Alphabetical list

Looking for  that squirrel in the morning was useless. But I guess it likes the heat of the midday, because then comes to tourists on Fuerteventura and takes peanuts and other sweets. This is another artificially introduced species on the island. Its natural habitat is in the north-west Africa and it is the only species of squirrels living north of the Sahara. It  lives in colonies. Sometimes you can see many minor characters moving very quickly among bushes. Outside the places visited by tourists it is skittish and it is hard to take photos there.

Fortunately, this species does not occur exclusively on Fuerteventura, so it is more likely to enrich or to modernize presented gallery. When I dealt with the Barbary Partridge the situation was similar to that with the Courser, with the difference that I was able to take pictures of partridges, as far as coursers are concerned I took only one photo and of poor quality. Well, this gallery is not created. Barbary partridges appeared for a moment, and as in case of all birds living all around desert  of Fuerteventura they were very skittish.

An amazing heron. As we were sailing in a boat towards the river mouth to see a heron seeking food we had an impression that we were observing a large bird. Its stretched neck made such an impression. Amazing plumage. After a while of standing still it suddenly changed its position. The neck sort of hid, shrank, and the heron became much smaller, inconspicuous. Due to its plumage it was impossible to look out for it. It blended in with the environment. Many new galleries of representatives of the Pelecanidae family were made thanks to my trip to Costa Rica.

The photos you can find here were taken in a city park in Buenos Aires. The ibis supposed to be well assimilated there, because when I was there twice, each time I could watch it. Keeping a distance of a dozen - twenty meters it did not run away and let me take these pictures.

The barn owl is the 12th species in the family of owls included in the fauna of Poland that I have in my photo collection. It occurs practically on all continents, except Antarctica. Unfortunately, it belongs to the nocturnal owls and this feature makes it difficult to take pictures, not to mention good pictures of this bird. For the first time I could see barn owls on Sardinia, but they were so skittish that I have no photos of this bird from this trip.

It is one hell of a flier. It spends most of time in the air. Daily it can fly up to several hundred kilometers, at a speed reaching about 100 km/h. It eats insects. Unfortunately due to its small size, the great dynamics of its flight pattern, and the speed at which it moves, you have to be very lucky, patient and have the right equipment to take interesting pictures of this bird in flight. In autumn, after they raise their young, barn swallows roost on reed beds, near water reservoirs.