Dalmatian Pelican

Pelicans on Skadar Lake in Montenegro. Photo: PR Centar

Bojan Zekovic of the Centre for the Study and Protection of Birds, CRZP, said that 15 pelicans at the lake had died since the first case of avian flu was registered in Montenegro in April 6.

Conservationists and the European Union say any plan must safeguard Ulcinj Salina's importance to migratory birds, but an unresolved ownership dispute is frustrating efforts to set those protections in stone.

Flamingos in the abandoned salt plantations near Ulcinj, Montenegro. Photo: Center for the Protection and Study of Birds

Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic said the government's Privatization and Capital Projects Council rejected the request of the bankrupt private salt company Bajo Sekulic for property rights to the area.

The Greater Menderes Delta, one of the most important wetlands in Turkey in the western province of Aydın, is home to 256 bird species, mainly the Dalmatian pelicans. The delta was launched as a national park in 1994 and joined with the Dilek Peninsula, which has rich resources in biodiversity.

Wild animals have entered the colony of Dalmatian Pelicans in Bulgaria's Srebarna Nature Reserve and have scared them. Video surveillance footage shows that an animal has eaten some of the eggs and the birds have moved.

There is an increased number of Dalmatian pelican pairs in the Nature Reserve "Srebarna" this year, with an average of 20 families returning in the first warmer weeks, reports BNT.

Staff from the Greek Wildlife Hospital on the Saronic island of Aegina release a pelican into the wild at Kerkini Lake in northern Greece, in this photo released Monday.

A rosy pelican and two Dalmatian pelicans - both of which are endangered species - were returned to their natural habitat after receiving treatment for injuries and being tagged with a tracking device.

A pelecanus crispus was found dead at Evros Delta National Park of in Trace, Northern Greece.

It was spotted by members of Hellenic Ornithological Society and Forest Service of Alexandroupolis when they were conducting a joint patrol.

The number of the most widespread birds in Bulgaria has decreased with 21 % over the past eight years.

However the diversity of birds remains broad, with 70 % of all kinds of birds inhabiting Europe found in Bulgaria, private bTV station reports.

Out of the 420 kinds of birds that can be found in Bulgaria, 26 of them are world endangered species.