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Dalmatian Pelican | Prespa Lakes
Updated: Dec 5, 2019
The Dalmatian pelican is the largest freshwater bird in the world.

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Today, only up to 10,000–20,000 pelicans exist at the species level. Although there were once millions of Dalmatian pelicans, even only in Romania, during the 20th century the species' numbers underwent a dramatic decline for reasons that are not entirely understood, most likely by habitat loss due to human activities such as the drainage of wetlands and land development.
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