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Winchat        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Winchats are small, strikingly patterned, short-tailed but otherwise thrush-like birds that breed in open meadows in Europe and Asia and migrate to the tropics for the winter.   These were photographed in eastern Poland, near Bialowieza and in Biebrza National Park.   Most of the images are of females, but there is also a distant view of a male (above right) and a fledgling (pale bird below).   They are quite shy, so getting a tightly-cropped image was a challenge (and I don't have a good one of a well-plumaged male).

  • Canon 1D3, 500 mm f4 IS lens with 2X converter or 800 mm IS lens with 1.4X converter, fill-in flash (2008, 2009)