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
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).
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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
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state. American White Pelican: 19. Brown Pelican: 53. Cattle Egret: 133. Shorebirds put on a good showing with a total of 18 species, despite the shrinking number and quality of sites offering adequate habitat. Anhinga: 95.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2018
Since 1966, when the Breeding Bird Survey first began monitoring, numbers have declined 79 percent. Research indicates that this decline can be tempered by management of cattle grazing practices, preventing growth of shrubs and trees and the invasion of non-native plants.
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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