{"id":13254,"date":"2021-05-23T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/?p=13254"},"modified":"2021-05-23T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T09:38:18","slug":"the-fourth-southeastern-european-pelican-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/the-fourth-southeastern-european-pelican-census\/","title":{"rendered":"The fourth Southeastern European Pelican Census"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dalmatian Pelicans, \u00a9 Svilen Cheshmedziev<\/em><\/p>\n

The fourth Southeastern European Pelican Census took place on 15th<\/sup> May 2021. It aimed at gathering information about the number and distribution of the endangered species Pelecanus crispus <\/em>(Dalmatian pelican) and Pelecanus onocrotalus<\/em> (Great white pelican) in the region. The event was organized within the project \u201cPelican Way of LIFE\u201d and was coordinated by the Hellenic ornithological society (HOS).<\/p>\n

Teams from Bulgarian Society for Protection of Birds (BSPB) also participated in the international initiative. They visited the wetlands that are of greatest importance to the two pelican species in Bulgaria \u2013 Srebarna Lake, Persin Island, protected area \u201cKalimok-Brashlen\u201d, Burgas Lakes, the dams Ovcharitsa and Rozov Kladenets, Varna lake, the island near Gorni Tsibar, and others.<\/p>\n

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Great white pelicans, \u00a9 Zornitsa Petkova<\/p><\/div>\n

513 Dalmatian and 575 Great white pelicans in total were counted in Bulgaria. The greatest number of Dalmatian pelicans were observed in the swamps on Persin Island \u2013 176 birds, Studen Kladenets dam \u2013 118 birds, and Lake Srebarna \u2013 70 birds.\u00a0 The greatest number of Great white pelicans were observed in Rozov Kladenets dam \u2013 211, Burgas Lake \u2013 100, and in the area of the mouth of Fakiiska River \u2013 85 birds. During the Census special attention was paid to the four nesting colonies of Dalmatian pelicans in Bulgaria \u2013 Srebarna Lake, Peschina swamp, Dead Marsh, and protected area \u201cKalimok-Brashlen\u201d. At the first two sites, our teams observed young pelicans, while in the later two nesting sites we are still looking forward to the hatchlings.<\/p>\n

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Dalmatian Pelicans, \u00a9 Svilen Cheshmedziev<\/p><\/div>\n

The data gathered will contribute to a better knowledge of the two pelican species and to the conservation activities in Southeast Europe. Trans border cooperation is of key importance for the protection of these birds.<\/p>\n

The actions for protecting the Dalmatian pelican are carried out within the project \u201cPelican Way of LIFE<\/a>\u201d \u00a0(LIFE18\/NAT\/NL\/000716), funded by the LIFE Programme of the European Union and with the assistance of the Whitl\u0435y Fund for Nature.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Great white pelicans, \u00a9 Zornitsa Petkova<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dalmatian Pelicans, \u00a9 Svilen Cheshmedziev The fourth Southeastern European Pelican Census took place on 15th May 2021. It aimed at gathering information about the number and distribution of the endangered species Pelecanus crispus (Dalmatian pelican) and Pelecanus onocrotalus (Great white pelican) in the region. The event was organized within the project \u201cPelican Way of LIFE\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[265],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-13254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dalmatian-pelican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13254"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=13254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}