Procellariiformesare among the very difficult and rarely photographed birds by me. This time the opportunity came during a cruise between Sardinia and Corsica. The Scopoli's Shearwater flew close enough to the ship several times to produce the first photos of this species. A double success! One, that it is a new, difficult, sea bird species, and two, that it is a species included in the fauna of Poland. It is a pity that Levantine shearwater, which always showed up in groups of a few to a dozen individuals, always kept at a much greater distance.