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Famous Flamingos

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So both birds are assumed by many to be escapees from a zoo or a private collection somewhere. And Chilean Flamingos should be found, well, in Chile, as well as much of southwestern South America. And yet, they seem to have done quite well in their unnatural home.

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All Is Not Lost

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And this remnant lake is very, very birdy: The dominant birds, besides those American White Pelicans seen at the right, were Northern Shovelers — hundreds of them. This lake is often choked with Water Hyacinth, and rarely offers more than American Coots , Pied-billed Grebes , and a collection of Grebes and Herons.

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Peli Can-Do

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He’s talking about Brown Pelicans. “We He told me about last summer, when Bird Ally X received 246 Brown Pelicans covered not with petroleum, but with fish oil. Pelicans, waiting for a free meal, stood under the pipe and were seriously slimed. They eat like hogs, with 250 pelicans eating hundreds of pounds of smelt a day.

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Pink in Africa

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Pink-backed Pelican. Africa has two resident pelican species, the huge and widely distributed Great or Eastern White Pelican and the smaller Pink-backed which is restricted to Africa, the southern Arabian peninsula and Madagascar (where it may now be extinct.) Pink-backed Pelican by Markus Lilje/Rockjumper Birding Tours.

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What is killing birds at Karla Lake (Greece)?

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Several Glossy Ibises , two dozen Gull-billed Terns and Collared Pratincoles , a few Dalmatian Pelicans , Black Terns , Dunlins …. The birds are dying, he told me and continued, we found dead Grey Heron , Little Egret and a threatened Dalmatian Pelican today. This year, we had about 65 dead pelicans. What is killing them?

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Durban Botanical Gardens

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And even before we had left the car park I had gotten some Bronze Manakins bathing in the water feature at the gate and some Pink-backed Pelicans nesting on the lights of the nearby sports ground. A Grosbeak Weaver collecting nesting material. Some young Egyptian Geese.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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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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