Dalmatian Pelican-Photo Album-ccnpic


	Large water birds. 160 ~ 180 cm body length. The mouth of lead gray, long and thick, the upper and lower edge of the second half of the mouth are yellow, there is a yellow front-end claw-shaped hook. Lower jaw, there is a large orange-yellow or pale yellow bladder. Body feathers are mainly silver-white, and gray. Flight feathers are black with white feather edge. The crown head was curled feather-like. Cheek and eye area are exposed to the skin yellow or flesh-colored milk. Long neck. Wings lenient. The tail short and wide. Shorter legs, feet as the blue-gray, four toes are webbed. gray body feathers, eyes yellow, orange or yellow throat pouch. Wings are white, only black flight feathers, feather tip (white pelican, black wings with more). Nape of the neck with curly crown feathers. Forehead feathers are not like white pelican protrusion into a crescent but a line. iris - yellow, eye bare skin - pink; mouth - maxillary gray, pink lower jaw; feet - almost gray. cry: breeding husky hiss issue. [1] living habits Dalmatian Pelican is found in southeastern Europe, northern Africa and Asia, the eastern area. Habitat in the inland lakes, rivers and marshes, and coastal areas and so on. Like to live in groups. Audible low and hoarse. Be good at flying and swimming, but also good at walking on land. Often bent neck "S" shape, reduction in the shoulder. To fish, crustaceans, molluscs, amphibians, etc. for food. habitat in lakes, rivers, coastal waters, hi gregarious and swimming, but not diving. Fish-based food. Adult pelicans generally match live, nest to lay eggs on the ground. Litter eggs 1 ~ 3. Gender hatchery and fed child. Gang Chu small pelican eggshell color dark gray, and soon give birth to a shallow white hair. The pro-bird half-digested fish feed chicks, etc. After the eaglet grew up, his head stuck it into the pro-open mouth of the bladder birds, the pecking back of the fish. mating for a male and one female. The breeding season in June every year 4. Nests in trees near water. Litter 3 to 4 eggs, eggs for the light blue or slightly green. By pro-birds take turns incubating. [Back]