The Pelican is not a New Zealand Bird
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
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. The answer should be obvious to any birder that enjoys a bit of twitching; they were lost.The species is actually prone to that; they regularly turn up in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
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