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Foja Mountains 98 images Created 7 Oct 2013

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  • Male Yellow-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons) perched near his bower.
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  • Aerial view of the Foja Mountains rain forest.<br />
Natural clearing is the "bog" area used as a landing site for the expedition.
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  • A portrait of a bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus boreoclivus sp. nov.).<br />
A new species discovered by Paul Oliver at  1200 m elevation.
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  • Landing at Kwerba Village airstrip.  This village was used as the staging area by the expedition, which was lifted from here by helicopter into the mountains.
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  • Aerial view of the Foja Mountains rain forest.  Researcher Bruce Beehler on a helicoptor survey searching for possible landing sites.  Beehler was the main force behind biological exploration of the Foja Mountains on these expeditions.
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  • Long-tailed Pygmy-Possum (Cercartetus c.f. caudatus).  New range extention of species known from Central Cordillera.
    MM7441-070620-01214.jpg
  • Wattled Smoky Honeyeater (Melipotes carolae).  New species of bird discovered in Foja Mts. by Bruce Beehler.
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  • Aerial view of the Foja Mountains rain forest.
    MM7441-070618-00813.jpg
  • Moss detail in the bog.
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  • Aerial view of the Foja Mountains rain forest.
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  • Aerial view of the Foja Mountains rain forest.
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  • Salvadori's Teal (Anas waigiuensis) in the bog pond at 1650 m in the Foja Mountains.<br />
This is a rare duck found only in the mountains of New Guinea.
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  • A tree frog (Nyctimistes fluviatilis) on a leaf.
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  • Long-tailed Pygmy-Possum (Cercartetus c.f. caudatus).  Possible new species for the Foja Mts.
    MM7441-070620-01166.jpg
  • Aerial view of the Foja Mountains rain forest.
    MM7441-070618-00871.jpg
  • Aerial view of the Foja Mountains rain forest.<br />
Natural clearing is the "bog" area used as a landing site for the expedition.  Bog camp was located in the forest at the upper right edge of the clearing.
    MM7441-070618-00921.jpg
  • Cloud forest interior view with tree ferns.  Approx. 1700 m elev, Foja Mts.
    MM7441-070619-01064.jpg
  • Yellow-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons) female visiting a bower.
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  • Male Yellow-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons) male displaying to a female at his bower by holding a blue fruit in his bill and keeping on the opposite side of the bower from the female.
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  • Bruce Beehler has just captured a Wattled Smoky Honeyeater (Melipotes carolae), a new species of bird he discovered in the Foja Mts. in 2005.
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  • Foja Parotia Bird of Paradise (Parotia berlepschi) male.
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  • Berlepschi's Parotia Bird of Paradise (Parotia berlepschi) male.
    MM7441-070623-01877.jpg
  • A frog found in the Foja Mts. rain forest at night.  1650 m elev.<br />
July 2007 - unidentified
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  • Tree frog (Litoria arfakiana).<br />
In the Foja Mts near Bog Camp.  1650 m.
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  • Male Yellow-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons) displaying at his bower to a female visible on the other side of the bower.  (Bower 2007 #3 - Mountain Trail) June 2007
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