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European population of a Wallcreeper  is estimated at tens thousands of pairs. Statistically it isn’t uncommon bird. Unfortunately that’s only statistics, because the environment in which Wallcreeper lives, makes him very tough to observe or take some pictures. They live in up to 4000 meters high rock cliffs . They weigh about 20 grams. These little birds live in inaccessible areas, so I could only admire others’ photos. Polish population of Wallcreeper is very small.

Albatrosses, fulmars, shearwaters, storm petrels…

It is a migratory duck and occurs in Australia, Indonesia, Borneo, New Guinea and the Philippines. Their diet consists of grass, insects and aquatic plants. Its weight reaches 750 grams. It was migrating to such extent that I could see it only for a moment.

It makes an incredible impression as this 30-kilogram heavy, 2,5-meter long water monitor slowly passes by a dozen or so meters from us. We had to step back to a certain extent in order to be able to see the whole silhouette of the monitor in telephoto lens. The pictures were taken, as usually for me in case of reptiles, just by the way. We were taking photos of common stilts, red-wattled lapwings, kingfishers and Chinese pond herons near mangroves, when we noticed a huge monitor on a dam dividing two water reservoirs.

How  to get to the place where the  water pipit occurs it is written in the description  of the alpine accentor gallery. Water pipits can be found only in the mountains above the 1200- 1500 meters, above tree line. In winter they migrate towards the lower parts of the mountains and to highlands. Water pipits were much more skittish than an alpine accentor. Fortunately there were a few individuals and when I went away from the cableway station, where dozens of people were always standing, I could take the presented photos.