This week’s installment is another fascinating beast, the endangered Sisserou Parrot of Dominica, which adorns the country’s flag and can be hard as hell to spot in the wild.

Here’s one, spotted completely thanks to blind, dumb luck as it flew from tree to tree.  I got exactly one good picture.  See it?

OK, it’s almost exactly the same color as the foliage.  Fortunately, I was shooting with a decent camera, so let’s zoom in a bit.  See it now?

No?  Me neither.  In fact, while processing the photo, it took me a few minutes to spot him myself, even though I knew exactly where to look.  I started worrying maybe the little fellow ducked behind some leaves just as I snapped the shutter.  Let’s zoom in some more.  How about now?

OK, so before this turns into Highlights For Children, if you still don’t have it, let’s zoom in further, one final time:

Gigantic bird, actually.  But look back at that first picture and try to spot it. 

Pure dumb luck is pretty cool sometimes.