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There are many fascinating birds in Australia, but  watching the Pheasant Coucal for the first time gave me a lot of excitement and satisfaction. I saw it a few times and the photos published here are the result of these meetings. The name itself seems to be intriguing. Is it more cuckoo or pheasant? Formally it belongs to the family cuculidae  but the appearance, maybe a bit elongated in shape, actually in size resembles a pheasant. It looks more like a predator than representatives of galliforms.

After returning from Thailand another two species of Jacanidae family go to my photogallery. Although the birds always kept quite a long distance, but by adding them to my gallery I wanted to show how different coloration representatives of these birds can have. I managed to collect 5 species of jacanas on my website. Starting from the Australian comb-crested jacana (Irediparra gallinacea), to the northern jacana (Jacana spinosa) that can be found in Costa Rica, or the wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) from Argentina.

Gambia-02/2023

It occurs in the central and northern part of Argentina and in Brazil. Presented photos were taken in the park in Buenos Aires, where I could shoot them with no problems. It is as popular there as Eurasian collared doves in Polish cities. But much more colored with its scaly feathers on the neck. The weight of the pigeon can reach about 300 to 400 grams and a wingspan of up to 70 centimeters.

It occurs on the coasts of Europe and Asia most frequently. In Poland, an extremely rare visitor, though more and more often their hatching is said to be seen in our country. The pictures were taken in the Netherlands within the midday break in shooting the baillon’s crake. After a short conversation with the Dutch bird-watchers it was clear that pied avocets can be easily shot not so far away on the coast. They were not many there, probably less than 10 individuals living beside the colony of black-headed gulls and sandwich terns.

Watching the Pied Butcherbird again brings to my mind association with our magpie. This species is slightly smaller. Body weight is about 125 grams. Males are black and white with the head in plain black color. Females have clear brown throat. Their menu is similar to our Great Grey Shrike: rodents, birds, lizards. To divide its prey into smaller portions it punches them on spikes and sharp twigs. It occurs only in Australia.

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