One could say that we were lucky this time. In Thailand only one representative of the stork family - the Asian openbill - was photographed. When I was back from other trips I could not widen a group of the representatives of this family on my website. In South Africa, we managed to photograph the yellow-billed stork, the African openbill and the woolly-necked stork. So I have three more representatives of storks. Of course with varying degrees of success  in terms of photographic effect. The easiest to take and for a longer time  that I had the pleasure to photograph was a yellow-billed stork, several times a woolly-necked stork and once for a short moment an African openbill. The quality of photos is directly proportional to the number of my observations. This text is common to these three species.
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Republic of South Africa 02/2017 - introductory text - Livingstone's turaco
Birds-new galleries:
1.Livingstone's turaco(T,V),2.Red-billed oxpecker(T,V).3.Long-tailed widowbird (T,V),4.Cape Glossy-Starling.5.Grosbeak Weaver (T,V).6.Trumpeter Hornbill (T,V),7.Fork-tailed Drongo.8.Rufous-chested Swallow (T).9.Long-tailed Cormorant.10. Burchell's Coucal (T,V).11.Water Thick-knee (T).12.Spotted Thick-knee (T).13.African Swamphen.14. Great White Pelican.15.African Pied Wagtail (T,V).16.Crested Guineafowl (V).17.Three-banded Plover (T).18.White-fronted Plover (T).19.Pin-tailed Whydah.20.Southern Red Bishop (T,V).21.Tawny-flanked Prinia.22.Forest Weaver (T).23.Cape Weaver (T).24.Bald ibis (T). 25.African Fish Eagle,26.Dark-capped Bulbul,27.Sombre Greenbul,28.African Pied Starling,29.Black-bellied Glossy-Starling,30.Woolly-necked Stork (T).31.Blacksmith Lapwing,32.Black-headed Heron,33.Goliath Heron (T),34.Red-winged Starling,35.Yellow-billed Stork (T).36.Blue Bustard (T).37.White-faced Whistling Duck,38.Perrin's Bushshrike (V),39.Natal Francolin (T),40.Speckled Pigeon,41.Lesser Striped-Swallow, 42.Greater Striped-Swallow(V),43.Yellow-billed Duck,44.Yellow-billed Kite,45.South African Shelduck (V),46.African Stonechat,47.Cape Canary,48.Black Cuckooshrike,49.Grey Crowned-Crane (T),50.Blue Crane (T),51.Crowned Hornbill (T),52.Wahlberg's Eagle,53. Palm-nut Vulture,54.Pied Kingfisher,55.Hamerkop,56.Orange River white-eye,57.Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove,58.Southern Black-Flycatcher,59.Malachite Sunbird,60.Black-backed Puffback,61.African Golden-Weaver,62.African Jacana (V),63.African harrier-hawk.64.African Firefinch,65.Crested Barbet,66.Wailing Cisticola,67.Brown-crowned Tchagra,68.Black-winged Lapwing,69.Wattled Lapwing,70.Black Heron,71.Red-faced Mousebird,72.Speckled Mousebird,73. African Hoopoe,74.Bokmakierie Bushshrike,75.Crested Francolin (T),76.Brown Snake-Eagle,77.Spur-winged Goose,78.Gray Go-away-bird, 79.Sacred Ibis(T,V),80.Wire-tailed Swallow,81.Rufous-necked Wryneck,82.Brown-hooded Kingfisher,83.Woodland Kingfisher,84.Striped Kingfisher,85.Red-knobbed Coot,86.Blue-cheeked Bee-eater(T),87.Little Bee-eater (T),88.African Darter,89.Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (T,V),90.Kittlitz's plover (T),91.Caspian Tern,92.White-backed Vulture,93.Red-billed Teal, 94.Purple-crested Turaco (V),95.Red-billed Quelea,96.African Yellow White-eye,97.Black-collared Barbet,98.Mocking Cliff-Chat,99.Southern Anteater-Chat,100.African Paradise-Flycatcher,101.Ring-necked Dove,102.Golden-breasted Bunting,103.Yellow-crowned Bishop,104.Yellow-throated Petronia, 105.Yellow-bellied Greenbul,106.Rattling Cisticola (V).107.White-throated Swallow.108.Red-eyed Dove.109.White-eared Barbet. 110. Plain Martin,111.Banded Martin,112.Red-backed Scrub-Robin (V),113.Southern Fiscal,114.Gray-winged Francolin (T),115.Acacia Pied Barbet,116.Glossy Ibis (T),117.Buff-streaked Bushchat,118.African Openbill (T),119.Chinspot Batis,120. Bateleur (T),121.Dideric Cuckoo,122.Yellow-fronted Canary,123.Malachite Kingfisher,124.Scarlet-chested Sunbird,125.Orange-throated Longclaw,126.Yellow-throated Longclaw,127.African Green-Pigeon,128.Cape Bunting,129.Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird,130.Variable Indigobird,131.Fan-tailed Widowbird,132.Orange Weaver,133.Long-crested Eagle,134.Cape Crow (V),135.Southern Gray-headed Sparrow,136.Cape Sparrow,137. Helmed Guineafowl.138.Green-backed Camaroptera.139.Violet-backed Starling.140 Black-bellied Glossy-Starling.
