Scientific name:
Pelecanus onocrotaluis

Natural spread:
Africa, Europe

pink-pelicans, to move, now and then is in the habit of. From the Danube as far as to Africa, its habitat suffices. Even in the Iraq, there are pink-pelicans. There, the location now and then is changed. Above all in the winter, it goes into warm areas.

The pink-pelicans don't use its häutigen Kehlsack as storeroom as one believed once; rather it can be appointed to the heat-regulation on hot days since the thin skin through reinforced bloodstream can give off heat easily.

The pink-pelicans can gain a wing-length of over 70 cm and are good at its black Handschwingen and dark Armschwingen to erkennnen.

To the common fishing, the pelicans form a semicircle in groups on the water, swims on the shore to and drives one fish-swarms before itself ago, that they only then need herauszuschöpfen in the shallow water.