Alphabetical list

It is difficult to describe my happiness with the fact that I have managed to take so many such photos of the black stork. It is a rare and very secretive, migrating bird. It has a wingspan of about 2 meters, and a body length of approximately 1 meter, with a weight of around 3 kg. Although in its shape and size it very much resembles the white stork, it is completely different when it comes to choosing nesting and feeding sites. Its nest is often located in hard-to-reach places, hidden from our sight.

The Black Swan is a bit smaller than our mute swan, its weight does not exceed 7 kilograms, with a wingspan up to 2 meters. It is a bird endemic to Australia, introduced in 1860 on the grounds of New Zealand. To my luck, because even though I've seen them several times in Australia, the pictures taken there were not satisfying. More interesting ones were taken in Auckland, New Zealand in the vicinity of the speedway stadium.

I took the first documentary photos of the black tern in Bulgaria. These days (09/2018) I have taken a few photos of similar quality in Mikoszewo, while waiting for a bar-tailed godwit. Unfortunately, the birds flew over our heads several times and left, there was no more chance to take photos.
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Shooting in a place like Iguazu resulted not only in pictures of one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world, but also in creating the black vulture gallery. Black vultures circled majestically above the waterfall. There were always a few - to ten individuals. They were flying high above the water, and then landed on the trees nearby, and a quarter, a half hour later they took their wings to fly again. Unfortunately, the birds were quite far away and using lens of 600mm + 2.0x converter, it was usually not enough.

It appeared in front of our lenses near a hide in Spain, alternately with the southern grey shrike and the blue rock thrush. The bird was such a frequent visitor in front of the hide that I had plenty of photos to choose from to build the gallery. It occurs on the Iberian Peninsula, in the southern part of France and in Northwestern Africa (11/2017). I also managed to record the bird’s voice.
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The black woodpecker is the largest among woodpeckers occurring in our country. It has a body weight of about a quarter of a kilogram, and a wingspan that doesn’t exceed 70 centimeters. Unfortunately it is very skittish and hence difficult to photograph. The images I took are more the result of a coincidence, than the effect of waiting in a place of its expected occurrence. If you move calmly and quite noiselessly through the forest, you can sometimes see it, especially that its plumage and size make it quite noticeable.

Well, you do not always manage to take a satisfactory series of pictures which would present a given species and its natural habitat extensively enough.  I took some photos of the black-and-rufous warbling finch, but they are far from satisfactory. Black-and-rufous warbling finches occur in Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, so there’s not much chance that this gallery will change. A finch weighs about 20 grams.

I wouldn’t have been able to photograph this bird, or to be more precise, a pair of these birds, without a guide. The guide stops the car at some point, we march several dozen meters, and here they are, sitting on their “duty branch”, on a massive tree. They didn’t pay much attention to us while we were photographing them. Black-and-white owls can reach up to half a kilogram in weight. They appear in Mexico, through Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia to Peru. They live in humid forests, eat insects, frogs, small birds and mammals.