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The Dove Who Came In From the Cold

10,000 Birds

Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a Rock Pigeon perched on top of the elephants in the Hall of African Mammals, safely out of the elements and unexposed to Central Park’s hawks. Not in any espionage sense. The pigeon seemed very comfortable.

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Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

This image is from Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park, Uganda. He discovered numerous new species for science including this barbet and was the first person to confirm the existence of both Gorillas and Pygmies. Gray-throated Barbet is one of the plainer members of the African Barbet family.

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