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Project ornithologists carried tape recorders as well as binoculars to identify birds in the dense forest. Some of the most recognizable calls came from parrots and kingfishers (white-bellied kingfisher), two of 455 kinds of birds found in the Gamba Complex. Ward used "lots of patience and encouragement," he says, to get his avian subjects to pose in the right place.

Portraits in the Wild

In an unexplored region of Africa's Atlantic coast, an innovative photographer captures Gabon's bountiful wildlife
October 2003 | By Laura Tangley


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