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some death-defying species from madagascar, my death defied and her extinction defied, yeah both in one trip

2009-08-11 - 9:56 p.m.

Today I spent doing the not particularly useful job of adding some photos to my phone album. Here are a couple of pictures that I never posted from Madagascar because I had so many that I took myself. My camera couldn't grab deep forest birds, though, so here are two photographed by Bill Clark, copyright to him 2007. I really need to have the Henst Goshawk in my diary, considering I nearly gave my life to get this bird on my life list, tee hee:
And let us not forget the purpose of the trip, to add the rediscovered Madagascar Serpent Eagle to the list. I'm one of the few tourists in this wicked world who can claim to have seen the bird with my own eyes:
Please, people, the photos on this page are, as I said, © 2007 to Bill Clark. Don't steal his photos, OK?

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