The masters of the skies
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PELICANS AND RELATIVES
In this group, mostly pelicans and cormorants prevail. Cormorants are water birds living along lakes, rivers and coasts. Their main characteristics are their black or grey plumage, long wedge-shaped tail, large bill hooked at the tip, and long neck.
PYGMY CORMORANT
Phalacrocorax pygmeus
At the Sečovlje salt-pans, this cormorant is a scarce visitor, considering that it has been seen here only on a couple of occasions.
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SHAG
Phalacrocorax aristotelis
The Shag, too, occurs at sea in front of the Sečovlje pans, except that it is not as numerous as its bigger relative, the Cormorant.
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At: 12:30
Temperature: 24 °C
Wind direction: NW Wind speed: 3 m/s
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