Pelicans and Lake Eyre

["Thomas E. Nelson" <>]

G'Day All:  Edwin Vella and others have written about the huge population
of breeding Pelicans and other birds at the now very full Lake Eyre.  News
of that event has even been reported in the US.  On Thursday the American
Broadcasting Corp, our ABC, reported on the evening news about the birds.
The best part of the very short piece was the stunning aerial views of the
lake.  There were also some ground level shots and some comment that the
numbers of nesting birds were so large that birds were being killed by the
crowding.  I'm concerned about what will happen to the greatly increased
population when Lake Eyre goes back, as it inevitably will, to the way it
was.  
                        Tom Nelson, Corvallis, Oregon, USA


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