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Subject: [Leica] Photos of Kaziranga
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Wed Feb 13 15:38:08 2008
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Wow, Jayanand, a fascinating group of photos. Marvellous wildlife. It must 
be quite an adventure to visit the park. My favourites
are that buffalo 'up close and personal' and the 'changeable hawk eagle'. 
The buffalo shot is enough to send chills up your spine if
you were in the grass with it.

Cheers
Geoff

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Subject: [Leica] Photos of Kaziranga

I have just returned from Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, a World
Heritage Site, in the state of Assam in the North East of India. The park,
probably the best run in India,  holds around 75% of the worlds surviving
population of the Greater One Horned Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros
Unicornus), as well as other threatened mammals (15 in the IUCN Red List)
like the Tiger, Wild Buffalo and Barasingha or Swamp Deer. It is also home
to 420 different birds. It is situated on the banks of a great, untamable
river, the Brahmaputra. The ecology is based on the river flooding most of
the park every monsoon - the animals go to higher ground within the park -
and so with rich river silt being renewed yearly, most of the vegetation is
'Elephant Grass' which can grow as high as 25 feet. With such vegetation,
the park is home to oversized herbivores such as the Elephant, Rhino and
Buffalo, which are massive and have no real need to hide, and so animal
sightings are frequent and plenty, which is not always true of India's
wildlife parks in general. The flip side is that the grass provides terrific
cover for predators, so they are extremely difficult to see. The animals and
birds are also not skittish and are tolerant of humans at close distances,
proof again of an effectively managed sanctuary.

Equipment used was the Nikon D70 with the 80-400VR, or the Nikon D40X with
the 18-200VR (from elephant back 200mm is almost too much!)

Here are some of the photographs:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand_001/kaziranga/

As usual, comments and criticism welcome.

Cheers

Jayanand

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