Highly Honored Winner in Nature's Best Competition

Lesser Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea minor) male displaying high in the rain forest canopy at his display site (lek).

Tim has  been highly honored in the Birds Category of Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards 2013.  His picture of the displaying lesser bird-of-paradise captured the attention of the judges.  This picture was taken in the Vogelkop Peninsula in West Papua, Indonesia.  The winning images will be on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. this fall.