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Those few pictures of a red-crested cardinal were taken in a park in Buenos Aires. It occurs in northern and central Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. It weighs 30-45 grams, with a wingspan of less than 30 cm. Due to its beautiful voice it is also artificially bred.

The name of this species probably comes from its fiery red crest on its head. Regrettably I didn’t manage to take many photos during a single encounter with this bird in the vicinity of Iguasu in Argentina. I managed, however, to capture its fiery crest on the head. This bird weighs about a dozen or so grams.

Well, I did not succeed with the red-crested pochard. Two attempts to photograph this bird in Mongolia ended in merely documentary pictures. On little ponds, apart from red-crested pochards there were also bar-headed geese, Mongolian herring gulls, horned grebes and grey herons. I did not have problems with photographing gulls or geese, but the pochards were unfortunately too far away to take better pictures.