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Wild Bactrian camels and yaks are a great rarity in Mongolia, and some Mongolians even claimed that these animals no longer lived in the wild. In the pictures presented here you can see animals which are bred by Mongolian nomads. The term “bred”, however, has a completely different meaning in Mongolia than in Europe. Camels and yaks (in the mountains) move across boundless spaces. There are no enclosures, fences or nomads guarding their herds. The animals must be self-sufficient and do exactly like wild camels.

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It is quite unusual that among all my pictures of the birds in the family Rallidae that occur in Poland you cannot find the little crake but there is the baillon’s crake. Several times I tried to  capture a little crake but I failed.  Once a little crake practically marched under my lens, but it was impossible to take photo with my 400 mm lens from a distance of one meter. The bird completely overlooked that nearby, a few meters away, in the beautiful scenery of reeds there were crawling its favorite delicacies.

Although bald ibises generally kept great distance from us, making many attempts I managed to take enough good shots for an interesting photo gallery. And it was important for me because bald ibises are found only in this part of the world. Almost all images were taken around the town of Wakkerstroom. Very interesting area for bird watching, and as is here in South Africa the case, unfortunately, quite problematic for taking good pictures. Standing by the road (quite busy, asphalt) on its both sides could be seen bald ibises while feeding.

Unfortunately, in the case of this shearwater I was not lucky. It could take only few images, of very poor quality. During the trip Balearic shearwater appeared for a while, and even then I did not start to photograph it immediately. The weight of these shearwaters is about 400 grams and a wingspan is less than 90 cm.

I am really unsatisfied when it comes to the exhibition of the banaquit on my website. It was photographed at the same time and the same place as hummingbirds and was a frequent visitor there. Unfortunately, I was so preoccupied with taking hundreds of photos of hummingbirds to obtain satisfactory images, that finally I have not a sufficient number of pictures of the banaquit to create an interesting gallery. So it often happens when abroad that species which in the new environment are quite rare, more difficult to capture, attract all the attention.