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Dalmatian pelicans occur in Asia and southeastern Europe.  It is a rather rare guest in Poland, with an occurrence frequency once in a few years. This time the pelican was seen on a small island, regrettably quite a long distance from a lake shore and even a 600mm lenses with a double converter did not enable me to take satisfactory photos. Thus all the pictures presented here were created and while their processing I couldn’t do without framing them to a significant extent.

12/2017-Tanzania
Last minute-11/12-2022-Botswana

The range of the dark-bellied cinclodes is similar to the range of the Fuegian steamer duck. It lives exclusively in the south of South America (the coast of Chile and Argentina). The shooting session from my only encounter with this bird was quite strange but how fruitful. About one kilometer from the port of Ushuaia, the bird was feeding peacefully on the sea shore. I took a few photos and started to approach it slowly. The bird seemed undisturbed by our meeting and it let me come so close that despite its small size it hardly fit in the frame.

South Africa
Last minute news-11/2022- Zambia

Little smaller than a sparrow, Junco let me photograph it in Canada in only one place. “Sharp”, noon sun wasn't the best ally to take satisfying photographs. Searching through the web for the infromation on this bird I have read that it very rarely flies to Poland, and like most of the species here, is under strict protection. In behavior and coloring I would compare it to our redstart, difference being the tail's color. It is rusty for redstart and for Junco the belly side of the torso is white and the back is grey or black.

Quite an amazing and mysterious bird. It is very difficult to look for, but once you see it, and behave peacefully, the thrush begins to feed slowly. Its plumage merges with swampy bottom of a forest to such an extent that the thrush, which completely stops moving, is impossible to be noticed even from several meters. Thrushes occur in Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, Laos, Vietnam and China. They weigh about 80 grams.