A Few Scenery Pictures From The Gambia
Kaur Wetlands (Scroll right to see the whole panorama.)
Women walking through Kaur Wetlands
Women washing clothes in the Gambia River (Janjanbureh)
Fishing in the Gambia River
Western red colobus monkey (from a boat ride on the Gambia river, near Janjanbureh)
Baobab, also on the shore of the Gambia River
Baobab near the mouth of the Gambia River
Young Callithrix monkey at Senegambia Hotel
Birding speedbump
Sometimes getting the bird can be an adventure. (Thanks to Jack Poll for the photo!)
This was my view. Note our quick-thinking guide in the background, taking the above picture.
Our guide and trip leader, Jack Poll
Our bird pictures from around the world follow standard ecozones approximately but not exactly:
Birds from the USA and Canada: our house, Texas, California, Hawaii, Canada,
Neotropic birds from Central America and the Caribbean: Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago
Neotropic birds from South America: Ecuador, Brazil.
Western palearctic birds: Europe: Germany, Finland, Norway, Spain, the Canary Islands, Lesbos, Greece. Israel
Eastern palearctic birds: China
Birds from Africa: The Gambia, South Africa
Indo-Malayan birds from India
Birds from Australia, New Zealand.
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