Spot-Billed Pelicans
Three Pelicans with a Mugger crocodile for company. These birds are difficult to differentiate from other pelicans in the region except for the unmistakable spots on the upper mandible from which they derive their name. The lack of bright colours and the greyer plumage are distinctive. A strange thing is that these birds tend to nest close to human habitations and some villages with nesting colonies have become popular tourist attractions. Though the numbers of these birds have declined and many populations in Southeast Asia are now extinct, the populations in southern India are thought to be on the rise enabling their status to be changed from vulnerable to near threatened in the 2007.
Spot-Billed Pelicans
Three Pelicans with a Mugger crocodile for company. These birds are difficult to differentiate from other pelicans in the region except for the unmistakable spots on the upper mandible from which they derive their name. The lack of bright colours and the greyer plumage are distinctive. A strange thing is that these birds tend to nest close to human habitations and some villages with nesting colonies have become popular tourist attractions. Though the numbers of these birds have declined and many populations in Southeast Asia are now extinct, the populations in southern India are thought to be on the rise enabling their status to be changed from vulnerable to near threatened in the 2007.