The White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus bred regularly in the Mandra-Burgas marshes, along the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, until at least 1944 (Prostov 1964), with sporadic breeding recorded until 1958 (Arabadjiev 1974). In 1966, two pairs of White Pelicans attempted to breed in the Srebarna Nature Reserve, near the Danube, but this attempt failed (Paspaleva & Mitchev 1968). The Srebarna rese

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