David Tipling / Tribal performers from Hagen at Sing-sing, Mount Hagen Show in Western Highlands Papua New Guinea. Headress contains Papuan Lorikeet birds and King of Saxony plumes. August 2011

Gavin Hellier / Traditional Thai Dancer portrait, Sukhothai, Bangkok, Thailand, South East Asia

David Tipling / Kikuyu warrior wearing headress made of Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) feathers, Tomson Falls, Kenya. August 2010.

David Tipling / Sing-sing group from Western Highlands performing at Hagen Show, Papua New Guinea. With black plumes from the Black Sicklebill a bird of paradise. August 2011.

David Tipling / Huli Wigmen from the Tari Valley in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea at a Sing-sing Mount Hagen Papua New Guinea. Wearing bird of paradise feathers and plumes particularly Raggiana Bird of P...

David Tipling / Kitkung Nampaso - Masai Warrior wearing Ostrich feather head dress as worn during Euonoto ceremonies signifying the final stages of warriorhood, Masai Mara, Kenya. August 2010

David Tipling / Kikuyu warrior wearing headress made of Helmeted Guineafowl feathers, Tomson Falls, Kenya. August 2010

Roland Seitre / Conservation officer wearing a Macaw headress at headquarters of the Programme for the Conservation of the Blue throated / Wagler's macaw (Ara glaucogularis) Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia, Critically endang...

Jeff Wilson / Portrait of Huli tribesman who helped film crew film Birds of Paradise, Papua New Guinea. Filming for BBC Planet Earth, Jungles episode, 2005

Jeff Wilson / Portrait of Huli tribesman holding symbolic moon rock. He helped filmakers in the areas where Birds of Paradise were filmed for BBC Planet Earth, Jungles episode, 2005

Jeff Wilson / Portrait of Huli tribesman who helped film crew film Birds of Paradise, Papua New Guinea. Filming for BBC Planet Earth, Jungles episode, 2005

Jeff Wilson / Hornbill bird's beak and wild pig tusk used as decoration by Huli tribesman, who helped film crew film Birds of Paradise, Papua New Guinea. Filming for BBC Planet Earth, Jungles episode, 2005

Lorraine Bennery / White-Breasted Mesite (Mesitornis variegatus),on ground, Kirindy Forest Private Reserve, Madagascar, Vulnerable, endemic.

Loic Poidevin / White-breasted mesite (Mesitornis variegatus) on forest floor, Madagascar.

Pete Oxford / White-breasted mesite (Mesitornis variegata) Ankarafantsika Nature Reserve, Western deciduous forest. MADAGASCAR, endemic

Pete Oxford / White-breasted mesite (Mesitornis variegata) Ankarafantsika Nature Reserve, Western deciduous forest. MADAGASCAR, endemic

Roland Seitre / Two White-breasted mesites (Mesitornis variegatus) walking on forest floor, Madagascar.

Roland Seitre / White-breasted mesite (Mesitornis variegatus) foraging on forest floor, Madagascar.