Breeding Cattle Pelicans 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2024
Kerkini is shallow and is enormously productive, producing enough fish to feed a summer population of many thousands of Great Cormorants, along with hundreds of Great White and Dalmatian Pelicans, plus numerous other fish-eating birds. This indicates peak breeding condition, but by May their pouches are back to pale yellow again.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
Common Nightingales were singing, a squadron of Dalmatian Pelicans was in the air and everything was exactly where it should be, including myself. At mid-day, we took a boat tour of the heronries and the pelican islands with Nikos. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic. Belles, rising steeply two kilometres (1.2
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10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2023
The northern half of the lake added Corn Bunting , European Turtle Dove , Dalmatian Pelican , Purple Heron , Eurasian Hobby , Eurasian Golden Oriole , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , and only the first of the several Masked Shrikes of the tour (cover photo by Kostas Papadopoulos).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2017
In my homeland, some 800 km / 500 mi further north, these ducks are common on migration but very rare in the breeding season and I realized that these are my first young birds – ever. A few Lesser Kestrels by the dyke wall, then a Black-eared Wheatear at some cattle fencing. This year, we had about 65 dead pelicans.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
The other part of its attractiveness may be coming from the fact that it breeds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – countries seldom visited by foreign birders. As a proof, two Dalmatian Pelicans are flying low above us, while a Bluethroat disappears into the nearby bush. The Sun is just rising. Castor oil plant.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Cattle fields surrounded the small town, the cows forming dark silhouettes against the rapidly graying skies. However, there was no mistaking them: we had happened across a large flock of American White Pelicans ! Ring-billed Gulls in the fading evening light.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
I should have known that birding High Island meant I would be 20 minutes away from a place where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterbirds rest, feed, breed, and generally have a good time. Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian. American Avocets.
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