MAMMALS NEW GALLERIES: 1.Southern giraffe.2Burchell's zebra.3.Nyala.4.White rhinoceros.5.Chacma baboon.6.African Buffalo.7.Wildebeests.8.Common warthog.9.Waterbuck.10. Bushbuck.11.Vervet monkey.12.Banded mongoose.13.Impala.
REPTILIES - NEV GALLERIES: 1.Nile crocodile.2.Leopard tortoise.3.Serrated Hinged Terrapin.4.Flap-necked chameleon.
INSECT : 1. Elegant Grasshopper. 2.Plum dung beetle, and changes in the gallery of butterflies, odonata and other insects.
CHANGES IN BIRDS GALLERIES : 1.European roller (T).2 Black-winged kite.3.Amur falcon (T).4.Egyptian goose(T).5.Red-backed shrike (T).6.Hadeda ibis (T).7.Llittle egret.8.Cattle egret.9.Barn swallow.10.Squacco heron.11.Zitting cisticola (T).12.Common moorhen.13. Steppe buzzard (T).14.Sanderling (T ).15.Purple heron.16.European Bee-eater.17.Common tern. 18.Laughing Dove.19.White stork.
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Junglefowl- introductory text from the expedition to Sri Lanka.
Newly created galleries:
BIRDS:

1.Sri Lanka Junglefowl (T,V). 2.Ceylon Magpie (V). 3.Barn Owl (T). 4.Indian Peafowl (T,V). 5.Spot-winged Thrush. 6.Sri Lanka White-eye 7.Ceylon Grey-Hornbill (V). 8.Brown Fish Owl (T). 9.Great Thick-knee(V). 10.Sri Lanka Spurfowl (V) 11.White-bellied Sea-Eagle (T).12.Green-billed Coucal.  13.Sri Lanka Hanging-Parrot (T). 14.Jungle Owlet (T,V). 15.Tricolored Munia (V). 16. White-breasted Waterhen(V). 17.Greater Coucal(V). 18.Crested Hawk-Eagle (V). 19.Serendib Scops-Owl. 20. Ceylon Frogmouth. 21.Painted Stork. 22.Indian Pond Heron. 23.Spot-billed Pelican. 24.White-browed Fantail. 25.Yellow-browed Bulbul. 26.Black Bulbul(V). 27.Alexandrine Parakeet(V). 28.Orange-billed Babbler(V). 29.Sri Lanka Green-Pigeon. 30.Tickell's Blue-Flycatcher. 31.Red-faced Malkoha. 32.Oriental Darter. 33.Crimson-backed Flameback. 34.Red-vented Bulbul. 35.Crimson-backed Flameback.36.Brown-capped Babbler. 37.Indian Scops-Owl. 38.Yellow-eared Bulbul (V). 39.Ashy-headed Laughingthrush. 40.Sri Lanka Drongo. 41. Chestnut-backed Owlet. 42.Chestnut-headed Bee-eater. 43.Layard's Parakeet. 44.Jerdon's Leafbird. 45.White-bellied Drongo. 46.Asian Paradise-Flycatcher. 47.Cinnamon Bittern. 48.Rosy Starling. 49.Brown-headed Barbet. 50.Pin-tailed Snipe. 51.Jerdon's Bushlark. 52.Malabar Pied-Hornbill. 53.Stork-billed Kingfisher. 54.Sri Lanka Woodshrike. 55.White-rumped Munia. 56.Black-headed Ibis. 57.Plain Prinia. 