Spot-billed Pelican fishing

These massive creatures make it look so easy and gracefully... :)

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JohnR

Lion

I think my shot and the reference shot on the right where taken split seconds apart from different angles! :O Posted 10 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Hehe, quite the coincedence!
  
  Note that those so-called species "cover" photos are calculated from karma. That means that your photo could be there (if it collects enough karma). So there's thousands of opportunities, given the amount of species.
  
  Even more actually. If your photo becomes a species' cover photo, it can next rise up further in the tree of life. Posted 10 years ago

The Spot-billed pelican

The spot-billed pelican or grey pelican, is a member of the pelican family. It breeds in southern Asia from southern Pakistan across India east to Indonesia. It is a bird of large inland and coastal waters, especially large lakes. At a distance they are difficult to differentiate from other pelicans in the region although it is smaller but at close range the spots on the upper mandible, the lack of bright colours and the greyer plumage are distinctive.

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Similar species: Pelicans, Herons, Ibises

Species identified by JohnR