PHOTO OF THE DAY September 22, 2005  

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Where Loango National Park, Gabon, Africa
When 2003
Photographer Michael K. Nichols

Viewed by a paraglider-riding photographer, a fish eagle soars over a lagoon.

Fish eagles most often inhabit African rivers, lakes, coastal lagoons and estuaries south of the Sahara. Fish are their main sources of food, especially catfish and lungfish. In some cases they also eat other waterbirds or their young.

—Photograph from "In the Land of the Surfing Hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine


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