Photography by Tim Laman/National Geographic
Greater Bird-of-Paradise ~ Paradisaea apoda:
Wokam Island, Aru Islands, 21 September 2010
Predawn mist rises from the rain forest canopy as a lone adult male, display plumes raised, scans his domain, waiting for an early morning encounter with a female.
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