58.Yellow-billed Babbler. 59.Pied Cuckoo. 60.Brown Wood-Owl. 61.Kashmir Flycatcher. 62.Yellow-wattled Lapwing. 63.Sri Lanka Swallow. 64.Little Swift. 65.Malabar Trogon(T). 66.Indian Thick-knee. 67.Long-billed Sunbird. 68.Forest Wagtail. 69.Sri Lanka Wood-Pigeon(T). 70.Indian Robin. 71.Whiskered Tern. 72.Asian Koel. 73.Shikra. 74.Indian Pita. 75.Ashy Prinia. 76.Indian Cormorant. 78.Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark. 79.Orange-breasted Pigeon. 80. Gray-bellied Cuckoo. 81. Small Pratincole. 82.Dark-fronted Babbler. 83. Brown-breasted Flycatcher. 84.Yellow-fronted Barbet. 85.Purple-rumped Sunbird. 86.Barred Buttonquail. 87.Green Imperial Pigeon. 88.Clamorous Reed Warbler. 89.Jungle Prinia. 90.Common Iora. 91.Lesser Yellownape.  92.Purple Sunbird. 93.Crested Serpent Eagle. 94.Crested Honey Buzzard.95.Grey-headed Swamphen (T).
MAMMALS:
1.Sri Lankan elephant. 2.Chital. 3.Indian hare. 4.Tufted Gray Langur. 5.Toque macaque. 6.Indian palm squirrel (V). 7.Grizzled giant squirrel. 8.Yellow-striped chevrotain.9.Wild water buffalo. 10.Ruddy mongoose. 11. Golden jackal.
REPTILES::
1.Sri Lankan kangaroo lizard. 2.Green forest lizard. 3. Saltwater crocodile. 4.Sri Lanka Agama. 5.Sri Lankan pit viper(T). 6.Bengal monitor. 7.Asian water monitor. 8. Indian rat snake.
Changes in galleries:
BIRDS:

1.Purple Heron. 2.Red-wattled Lapwing (V), 3.Rose-ringed Parakeet (V), 4.Oriental Magpie-Robin (V). 5.Black-hooded Oriole(V), 6 Brahminy Kite. 7.Blue-tailed Bee-eater(T). 8.Flame Minivet. 9.Spotted Dove(V). 10.Emerald-Dove. 11.Common Myna. 12.Asian Openbill. 13.Pied Kingfisher. 14.Brown Shrike. 15.Nutmeg Mannikin. 16.White-throated Kingfisher. 17.Pheasant-tailed Jacana. 18.Lesser Whistling-Duck. 19. Great Egret. 20.Intermediate Egret. 21.Indian Roller. 22.Eurasian Spoonbill. 23.Yellow Bittern. 24.Common Tailorbird. 25.Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher. 26.Ashy Woodswallow. 27.Coppersmith Barbet. 28.Little Egret. 29.Common Kingfisher. 30.House Sparrow(T). 31.Woolly-necked Stork. 32.Barn Swallow. 33.Richard's Pipit. 34.Common Redshank. 35.Marsh Sandpiper. 36.Little Stint. 37.Black-crowned Night Heron. 38.Caspian Tern. 39.Little Green Bee-eater(T). 40.Zitting Cisticola. 41.Grey heron.42.Little Cormorant. 43.Black-capped Bulbul. 44.Large-billed Crow(V). 45.Pied Bushchat 46.Gray-breasted Prinia.47.Baya Weaver.
