Pelican bird. Weltvogelpark Walsrode. Germany
Channel: Fritids Tur
Date: 2019-12-21

Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean.
Weltvogelpark Walsrode (German pronunciation: [ˈvɛltfoːɡl̩paːʁk valsˈʀoːdə]; English before 2010: Walsrode Bird Park) is a bird park located in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany within the municipality of Bomlitz near Walsrode in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Weltvogelpark Walsrode is the largest bird park in the world in terms of species as well as land area  (The Jurong Bird Park in Singapore claims the largest number of individual birds), It covers 24 hectares (59 acres) and houses some 4,400 birds of over 675 species from every continent and climatic zone in the world. The Weltvogelpark Walsrode celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2012.

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