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Dubai: It’s 44 degrees Celsius outside – 47 inside the car – but Dr Reza Khan, 76, is oblivious to the scorching heat. He is at the Al Marmoom Desert Conservation Reserve in Dubai engaged in what he does best: The waiting game.
Ask him what he is waiting for this time, and he says, “Mummy Egret.”
The camera he has fixed on his car’s windowpane is sharply focused on the nest of a Little Egret, whom Dr Khan has been following for days. The painstaking effort pays off as he eventually drives away…
