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Type of a picture initiating the gallery or a “contact” picture. It was taken near Gdańsk and let's hope it will come by to see its change to a better and more interesting one. Wingspan of an Arctic Tern is around 80 centimeters with a weight of around 100 grams.
Last minute news 06/2014 – Iceland
I’m glad that all the previous documentary pictures of this species now get into the archive. They are replaced by images which capture the charm of this little bird. On several occasions Arctic terns in Iceland formed colonies on the ground, in easily accessible places. Near parking lots, on meadows, along the roadside. It was not difficult to find them. Approaching a colony of Arctic terns too close always ended the same way – they would defend their colony, collectively attacking and tormenting the intruder. They are a graceful object to photograph indeed. I managed to capture a special moment between a male and a female, I guess. The male was giving the female its prey while in flight. She was sitting on a rock by a lake making a series of monotonous, short sounds. The male hang in the air nearby like a kestrel and dived for fish in turns. Successful hunting always ended in the male’s approaching the female and giving her his prey while in flight. In a few days I managed to take pictures which do not change the previous gallery so much, but rather create it anew. I didn’t have difficulties with recording the sound of this bird, especially due to the significantly reduced distance between me and the colony.
Last minute news 06/2018 – Iceland
Last minute news 07/2018 – Norway-Spitsbergen
They were not as numerous on Spitsbergen as in Iceland. They were, however, an attraction of nature for many tourists coming to Longyearbyen. Just two meters from the main tarmac road there was a nesting site of the tern. Everyone who passed by the road had to get known that it was reserved area of the bird. Squawks spreading around, marked attacks and defecating to a tourist- it was a system of repelling actions of the bird. There and in several other places were taken the photos that make the gallery more variable.
Islandia - wykaz j.angielski
Iceland introduction - Great northern loon
1. Great northern loon. 2. Red Crossbill. 3.Common redshank. 4. Harlequin duck. 5. Whimbrel. 6. Great skua. 7. Black-legged kittiwake. 8. Northern fulmar. 9. Northern gannet. 10. Black guillemot. 11. Red-necked phalarope. 12. Horned grebe. 13. Glaucous gull. 14. European golden plover. 15. Northern shoveler. 16. Redwing. 17. Razorbill. 18. Barrow's goldeneye. 19. Parasitic jaeger. 20.Thick-billed murre. 21. Rock ptarmigan. 22. Great black-backed gull. 23. Short-eared Owl. 24. Whales. 25. Manx shearwater. 26. Gadwall. 27.Harbor Seal. 28. Pink-footed goose. 29. Iceland gull.
And changes in the galleries:
1. Red-throated Loon. 2. Puffin. 3. Redwing. 4. Eurasian oystercatcher . 5. Common snipe. 6. Arctic tern. 7. Reindeer. 8. Black-tailed godwit. 9. Common ringed plover. 10. Guillemot 11. Purple sandpiper. 12. Whooper swan. 13. Common eider. 14. Eurasian wigeon. 15. Red-breasted merganser. 16. Greater Scaup. 17. Brant goose.18. Red knot . 19. Dunlin. 20. Tufted duck. 21.Greylag Goose.
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ISLANDIA-06/2018 ANGIELSKI
Iceland 06/2018 – the introductory text – Gyrfalcon
1. Gyrfalcon (T,V). 2. Short-eared Owl (T) . 3. Great northern loon (T). 4. Merlin (T). 5. Glaucous gull (T,V). 6. Pink-footed goose (T). 7. Rock ptarmigan (T,V). 8. Harlequin duck (T). 9. Thick-billed Murre (T). 10. Iceland gull (T). 11. Black-tailed Godwit (T). 12. Whimbrel (T). 13. Redwing (T,V). 14. Razorbill (T). 15. Guillemot. 16. Eurasian Wigeon (T). 17. Northern Pintail (T). 18. Red-throated Loon. 19. Black-legged kittiwake. 20. Dunlin. 21. Meadow Pipit. 22. Parasitic jaeger. 23. European golden plover. 24. Common redshank. 25. Horned grebe. 26. Barrow's goldeneye (T). 27. King eider (T). 28. Lesser black-backed gull. 29. Northern Wheatear. 30.Long-tailed jaeger. 31. Arctic Tern. 32.Black-headed Gul.
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SPITSBERGEN- 07/2018 ANGIELSKI
Svalbard-Spitsbergen - introductory text – Little auk.
New galleries:
1.Little auk (T,V). 2. Red phalarope (T). 3. Arctic fox (T).
Changes in galleries:
1. Snow Bunting (T,V). 2.Long-tailed jaeger (T). 3. Parasitic jaeger. 4. Barnacle Goose (T,V). 5. Rock ptarmigan (T). 6. Red-throated Loon (T). 7. Purple Sandpiper (T). 8. Dunlin. 9. Black-legged kittiwake (T,V). 10. Glaucous gull. 11. Northern fulmar. 12. Red-necked phalarope. 13. Thick-billed Murre (T). 14. Black guillemot. 15.Edredon. 16. Long-tailed Duck (T). 17. Arctic Tern (T). 18. Atlantic puffin. 19. Brant Goose. 20.King eider (T). 21. Reindeer.
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1. Norway – Fauna. 2. Spitsbergen landscape (July). 3. Longyearbyen.4.SVALBARD-slideshow