![]() Adult pelicans exhibit visual displays for communicating with each other using their wings and bills. They are sociable and prefer to move in groups. Pelicans feed on fish they catch from coastal or inland waters. The Australian, Dalmatian, Great White, and American White pelicans make their nests on the ground, whereas, the Pink-backed, Spot-billed, Brown, and Peruvian build their nest in trees. Pelicans have short, but strong legs, and feet with webbed toes right for swimming. The Brown pelican’s wing stretches to 1.8 metres, while that of the Dalmatian is 3 metres. They don’t sing, but only croak and grunt. Pelicans have the largest bill, with a hook curved downwards on the edge of the upper bill, and a pouch attached to the lower. The brown pelicans have their habitats in the sea. Five species are white pelicans which are seen around fresh waters. There are eight species of pelicans and most of them are found in the coastal regions, including the coasts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Some species live inland through the breeding season, while others continue on the coasts. Pelicans are large water birds in the genus: Pelecanus. Whatever it is, pelicans belonging to the Order of Pelicaniformes, and the Storks to Ciconiiformes, have noticeable differences that attract our attention. Both of them don’t sing at all, and people have weaved fascinating myths around them through the centuries, though such legends are attributions to their nature of living. They are large bodied and endangered species. As usual this unique bird endangered bird, and has recently been rated as endangered birds.Where there are only about eight thousand birds in the forests, according to Bird Life, and as usual,human is the main reason, because the destruction of the environment led to the Elimination of bogs, which are the original environment,Where is the conversion of forests and swamps into arable land,in addition to overfishing and trafficking it because of its strange form and shape.Pelicans and Storks are two elegant migratory birds that can fly high up to longer distances. Shoebill simmers sexually after three or four years,Since the reconstruction of these birds up to 35 years, preferably the mating process takes place in the dry season to protect the nests from flooding,This bird prefers nested in the swamps, and place,the female lays two eggs and sometimes three eggs,Egg incubation period is 30 days only, the couple is alternately to guard their eggs. ![]() Shoebill or Pelican bird has a very specific behaviors, it is a bird likes to live alone and did not meet with any of his platoon Except in the mating period and then back again, solo.Despite the fearsome body but mild-mannered, rarely moving, communicating with his female.In the mating season by voice. Although his rescue of the silent night predators waiting to pounce on prey with great speed and accuracy And then swallowed up in just a few seconds,And when a prey fish cutting her head first before it eat it. "It feeds on anything moves."the observers found him greedily devoured mice, reptiles ,snakes and frogs,Also other small birds like amphibians and fish, even small crocodiles did not survive the huge beak. With blue-gray plumage, strong necks ,long legs, and a head resembling a shoe, so the Sudanese called it boot. Swan bird is somehow a large bird, its tall is up to about 120 cm, weighs about seven kilograms.While the length of the wings is about 2.30 meters,featured male swan bird with larger size. which increases the size of the head more than double up to 23 centimeter. "Abu Merkoub," or "Shoebill ," or "The whale's head," are all names of this strange bird, He settled for thousands of years in the African continent, living in the swamps of the Upper Nile, from Sudan to Uganda, to the south of the Congo And adjacent to the plains, and called the scientists of birds this name because of its huge beak. Despite belonging to the world of birds, the researchers of "ornithology" or the science of birds found it difficult to classify, In their opinion, there is no such thing as that strange creature, it is sometimes like a swan, "The swan is one of the finest living creatures on the surface of the earth, which is characterized by the size and length of wings, which may reach up to 10 feet (about 3 meters), and despite the magnitude, but God gave her bones hollow and light enables them to fly and fly To high heights of more than 10 thousand feet (3,000 meters) within warm currents", It is sometimes characterized by qualities of Stork and sometimes similar to the bird "Heron", but it doesn't belong to one of them.so It was classified as a separate race.
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