Photograph: Shane McInnes/TheWorldsRarestBirds
This image appeared in the Guardian (online) yesterday and for some reason it's kind of haunting me; I can't get it out of my head. The photo won the "Critically Endangered or Extinct in the Wild" category in an international photography competition run in support of the conservation project BirdLife International. The bird itself is a Kakapo, a big flightless parrot and one of the world's rarest of our feathered friends; there's believed to be only 124 alive today. Which is pretty awesome and terribly sad. And I think that's why the image is so haunting. It's also an amazing picture. See more Kakapo here.
Hey It's really a nice pic...
Posted by: Vikash Kumar | 16 February 2011 at 10:06 AM
reminds me of an amusing episode from BBC's "Last Chance to See" with Stephen Fry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: Jan | 18 February 2011 at 06:25 AM
A haunting video of a Kakapo in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A7uFSbRJ5w
Posted by: Justin | 20 February 2011 at 01:47 AM
Jan/Justin: Thanks for the links - hilarious.
Posted by: Richard | 20 February 2011 at 08:25 AM