MAMMALS:Indian flying fox (V).
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Botswana 11/12-20222 -Introduktory text- White-quilled Bustard
News galery:
BIRDS:

1. White-quilled Bustard (T,V). 2.Giant Kingfisher. 3.Southern Red-billed Hornbill (T,V). 4.Crimson-breasted Gonolek (V). 5.Red-crested Bustard (V). 6.Wattled Crane. 7.Southern Carmine Bee-eater (V). 8.African Golden-Oriole. 9.White-headed Vulture. 10.Bearded Woodpecker. 11.Queen Whydah. 12.Southern Rufous-Sparrow. 13.Sabota Lark. 14.Caspian Plover. 15.Common Grenadier. 16.Swallow-tailed Bee-eater. 17. Chestnut-banded Plover (T). 18.Rufous-vented Warbler (V). 19.Burchell's Sandgrousea. 20.Kalahari Scrub-Robin. 21.Greater Kestrel. 22.Meyer's Parrot. 23.Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark. 24.Southern Brown-throated Weaver. 25.Brown Firefinch. 26.Jameson's Firefinch. 27.Ayres's Hawk-Eagle. 28.Gabon Boubou. 29.White-headed Lapwing. 30.African Snipe. 31.African Skimmer. 32.White-fronted Bee-eater. 33.Yellow-rumped Seedeater. 34.Wattled Starling. 35.Cape Wagtail. 36.Slaty Egret.. 37.Swainson's Spurfowl. 38.Double-banded Sandgrouse. 39.Burchell's Glossy-Starling. 40. Black Tit. 41.Red-headed Weaver. 42.Bradfield's Hornbill (V). 43.Southern Pied-Babbler. 44.Lizard Buzzard. 45.White-crowned Shrike. 46.Dwarf Bittern. 47.African Scops-Owl (V). 48.Saddle-billed Stork. 49.Black Cuckoo (V). 50.Coppery-tailed Coucal. 51.Southern Masked-Weaver. 52.Bennett's Woodpecker. 53.Burnt-neck Eremomela. 54.Dickinson's Kestrel. 55.Greater Honeyguide. 56.Angola Babbler (V). 57.Southern White-faced Owl (V). 58.Fawn-colored or Abyssinian Lark.(V) 59.African Barred Owlet (V). 60.Red-billed Francolin. 61.Scaly Weaver. 62.Chat Flycatcher. 63.Small Buttonquail 64.Racket-tailed Roller(V). 65.White-backed Duck. 66.Eastern Clapper Lark. 67.Arnot's Chat. 68.Rufous-bellied Heron.
MAMMALS:
1.African wild dog (T) . 2.Steenbok. 3. Caracal. 4.Southern lechwe 5.Greater kudu. 6.Sable antelope. 7.Southern Oryx. 8.Smith's bush squirrel (V). 9.Yellow mongoose. 10.African savanna hare. 11.Plains zebra (V).12.Side-striped jackal.
