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Images from the Colombian Amazon

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These " Images from the Colombian Amazon " were taken during a 2007 trip to Colombia.

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Colombian Green iguana (Iguana iguana) on a tree trunk in the Amazon


Orange and black insect


Looking up at a canopy platform in a Kapok tree


Brown and green beetle


The canopy of the Amazon rainforest


Bromeliad in the Amazon rain forest canopy


Bromeliads in the Amazon rain forest canopy


Anole lizard in the Amazon rainforest canopy


Rainforest canopy walkway in Colombia


Red flowers of a bromeliad in the Amazon rainforest canopy


Platform in the rainforest canopy


Flooded forest in the Amazon


Woolly monkeys


Amazon meadow


Flotsam in the Amazon river


Red and brown butterfly


Forest green centipede with yellow legs and dark red antenna


Amazon spider


Giant black and red tarantula in the Amazon rainforest


Brown spider


Bright green caterpillar displaying its toxic spines in the Amazon rainforest


Orange and yellow beetle




Lead toad among leaf litter


Butterfly with clear wings and false eye-spots


Green grasshopper eating a banana leaf


Close-up on a leaf grasshopper


Rainbow grasshopper


Multi-colored grasshoppers


White insect with light orange spots


Brown leaf katydid


Caterpillar with an orange head and yellow-white and black bands


Woolly monkey hanging upside down


Green anaconda near a river edge in the Amazon


Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) in Colombia


Borugo (Agouti taczanowskii) in the Colombian Amazon


Harpy Eagle, Harpia harpyja


Harpy eagle, profile head shot


Jaguar (Panthera onca)


Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)


Victoria amazonica water lilies in the Amazon


White flower blossom of Victoria amazonica


Emerging Victoria amazonica leaf


Organic solar cell


Buttress roots of an Amazon rainforest tree


Black, orange, and light blue butterfly


Black dragonfly with red posterior parts (abdominal segments)


Brown cockroach with yellow and black markings


Green dragonfly with alternating green and black abdominal segments


Brown moth with light yellow markings on its wings


Flooded forest in Colombia


Towering Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon


Ranch along the Amazon river


Green macaw


Rainforest meadow in the Amazon near Puerto Nari�o


Deforestation for cattle pasture in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia


Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest


White insect with black spots and an orange head


Golden-eyed tree frog near Puerto Nari�o


Green Katydid near Puerto Nari�o


Rasberry dragonfly


Colombian Ocelot


Overhead view of forest clearing in the Colombian Amazon










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