Family Pelicans Protection 
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
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms. From that year onward my work became dedicated to the protection of the area, as well as promotion of local ecotourism possibilities. Next to them, Whiskered and Black Terns nest on floating leaves of White Water-lilies.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2016
By the cliffs we find several Eurasian Crag-Martins and a consolation species – a family of Golden Eagles in the air! The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2011
The order Suliformes holds a lot of special birds from anhingas and darters to cormorants and shags as well as frigatebirds, pelicans, and tropicbirds. But the sleekest of the sulids may be found in the family Sulidae. While this bird shares the Galápagos with two other boobies, the Red-footed Booby ( S. sula ) and Nazca Booby ( S.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2015
It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. But on the morning when my dad and I found them, they were clustered around the entrance to their burrows at the Pelican Boulevard Baseball Fields, a well-known spot for the birds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. Sometimes they have to protect their catches from piratic African Fish Eagles who swoop down as soon as they that see a Saddle-bill has successfully caught a fish.
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