Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Blue-breasted bee-eater (Merops variegates variegatus) (Gabon)
 
		                 Red-necked Francolin in grass (Uganda)
 
		                 A group of African skimmers (Rynchops flavirostris) on a mudflat (Gabon)
 
		                 Blue-breasted bee-eater (Merops variegates variegatus) (Gabon)
 
		                 Piping hornbill feeding on palm fruit (Gabon)
 
		                 Purple heron (Ardea purpurea) in flight (Gabon)
 
		                 Swallow with yellow collar (Gabon)
 
		                 African crowned crane from East Africa (Uganda)
 
		                 Yellow-billed stork in flight over savanna (Gabon)
 
		                 Yellow-billed stork (Mycteria ibis) taking flight (Gabon)
 
		                 Vieillot's black weaver nesting (Uganda)
 
		                 White-throated blue swallow (Hirundo nigrita) (Gabon)
 
		                 Duckish bird (Gabon)
 
		                 Grey-headed kingfisher in flight (Uganda)
 
		                 Orange weaver bird guarding its nest (Uganda)
 
		                 Bird with black back, red chest, and heavy white beak (Uganda)
 
		                 Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) nest (Gabon)
 
		                 Many birds in flight in the Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Vieillot's black weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus nigerrimus) working on a nest (Gabon)
 
		                 Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata) in a papyrus swamp (Uganda)
 
		                 African darter perched in bush (Gabon)
 
		                 African skimmers (Rynchops flavirostris) and other birds in Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Black and white and gray bird (Uganda)
 
		                 Blue-eyed grey crowned crane (Uganda)
 
		                 Blue-breasted bee-eater (Merops variegates variegatus) (Gabon)
 
		                 Casmerodius albus egret (Gabon)
 
		                 Pair of orange weaver birds nesting (Uganda)
 
		                 Male orange weaver bird (Uganda)
 
		                 Blue-breasted kingfisher (Halcyon malimbica malimbica) (Gabon)
 
		                 Great White Egret (Casmerodius albus) (Gabon)
 
		                 African gray parrot (Gabon)
 
		                 Wooly-necked storks (Ciconia episcopus) (Gabon)
 
		                 Bird with black back, red chest, and heavy white beak (a type of seedcracker? Or barbet) (Uganda)
 
		                 Piping hornbill (Gabon)
 
		                 Eagle nest in canopy tree (Gabon)
 
		                 African darter taking flight in Loango NP (Gabon)
 
		                 Pair of Pied Kingfishers, Ceryle rudis, sharing a fish (Uganda)
 
		                 Red-billed quela (Quela quela) flock (Uganda)
 
		                 Purple heron (Ardea purpurea) in flight over a stand of papyrus (Gabon)
 
		                 Male Yellow-backed weaver (Uganda)
 
		                 Hadeda ibis (Bostrychia hagedash) in a tree (Uganda)
 
		                 African skimmers (Rynchops flavirostris) (Gabon)
 
		                 Piping Hornbill silhouette (Gabon)
 
		                 Woodland kingfisher with Rwenzoris in background (Uganda)
 
		                 Yellow-billed stork in a savanna water hole (Gabon)
 
		                 Pair of Ploceus aurantius weaver birds nesting (Uganda)
 
		                 Grey-backed Fiscal, Lanius excubitoroides (Uganda)
 
		                 White-throated blue swallow (Hirundo nigrita) (Gabon)
 
		                 Pair of Crowned hornbills (Tockus alboterminatus) atop tree (Uganda)
 
		                 Breeding male Village Weaver bird on a beach in Ombue, Gabon (Gabon)
 
		                 Flock of white and gray birds in Loango estuary (Gabon)
 
		                 Male weaver bird building a nest in a papyrus plant (Uganda)
 
		                 Bird nest (Gabon)
 
		                 Crowned hornbill (Tockus alboterminatus) in treetop (Uganda)
 
		                 Blue-breasted kingfisher (Halcyon malimbica malimbica) (Gabon)
 
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