17/07/2018
The French Bird Commission
(Commission de l’Avifaune Française; CAF) has voted unanimously to add Dalmatian Pelican to Category A of the French
bird List.
The addition is based on an adult
observed in Jura department (eastern France, south-east of Dijon) on 2 May 2010
and then at Lac du Bourget, Savoy, on 4 May. This particular bird had
previously been observed in several European countries having first been seen
in Hungary in February, the month in which most adults arrive back at
breeding colonies in the species' home range.
An adult Dalmatian Pelican seen
in Alsace in 2016, which had previously been seen in several European countries
(including Poland) and later arrived in Cornwall, England, on 7
May, lingering in south-west England until mid-November of that year,
is still pending acceptance, although evidence points strongly in the favour of
this also being a wild bird. Further records of immatures have all been
assigned to Category E, either because it was established that they were
definitely escapees, either because observations corresponded to known
individuals being at large or because they showed similar movement patterns to
known escapees and there was no good evidence in favour of a wild origin.
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