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by **devil** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:02 pm

I received a PM asking me about the Nature in Cyprus forum. You can find out all the details at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cypnature/?yguid=38299784

Anyone can browse but you need to be a member to post (first posts are moderated to prevent spam. You can choose to receive and send posts by e-mail.

I started this forum a few weeks ago and it has been fairly slow to start but is picking up a little speed now.

Please come and join!

by **GammaDragon** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:54 pm

On the day before New Year's Eve, this guy flew from the sea and landed himself on a chair at Paphos Harbour and behaved pretty badly :lol:

Video http://65.75.182.70/~dweb/multimedia/wmv/crazybird.wmv

by **city** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:37 pm

Hi GammaGragon, nice pic and video. :-)

I'd say thats the "usual" guy, Paphos harbour is famous for. There are lots of stories that a pelican "lives" there.....

cheers, city

by **GammaDragon** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:58 pm

I did wonder :lol:

I thought he was maybe lost, looking for Luxor, so came to Cyprus to ask directions

by **devil** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:10 am

The White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus is quite a common passage migrant Sep to Nov and more rarely Jan to May. Rare in December, though. They are also sometimes a b....y nuisance, as this one, and also at Agia Napa, being prolific guano factories. Hence the expression, "Oh! No! Crot, all us covered!"

In the USA, the Brown Pelican is a spectacular diver and I've spent hours watching them on the Californian and Floridian coasts. The White, though, doesn't do it. It swims along, driving fish into the shallows, where it scoops them up.

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