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Australian Pelican in action

Started Sep 23, 2015 | Photos thread
Hen3ry
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Interesting thought, Glen, but no…

Glen Barrington wrote:

How do you know he's Australian? Couldn't' he have just been passing through on his way to someplace else?

…if they are in Australia and look like that, they are Australian pelicans. They are supposed to be in Papua New Guinea too but I haven't seen them here and I am sure they are not in the islands where I am but I might be wrong.

Lots of other birds do migrate over vast distances internationally, but not Pelicans.

They do migrate around in Australia rather amazingly. On the rare occasions when Lake Eyre fills, they apper in mega-thousands apparently out of nowhere (along with some other water birds). How do they know?

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