Alphabetical list

You probably don’t need to introduce the mute swan to anyone in Poland, as this bird occurs so widely, which is perhaps due to its high fertility (5-9 eggs/chicks) and the fact it has got used to close contacts with humans. It should be remembered that it is a large bird, and approaching it, especially when it takes care of its young or sits on eggs, could be quite dangerous. The swan has an impressive wingspan exceeding 2.3 meters, with a weight up to 15 kilograms!

Tanzania-12/2017
Last minute news-Ethiopia-12/2019
Last minute news-11/12-2022 – Botswana

In South Africa there are probably 8 species of francolins that are very similar in their behavior to our partridges. We could see them always for the second or two, and that was it when it comes to possibility of shooting these timid birds. I do not have separate stories for each species of francolins, because the scenario was always the same. But it is worth mentioning that the natal francolin and the grey-winged francolin are endemic to South Africa, so the value of these galleries increases, and probably these galleries will never change.

It is much smaller than our cormorant. Its weight does not exceed 1,5 kilograms. Just as a reminder, our cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)  reaches up to 3,5 kilograms in weight. These pictures were taken by the Pacific Ocean, where I took photographs of the brown pelican, osprey and olivaceous cormorant. The olivaceous cormorant appears in the southern part of North America, on Cuba, Costa Rica and in Nicaragua. Unfortunately the birds were quite skittish and would flow away more often than pelicans.