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Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus
Status.
Category A and E
Native Range
Europe and Asia. Breeding range is from SE Europe eastwards to Kazakhstan and western Mongolia. Also in parts of Turkeyand western China. Western population winter around the eastern Mediterranean, those from central Asia in southern Iraq, Iran and India whilst those in Mongolia move to eastern China.
Conservation Status
Near Threatened
British Occurrence
NBN atlas has 293 records as at end 2024. Map Here.
The species was already on category E prior to 2016 when one spent the summer in Cornwall and Devon. The same bird had previously been seen in Poland and later in France and Germany. The BOURC decided that this occurence was, on the balance of probabilities a natural occurence and the species placed on Cat A, though it also remains on Category E. All but three of the 293 records mentioned above refer to the 2016 summering bird.
