Thousands of migrating pelicans get giveaway lunch in Israel
ISRAEL: A revisit from tens of thousands of migrating pelicans might be a present for bird-watchers, though for Israeli fish farmers it can be costly. In response, Israeli authorities have taken to feeding a birds to assistance safety a farms stocks.
Staff members of staff during a fountainhead in Mishmar Hasharon feed a pelicans with 6 tonnes of fish 3 to 4 times a week, during a 3 months that a pelicans are drifting over Israel, in a plan saved by a Israeli Agriculture Ministry.
Estimates of a series of birds that pass over Israel any year operation from 75,000 to over 100,000. They quit from southern Europe to spend a winters in executive Africa.
“When they pass here they make a lot of repairs in a pools of a fish,” Zvika Gerber, CEO of Afikei Emek Hefer Communal Water Company, told Reuters.
“They eat here and in a north, and afterwards they have adequate food to continue to a south of Sudan.”