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2020
Utah’s Great Salt Lake (GSL) is so saline that the only invertebrates that survive in the open water are brine fly larvae and brine shrimp. In the absence of competition from other invertebrates, they are incredibly abundant. Only a few avian species can take advantage of their abundance because a bird cannot eat them without also ingesting salt ...
Michael R. Conover, Mark E. Bell
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Utah’s Great Salt Lake (GSL) is so saline that the only invertebrates that survive in the open water are brine fly larvae and brine shrimp. In the absence of competition from other invertebrates, they are incredibly abundant. Only a few avian species can take advantage of their abundance because a bird cannot eat them without also ingesting salt ...
Michael R. Conover, Mark E. Bell
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Ibis, 1970
SummaryThe yellow or orange‐brown colour on the breast feathers and to a lesser extent on other feathers of the Great White Pelican in a breeding colony on an island in Lake Shala, Ethiopia, is due to the presence of ferric oxide.The feathers most probably become stained when the birds are in the water, and the source of the ferric oxide may be iron ...
R. M. Baxter, Emil K. Urban
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SummaryThe yellow or orange‐brown colour on the breast feathers and to a lesser extent on other feathers of the Great White Pelican in a breeding colony on an island in Lake Shala, Ethiopia, is due to the presence of ferric oxide.The feathers most probably become stained when the birds are in the water, and the source of the ferric oxide may be iron ...
R. M. Baxter, Emil K. Urban
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Hand‐rearing the Eastern or Great white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus at Vogelpark Avifauna, Alphen
International Zoo Yearbook, 1998The Eastern or Great white pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus is rarely bred in captivity and eggs are often infertile, or are broken or disappear during nesting. At Vogelpark Avifauna, Alphen, mortality of parent‐reared young has been high and some chicks have drowned because they could not climb out of the pond in the outdoor enclosure. Between 26 January
S. H. OBER, R. VERKADE
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Short NotePink-backed Pelicans feeding communally with Great White Pelicans
2005Ostrich 2004, 75(3 ...
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Confirmation of Kleptoparasitism by American White Pelicans on Great Blue Herons
Colonial Waterbirds, 1996William P. Johnson +2 more
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Threatening factors of Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) at the wetland habitats of Iran
2021Bora, Khashayar Mahdiani, Saeid Naderi
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Recent Observations on the White Pelican on Gunnison Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah
The Auk, 1950Jessop B. Low, D. I. Rasmussen
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