Lamington, Queensland, Australia

Australian King-parrot (Alisterus scapularis), male. This large and handsome parrot is quite common in forested areas in eastern Australia. Female is green: see here.

suom: australiankuningaskaija (Alisterus scapularis)

Lamington, Queensland, Australia

This is a female Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). The male is entirely dark metallic blue. The species is famous for the bower the male builds for courtship. The female can be confused with the similarly green and robust Green Catbird, which is another species of bowerbird.

suom: satiinilavastaja (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

Lamington, Queensland, Australia

Yellow-throated Scrubwren (Sericornis citreogularis) is an acanthizid or Australasian wren living in the forest bottom in Queensland and most of New South Wales.

suom: keltakurkkumaluri (Sericornis citreogularis)

Shagarab, Sudan

A kiosk at the refugee camp of mainly Eritrean refugees in Shagarab, eastern Sudan.

Kassala province, Sudan

The nations of Eastern Sudan, the Beja and the Rashaida, are renowned camel herders. Here camels have been brought to a waterhole for drinking.

Khartum, Sudan

Djinns… and a flying lonely head. Some of the horrors to wait for in the Ghost House of the amusement park.

Khartum, Sudan

Children and balloons in al-Mughran Family Park in Khartum.

Khartum, Sudan

A mosque and relaxed young people in the Mughran Family Park in Khartum.

Omdurman, Sudan

The shrine at the Mahdi’s grave in Omdurman, Sudan. The Mahdi’s emergence, capture of most of Sudan and finally Khartum in the 1880s, and subsequent rule in Sudan was one of the first times when Africans managed to reconquer their lands from European colonial powers, but the Mahdi movement also posed a fundamental threat to the contemporary Islamic world, in all the revolutionary and fanatic nature of its interpretation of Islam. The British and their Egyptian allies finally managed to recapture Khartum in 1989, but the Mahdist uprising left a kind of lasting legacy.

Omdurman, Sudan

Taxi station of Omdurman’s suq area.