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I managed to take pictures of the Black-legged Kittiwake a few times and in a fairly large colonies. It occurs commonly in Iceland. Its wingspan is of about one meter and it weighs about a half kilogram. While watching the colony it was not difficult to record a voice of a kittiwake,  actually the sounds of a colony. When you look at the kittiwakes’ nests  situated on rocky cliffs, it is hard to believe that the chicks are to survive in that  difficult, windy conditions to the age when they are self-sufficient.

The black-necked grebe - the last representative of the grebe family belonging to the Polish fauna goes to my gallery, what is more with its sound recorded on my own. This time taking pictures was easier than recording the voice of the bird.

It appears mostly north of Costa Rica, but for winter time it migrates from North America to Costa Rica, and further to the south. The birds appeared in small flocks, sometimes one could see pairs of birds peacefully seeking for food at the river bank. “Peacefully” is quite an unusual term, if we take the surrounding environment into consideration. The birds walked in the vicinity of crocodiles resting in the sunshine. Apparently, they were too small a meal and thus not worth attention of a crocodile, so that they didn’t have to fear.

Pictures that are shown in this gallery where taken during the only contact with these birds. The light was far from perfect, but I managed to take a lot of pictures of the bird which is probably not so common in Argentina. Although the trip was very varied, it did not happened to see the black-necked swans for the second time. In silhouettes and behavior they are very similar to our mute swans, or whooper swans but much smaller than them. They have a wingspan of about 1.7 meters, and body weight of 4-5 kilograms.

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The Black-shouldered Kite or else a short story about how the gallery was created based practically on one approach. Before leaving for Australia I read about the Black-shouldered Kite and found its distinctness about coloration so strange that it seemed very interesting to have such images in the gallery. For a bird with almost white plumage more natural habitat should be in winter climate, but here we have in hot Australia a raptor of such a plumage.