The Pelican is not a New Zealand Bird
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
The fossil record here is actually very good for birds, but across the whole of the country the entire collection of bones of pelicans only represented seven individuals. For starters New Zealand didn’t seem to have or have ever had the right type of wetlands to sustain a population of this large piscivore. And, sometimes, New Zealand.
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