Flamingos and pelicans feed in the deeper water, and African penguins and gannets breed on the offshore islands.
The pelicans were there in force, competing for space with seagulls and a giant snowy egret.
Around 1, 400 Dalmatian pelicans, the world's largest variety of pelican, are thought to live in southern Russia.
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The hungry seagulls and pelicans at the Sydney Fish Market make lunch there a more interesting affair.
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The park's resident pelicans have taken to varying their diet by gobbling up other wild fowl on the lake.
Also, outside of them always trying to steal your pride food at the beach, pelicans are pretty sweet looking birds.
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Mr Dydymov said hundreds of kilograms of fish had been bought every day by Dagestan's Nature Protection Ministry for the pelicans.
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The Pelicans were also a minor league baseball team in New Orleans for all but nine seasons from 1887-1959 and 1977.
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Guided boat trips can be picked up in Celestun, and immediately, kingfishers, cormorants, hummingbirds and pelicans can be spotted on all sides.
Authorities in the southern Russian province of Dagestan are trying to save hundreds of rare Dalmatian pelicans trapped by unusually cold weather.
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Given the chance, he says, the pelicans will eat anything that moves.
No amount of boom will protect waterbirds like pelicans, gulls and terns, because diving into the water for fish is how they eat.
More than 800 brown pelicans died when a smaller oil spill hit Louisiana's Breton Island National Wildlife Refuge a few years ago, MacKenzie said.
Year-round, travellers are guaranteed sightings of loud sea lions, shy harbour seals, diving brown pelicans, hundreds of other birds, and the bottom feeding leopard shark.
The area supports important habitats for many species, notably various waterfowls, brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis), loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and red wolf (Canis rufus).
The New Orleans Hornets are expected to change their team name to the Pelicans as early as the 2013-14 season, according to multiple reports this week.
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The Peruvian government launched an official inquiry this year when close to 3, 000 dolphins and more than 500 pelicans washed up along that country's northern Pacific coast.
The salt lakes fill with fresh water, and millions of water birds - pelicans, stilts, shags and gulls - can be seen feeding on the superabundant fish and insect life.
From May to March and September through November the sky is so full of migrating cranes, storks, pelicans and flamingos, it is hard for sunlight to peek through.
It is the sea birds that are at greatest risk - pelicans, boobies, cormorants - and in fact anything that rests on or dives into the sea to feed.
"The news continued to show oiled pelicans and areas on the barrier islands which gave everyone the impression that the Gulf beaches were one big cauldron of oil, " Mobile, Alabama resident Tilmon Brown said.
More than 300 white pelicans, 23 endangered wood storks, 50 other fish-eating birds (great blue herons, cormorants, ring-billed gulls, common egrets), and three bald eagles have died near the lake northwest of Orlando.
Established in 1929 by President Hoover to protect a breeding ground for migratory birds, the sanctuary still ranks as one of the largest nesting areas in north Florida, for birds such as ibises, pelicans, egrets and double-crested cormorants.
As I paddle out into the surf on a crystal clear California morning, brown pelicans swoop low over the ocean, and a flock of seagulls of Hitchcockian proportions soar above a deserted beach where a harbor seal lolls in the sunshine.
With its golf holes playing out to the sea and salt marsh, its dunes patrolled by brown pelicans, and lanes overhung with Spanish moss, Sea Island has the air of a genteel, hidden enclave, at ease and above the fray.
At Corcovado you can find tapirs, jaguars, pumas, anteaters, two-toed and three-toed sloths, golden orb spiders, moon crabs, a diversification of monkeys (including all four types of Costa Rican monkeys, found only in Corcovado), crocodiles, poison dart frogs, pelicans, 220 species of butterflies, scarlet macaws and even the rare and venomous fer-de-lance snake.
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