Alphabetical list

From my experience and the time spent on the lakes, when I want to photograph a Little Crake, a Spotted Crake, a Common Moorhen or a Water Rail, only a Water Rail is always there. Sometimes a Common Moorhen appears, but the other two birds are often like a dream. Once trying to photograph a Water Rail, I was so masked that a Little Crake passed me, looking at me with surprise, unfortunately, it was too close to take the commemorative photo. Returning to the Water Rails, they are very reserved water birds and are almost always under the cover of reed.

Finally, to my gallery go other representatives of the thick-knee family. So far I managed to photograph only bush thick-knee in Australia. During our stay in South Africa I gained two more species: the water thick-knee and the spotted thick-knee, and this text is common to both. I had two opportunities to watch a water thick-knee. The first while on the cruise along a reservoir, the second during the observation of pied kingfishers. These images come from the first encounter. Water thick-knees were fairly easy to spot watching the shoreline.

South Arrica-02/2017
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The second jacana goes to my bird collection. Previously I had the opportunity to photograph jacanas in Australia. In Argentina I came accross the wattled jacana in two places: in Buenos Aires and around Ushuaia. Its very long fingers help to distribute the weight evenly, but are seen as strange and make the impression that the wattled jacana moves with difficulty and slowly. Jacana is a bird of a delicate physique. Its weight does not exceed 150 grams and a wingspan of 65 centimeters.
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So far I managed to photograph four species of lapwings during my travels - in Poland, in Australia, in Thailand and in Argentina. Whereas, only one trip to South Africa was enough for watching  and taking pictures of the blacksmith lapwing, the black-winged lapwing and the wattled lapwing, three new species of lapwings. It is a pity that not all pictures are good. Only the blacksmith lapwing was not skittish and I was able to take enough photos for a full, interesting gallery.

Two short contacts with the Weddell seal on Antarctica resulted in taking  the presented images. It lives in the waters around Antarctica. The length of its body reaches up to 3.5 meters and it weighs up to 450 kilograms.