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Pink-backed Pelican
-0.1, 30.08
Field Notes
Description:
The pink-backed pelican (Pelecanus rufescens) is a member of the pelican family of birds. This is a relatively small pelican though by no means a small bird.
Habitat:
Lake Edward/Kazinga Channel beach.
The pink-backed pelican is found in a range of aquatic habitats, but prefers quiet backwaters with shallow water, avoiding steep, vegetated lake banks. It prefers for freshwater lakes, swamps, large slow-flowing rivers, and seasonal pools but also frequents reservoirs, seasonally flooded land and flood-plains near river mouths.
Notes:
Great cormorants, Pink-backed pelicans, Great white pelicans on a
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Pink-backed pelican
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2014
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