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New Guinea 157 images Created 13 Aug 2015

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  • Early morning light in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.<br />
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Alfred Russel Wallace was doing fieldwork in Halmahera when he wrote his famous letter on his theory of Natural Selection which he sent to Darwin from Ternate.
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  • Early morning light in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Early morning light in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Morning light in the rain forest.  Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Hiri Island viewed from a volcanic rock beach on Ternate Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.
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  • Hiri Island viewed from a volcanic rock beach on Ternate Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.
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  • Blyth's Hornbill (Rhyiceros plicatus) male perched on a dead tree.
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) with a cicada prey.
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  • Edwin Scholes enjoys yet another meal of rice and instant noodles at our field camp at Labilabi, Halmahera.<br />
Alfred Russel Wallace spent a month at what was probably a similar field camp in Halmahera in 1858, when he wrote his famous essay on natural selection that he sent to Darwin.
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  • Full moon setting over Wasile Bay, Halmahera with pumpboat we used to travel from Foli to Labilabi along the Halmahera coast.<br />
Alfred Russel Wallace also travel around Halmahera by local boat.
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  • View of Volcanic peaks of Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia from the sea.
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  • Hiri Island north of Ternate, Indonesia.
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  • Mount Gamalama volcano, Ternate, Indonesia
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  • New Mosque under construction in Ternate, Indonesia
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  • Mount Gamalama volcano, Ternate, Indonesia
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  • Sunset light illuminates Mount Gamalama volcano - an active volcano on Ternate Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.<br />
Alfred Russel Wallace used this famous Spice Islands port as a base, and sent his famous letter to Darwin from this island.
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  • Sunset light illuminates Mount Gamalama volcano - an active volcano on Ternate Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.<br />
Alfred Russel Wallace used this famous Spice Islands port as a base, and sent his famous letter to Darwin from this island.
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  • Invisible Rail (also called Drummer Rail) (Habroptila wallacii) photographed in Foli Village, Halmahera, Indonesia.  <br />
This little known species is endemic to Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.  <br />
Captive bird captured by village boys of Foli and photographed outside the village.<br />
This species was discovered by and named after Alfred Russel Wallace.
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  • Invisible Rail (also called Drummer Rail) (Habroptila wallacii) photographed in Foli Village, Halmahera, Indonesia.  <br />
This little known species is endemic to Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.  <br />
Captive bird captured by village boys of Foli and photographed outside the village.<br />
This species was discovered by and named after Alfred Russel Wallace.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) mating sequence on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Orchid (Spathoglottis pacifica)
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  • unidentified frog.<br />
Halmahera.
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  • White-lipped Tree Frog (Litoria infrafrenata), also known as Australasian Giant Tree Frog.
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  • Caterpillar on leaf.
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  • Fan palm in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Macro shot of a fan palm in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Macro shot of a fan palm in the rain forest of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Layers of sedimentary rock exposed in a small rain forest creek on Halmahera Island, Indonesia.<br />
This area, know as "Batu Putih" meaning White Rock, produces milky sediments in the runoff.
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  • Rain forest interior view with lianas.<br />
Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Layers of sedimentary rock exposed in a small rain forest creek on Halmahera Island, Indonesia.<br />
This area, know as "Batu Putih" meaning White Rock, produces milky sediments in the runoff.
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  • Edwin Scholes and local guide Jun walk through a freshly cleared field in the rain forest of Halmahera
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  • Ferns in the understory of rain forest in Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Morning light in the rain forest.  Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Rufous-bellied Triller (Lalage aurea).<br />
Endemic to Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Rufous-bellied Triller (Lalage aurea).<br />
Endemic to Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Mount Gamalama volcano, Ternate, Indonesia
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus) in flight over rain forest in Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Fruits hang from a fruiting palm tree in a rain forest in Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Fan palms growing in the rain forest understory in Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Fruits hang from a fruiting palm tree in a rain forest in Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Fan palms growing in the rain forest understory in Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)
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  • Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
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  • Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
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  • A colorful fallen leaf in the rain forest of Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Flowering Costus plant.  (Costus sp.) in a rain forest clearing in Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)
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  • Halmahera villager climbing a tree using a foot strap made from rattan.
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  • This falling stick has pierced the leaf.
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  • Halmahera villager climbing a tree using a foot strap made from rattan.
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  • Fan palm details, Kali Batu Puti.
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  • Fan palm details, Kali Batu Puti
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  • Fan palm details, Kali Batu Puti
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  • Blyth's Hornbill (Rhyiceros plicatus) male perched on a dead tree.
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  • Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) with a cicada prey.
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  • Leaves of a liana.
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  • Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis) flock in the top of a leafless tree.
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  • Coconut Palms grown for copra line the coast of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Invisible Rail (also called Drummer Rail) (Habroptila wallacii) photographed in Foli Village, Halmahera, Indonesia.  <br />
This little known species is endemic to Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.  <br />
Captive bird captured by village boys of Foli and photographed outside the village.
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  • Invisible Rail (also called Drummer Rail) (Habroptila wallacii) photographed in Foli Village, Halmahera, Indonesia.  <br />
This little known species is endemic to Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia.  <br />
Captive bird captured by village boys of Foli and photographed outside the village.<br />
This species was discovered by and named after Alfred Russel Wallace.
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  • Bird of Paradise researcher Edwin Scholes descends from a canopy platform used to film Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise.
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  • Canopy platform constructed from poles and tied to trees with rattan vines - used by Tim Laman and Edwin Scholes for photographing and filming Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise.
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  • Orchid (Spathoglottis pacifica)
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  • A rain forest stream, Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • A rain forest stream, Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Moustached Tree-swift (Hemiprocne mystacea) on a perch in a rain forest clearing.  Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Olive-backed Sunbird (Nectarina jugularis)
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  • Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus) female in flight.
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  • Orchid (Spathoglottis pacifica)
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  • View of Wasile Bay, coast and mountains of Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
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  • Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
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  • Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
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  • unidentified frog.<br />
Halmahera.
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  • An orb-weaving spider on its web.
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  • Caterpillar on leaf.
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  • White-streaked Friarbird (Melitograis gilolensis).<br />
Endemic species to Halmahera Island, Indonesia.
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  • Moluccan Hanging-parrot (Loriculus amabilis) perched on a thin vine.
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  • Moluccan Hanging-parrot (Loriculus amabilis) perched on a thin vine.
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  • Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor)
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  • Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor)
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  • Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor)
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  • Sunrise near Foli Village, Halmahera.
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  • Setting full moon over Wasile Bay, Halmahera.
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  • Rainbow at sunrise near Foli Village, Halmahera.
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  • Tim Laman travels by pumpboat along the coast of Halmahera between sites searching for Wallace's Standardwing Bird of Paradise.
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  • Woman and girls walk on beach at Labilabi, Halmahera, Indonesia.
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  • Coconut plantation along coast at Labilabi Village, Halmahera, Indonesia.  Copra is the biggest crop here.
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  • Speedboat dock in Ternate, Indonesia.
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  • Mount Gamalama volcano, Ternate, Indonesia
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