PHOTO OF THE DAY January 24, 2005  

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Where Loango National Park, Gabon
When 2004
Photographer Michael Nichols

Rosy bee-eaters perform a mating dance on the shores of Loango National Park. The birds gather here by the thousands to dig their nests.

(Text adapted from "Gabon's Loango National Park: In the Land of the Surfing Hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)


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