Registered: November 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 405
Sun 6, April 2008 8:22pm
Love the picture, even the one in the background is posing for you!
Going on the pinkness of the bird I'd say it's a Pelecanus onocrotalus, a Eastern White Pelican apparently also known as Great White Pelican Roseate Pelican European White Pelican & Old World Pelican.
goosey Really Wild Member
Registered: August 2007 Location: Holland Posts: 1,482
Sun 6, April 2008 8:41pm
I can't believe I missed this brilliant image Paul, the colouring and feather detail is so good and I love the one in the background very terradactyl - ish.
paul m Really Wild Member
Registered: November 2006 Location: Sheffield, UK Posts: 1,803
Sun 6, April 2008 8:47pm
Thanks Frostfire - a bird with many names: this is partly what confused me!
Goosey, this one was on the "mainland" - there were another couple on an island along with some cormorants (which I think were tourists). This one was very visitor-friendly (I have a large series of photos!) but seemed to be a star/celebrity - the pelicans and cormorants on the island seemed to be a sort of backing group - they would all extend their wings and flap about in a synchronised manner - perhaps croaking something like, "Give us a fish! Give us a fish!" .
Yes, there is something very primitive about them .....
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