White pelicans (Pelecanus oncrotalus) fighting over food, Walvis Bay, South Atlantic Ocean, Namibia
This is normally a bird of fresh water, by exception here on the ocean. It is huge, up to 1.80 m long and with a wingspan of up to 3.6 m, exceeded only by some albatrosses. Widely, if patchily, distributed as a breeding species in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. From a slide.
220909 004DN
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White pelicans (Pelecanus oncrotalus) fighting over food, Walvis Bay, South Atlantic Ocean, Namibia
This is normally a bird of fresh water, by exception here on the ocean. It is huge, up to 1.80 m long and with a wingspan of up to 3.6 m, exceeded only by some albatrosses. Widely, if patchily, distributed as a breeding species in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. From a slide.
220909 004DN
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