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Well, swallows are a difficult object to photograph, not to mention the pictures of these birds in flight. So far on my site seven species of swallows have their galleries and none of them is rated as 4-star. After returning from South Africa I counted 4 new species and, interestingly, I was able to record the voice of a greater striped-swallow.

Pictures of the Wood Duck that are published here were taken in a park in Warsaw's Łazienki (Royal Baths). Searching for the duck on our water bodies is useless. Nonfreezing water in winter, sense of security and the fact that people like to fatten birds in the park are conducive to the occurrence of such "misfits" of our fauna as the Wood Duck or the Mandarin Duck. They probably escaped from some breeding farm. The Carolina Duck in nature is found only in North America. It is close to the Mandarin Duck in size, in which company it lives in Łazienki.

Pictures of the Wood Sandpiper were made while photographing White-winged tern. Unfortunately, the distance and the light left much to wish for. So, those pictures initiate the gallery, but are documentary in their value. There will come the time to photograph it in the morning light from a smaller distance and fund this gallery. Wood Sandpipers live on wet lands, nesting on the ground. Sandpiper’s weight is around 75 grams with a wingspan of 75 centimeters.
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There is quite an interesting and unique place for birdwatching on Malta. It is an artificial water reservoir of irregular shape with a few islets and green vegetation growing around it. It is fenced and inaccessible for hunters and passers-by. It has an observatory and educational function. It is literally hammered into the urbanized Maltese reality, so close, that it was impossible to record the sounds of birds due to the noise of a nearby road.

Several documentary photographs taken in Greece initiate a gallery of the woodchat shrike on my website. Unfortunately, a considerable distance and excess of the August sun didn’t allow to take better pictures. In Poland, it is an extremely rare breeding bird (several pairs). The wingspan of this bird is up to 30 cm, weight – to 40 grams, so it is a little bigger than our red-backed shrike.
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