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Photo highlights of Uganda

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Bwindi orphans group children doing traditional dances and songs

Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata)

Large African elephant (Loxodonta africana)

African fish eagle

Swarms of lake flies in a garden near Lake Victoria

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) feeding on canopy fruit

Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)

Mountain near Kasese in Western Uganda

Silverback Bwindi gorilla

Rainforest tree leaf

Waterfall in Bwindi

Green bush viper (Atheris species)

Headshot of the colorful blue-headed tree agama (Acanthocerus atricollis)

Young vervet monkey standing upright

Bwindi children, many of whom are AIDS orphans, performing traditional songs and dances

Chimp tracking guide holding a fallen rainforest fruit

Lake Nyinambuga, a crater lake in western Uganda

Tea plantation on the rolling hills of Uganda

Juvenile Elliott's Chameleon

Sundown over the Kazinga Channel

Colorful butterflies feeding on minerals in a dirt road

Serval cat (Leptailurus serval)

Male waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus)

Sun peaking out from under some clouds above the Kazinga Channel

Rainforest in Chambura Gorge

Warthog feeding from its knees

Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Kazinga Channel

Savanna of Queen Elizabeth National Park

Tea workers

Large hippo

Silverback Bwindi gorilla (headshot)

Uganda kob "kissing"

Warthog running

Tree climbing lion (Panthera leo)

Blue-headed tree agama (Acanthocerus atricollis)

Pair of Grey crowned cranes "kissing"

Ancient Leopard Tortoise (Geochelone pardalis)

Euphorbia forest in Uganda

Elephant with baby emerging from vegetation

Fast-flowing creek forming the border of Bwindi park

Great White Pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus)

Red wasp feeding on white flowers

Lake Kyemengo in western Uganda

Woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) perched on a branch

Charging hippo

Tea plantation lying at the foot of Bwindi rain forest

Female Blue-headed Tree Agama (Acanthocerus atricollis)

Gorilla tracker in Bwindi

Bwindi orphans group children singing and dancing

Red-orange flowers

Climbing tree lion of Ishasha

In search of gorillas in Bwindi

Euphorbia trees on the savanna

Long-crested Eagle, Lophaetus occipitalis, perched on a tree stump

Red duiker in the Bwindi rainforest

Banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) in a group of mongoose

Pair of Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)

Male vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops)

Haze rising in the western Uganadan countryside with the Rwenzori mountains in the background

Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) in a treetop

Maroon and white vine flower

African fish eagle

Cinnamon-chested bee-eater (Merops oreobates)

Eastern Black and White Colobus Monkeys

Yellow weavers at breakfast

Great cormorants, Pink-backed pelicans, Great white pelicans on a Lake Edward/Kazinga Channel beach

Egyptian Goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus

Black and yellow butterfly

African elephant charging toward us

Eastern gorilla (Gorilla gorilla sp) in Bwindi

Agricultural land outside Bwindi park

Bwindi orphans group children doing traditional dances and songs

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