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Great White Pelican

Pelecanus onocrotalus

Description:

The water of Nakuru is filled with birds... This looks like a bomber... Beautiful!

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Great White Pelican
Pelecanus onocrotalus Great White Pelican


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3 Comments

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 12 years ago

Well Shot,

Filipe Pereira
Filipe Pereira 12 years ago

Thank you Daniele... ::UPDATED::

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

The Great White Pelican can be hard to distinguish from the Pink-backed one and their distribution largely overlaps, but the absence of a grey crest together with the bill sag give these ones away as great whites.

Filipe Pereira
Spotted by
Filipe Pereira

Nakuru, Rift Valley, Kenya

Spotted on Sep 12, 2011
Submitted on Dec 30, 2011

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