The Pelican is not a New Zealand Bird
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
Dipping for fish An extinct endemic form of pelican in New Zealand would have represented another family lost, like the odd form of owlet-nightjar and New Zealand’s lost members of the hawk and eagle family. But it seems the story wasn’t so clear cut. And the fossils themselves were vanishingly rare. And, sometimes, New Zealand.
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