Images Dated 11th September 2006

WAT-13774 Tropical Rainforest - buttress roots on tree upstream from Puerto Maldonado

WAT-13774
Tropical Rainforest - buttress roots on tree upstream from Puerto Maldonado
Tambopata nature reserve. Peru
the Tambopata Nature Reserve (officially called the Tambopata-Candamo Reserve Zone, or TRZ) is a massive tract of humid subtropical rainforest in the department of Madre de Dios. The Peruvian government prohibited hunting and logging in the area in 1977 and created the Tambopata-Candamo Reserve Zone in 1990. Nearly one-third the size of Costa Rica, Tambopata has more species of birds (595) and butterflies (more than 1, 200) than any place of similar size on earth.
Arbre a contrefort. Foret tropicale
M. Watson
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Dark Bush-cricket - male resting on grass blade

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Dark Bush-cricket - male resting on grass blade
Lower Saxony, Germany
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Duncan Usher
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Bush Cricket, Bush Crickets, Cricket, Crickets, Europe, European, Germany, Insect, Insects, Male, Single, Wild Life

Long-tailed Finch - drinking at an overflowing cattle trough

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Long-tailed Finch - drinking at an overflowing cattle trough
near Mt Barnett, Gibb River Road, Kimberley, Western Australia
Poephila acuticauda hecki
Long-tailed Finches inhabit grasslands and open grassy woodlands but always within reach of water. From the Kimberley through Northern Territory and into western Queensland.
Don Hadden
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