REPTILES: Ground Agama
FLORA : 1.Baobab(T). 2.Mopanie. 3.Kigelia - Sausage Tree  
CHANGES in GALLERIES:
BIRDS:

1.Schalow’s Turaco (V). 2. Yellow-billed Oxpecker (V). 3.Crested Barbet (V). 4.Southern Ground-Hornbil (V). 5.Chinspot Batis. 6.Arrow-marked Babbler (V). 7.White-backed Vulture (V). 8.Abdim’s Stork. 9.Common Ostrich. 10.Southern Anteater-Chat. 11.African Fish-Eagle. 12.Broad-billed Roller. 13.Crested Francolin. 14.Brown-crowned Tchagra. 15.Helmeted Guineafowl. 16.Kori Bustard (T). 17.Spotted Thick-knee. 18.Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse. 19.Pied Kingfisher. 20.Striated Heron. 21.Squacco Heron. 22.Green-backed Camaroptera. 23.Sacred Ibis. 24.African Openbill. 25.Pearl-spotted Owlet (T,V). 26.Grey Crowned-Crane. 27.Blacksmith Lapwing (V). 28.Ring-necked Dove. 29.Mariqua Sunbird. 30.African Pipit (V). 31.Red-capped Lark. 32.Crowned Lapwing. 33.Dark Chanting-Goshawk. 34.Temminck’s Courser. 35.Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark.(T) 36.Rufous-naped Lark. 37.Pied Crow. 38.Black-winged Kite. 39.Lappet-faced Vulture. 40.Wood Sandpiper. 41.Cape Teal. 42.Little stint. 43.Pied Avocet. 44.Kittlitz’s Plover. 45.Curlew Sandpiper. 46.Greater Flamingo. 47.Amur Falcon. 48.Lilac-brested Roller. 49.Magpie Shrike(V). 50.Yellow-throated Sandgruse. 51.Marabou Stork. 52.Hooded Vulture. 53.Spur-winged Goose. 54.Yellow-billed Stork. 55.Laughing Dove. 56.African Darter. 57.Great Egret. 58.Purple Heron. 59.Little Egret. 60.Woodland Kingfisher. 61.White-faced Whistling Duck. 62.Water Thick-knee. 63.Long-tailed Cormorant. 64.Egyptian Goose. 65.Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling. 66.White-browed Robin-Chat. 67.Mourning Collared-Dove. 68.Lesser Flamingo (T). 69.Fork-tailed Drongo. 70.African Spoonbill. 71.Glossy Ibis. 72.African Jacana. 73.Three-banded Plover. 74.Black-winged Stilt. 75.Yellow-billed Kite. 76.Red-backed Shrike. 77.White-browed Coucal. 78.Lesser Grey Shrike. 79.Red-billed Oxpecker. 80.Twany Eagle. 81.Brown Snake-Eagle. 82.Golden-brested Bunting. 83.Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver. 84.Ethiopian Boubou. 85.Namaqua Dove. 86.Estern Paradiese-Whydah. 87. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater. 88.Southern Fiscal. 89.Blue-brested Cordonbleu. 90.Little Bee-eater. 91.Hamerkop. 92.Black-winged Patricole. 93.Hottentot Teal. 94.Goliath Heron. 95.Gray Go-away-Bird. 96.Cut-Throat. 97.Southern Gray-headed Sparrow. 98.Long-toed Lapwing. 99.Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill. 100.Dideric Cuckoo. 101.Red-billed Teal. 102.Wahlberg’s Eagle. 103.Red-billed Firefinch. 104.Rattling Cisticola. 105.Montagu’s Harier. 106.Capped Wheatear. 107.Rosy-throated Longclaw. 108.Woolly-necked Stork. 109.Common Greater Painted-snipe. 110.Knob-billed Duck. 111.Collared Patricole. 112.White-winged Tern. 113.Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl (V). 114.Batelur. 115.African Gray Hornbill. 116.Grey Heron. 117.Yellow-throated Petronia. 118.Martial Eagle. 119.Black-collared Barbet. 120.Emerald-spotted Wood Dove. 121.White-browed Sparrow-Weaver. 122.African Stonechat. 123.Rufous-chested Swallow. 124.Red-backed Scrub-Robin. 125.African Paradise-Flycatcher. 126.African Hoopoe. 127.Zitting Cisticola. 128.Red-eyed Dove. 129.Yellow-bellied Greenbul.130.African Pygmy-Goose.131.Great Spotted Cuckoo 132.Levaillant's Cuckoo.133.Intermediate Egret. 134.Plain-backed Pipit. 135.Tawny-flanked Prinia.
MAMMALS:
1.African savanna elefant (T,V). 2.Southern Giraffe (T). 3.Blue Wildebeest. 4.Common Dwarf Mangoose. 5.Springbok. 6.Cheetah (T). 7.Waterbuck. 8.Lion. 9.Leopard. 10.Impala. 11.Common Warthog. 12.Chacma baboon. 13.African Buffalo. 14.Black-backed Jackal. 15.Common Hippopotamus. 16.Banded Mongoose.
REPTILES: 1.Nile Crocodile. 2.Savannah Monitor. 3.Nile Monitor.

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