Timothy G. Laman is an American ornithologist, wildlife photojournalist and filmmaker. He is notable for documenting all the species of bird-of-paradise in their native habitat during research expeditions with colleague Edwin Scholes of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. His bird-of-paradise work was first published in a 2007 article about them for National Geographic. In 2016, he won the top prize in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards, for his image of an orangutan climbing a tree to feed on figs.
Books in order of publication:
Face to Face With Orangutans – 2009
Birds of Paradise: Revealing The World’s Most Extraordinary Birds – 2012
Rain Forest Colors – 2014
Bird Planet: A Photographic Journey – 2022
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