Adult © Christoph Moning eBird S16514836 Macaulay Library ML 65630041
Adult © Kevin Vande Vusse
Immature © bob butler
Juvenile © Christoph Moning
Adult © Christoph Moning
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© Simeon Gigov

Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus

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Identification

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A large white waterbird with a hefty bill and a yellow-orange throat pouch. Note the pink bare skin around eye that extends towards the bill. Young birds have browner overall plumage relative to adults with brown upper wings and a brown head. Legs are pink. In flight shows dark flight feathers which contrast with the rest of the wing. Often seen fishing cooperatively, swimming in a wide arc to round up the fish and then scoop them into their pouch.

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