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Pelicans and Lake Eyre

To: "Thomas E. Nelson" <>
Subject: Pelicans and Lake Eyre
From: Tony Russell <>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 21:33:15 +0900

Easy Tom, they'll go back to the coastal and other areas from whence they
came prior to Lake Eyre filling. Fear not, they are clever little buggers.
Tony.


At 10:50  21/05/00 -0700, you wrote:
>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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