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The Pelican is not a New Zealand Bird

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This is the story of the pelicans of New Zealand. Australian Pelican ( Pelecanus conspicillatus ) at Centennial Park, Sydney No pelicans were recorded in New Zealand when the Europeans first arrived, and it wasn’t until 1930 that fossils of pelicans were discovered in a cave in central North Island.

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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. I normally see Ruddy Ducks on the lake’s deepest waters, and as I said, there are no deep waters in the Lake Cuitzeo right now.

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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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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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Geelong-Rippleside Park to Eastern Park

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I watched the Australian Pelican, Chestnut Teal and Silver Gulls in the shallows whilst I had a warm drink. Australian Pelican, Chestnut Teal and Silver Gulls. It represents a captain bringing live birds to add to the bird collection at the Botanical Garden! You can see one of the rabbits on the second bollard from the right.

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Lake Bindegolly National Park

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We collected information on National Parks and there were several that we had not previously heard of. The National Park is unusual because it offers very few facilities compared to most, but there is a sealed road right into the small car park and a shade shelter with a table and chairs and information about the park. miles long.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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By the last year of the war, the US increased its military aid to the Greek Government and introduced a new weapon: the first napalm attack after World War II took place right here! At one occasion, during the hike Tsanakis collected wild mushrooms and in a restaurant, asked the chef to prepare those for us.

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