The Nature Foundation St Maarten Researches the Current Status of the National Bird Population the ‘Brown Pelican’ on our Island. | SMN News

PHILIPSBURG:— In the coming months, the Nature Foundation will determine the population status of the Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) by conducting pelican counts on several important birding locations around the island. Collecting data about Pelicans is important to provide information about the population and resulting threats in Sint Maarten. The new research results of the national bird will be compared with those of past years, the Foundation already monitors the population since 2010. This research is an important component of the Pelican monitoring project, the annual data is necessary to create a long-term study about St Maarten´s national bird,

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