perhaps 1,200 pairs nested (for an overview of old breeding records see 
Kagi-Hubmann 1992). The presence of White Pelicans during the breeding 
season has often led to the presumption of breeding. There is a large 
number of records from May (see Kagi-Hubmann 1992 for records 
mainly up to 1986) and recent observations include 600 on 18 May 1987 
(erroneously included as P. crispus in Ertan et al 1987), 275 birds observed 
by the first author and G Kirwan on 1 June 1991 and 250 birds in 1993, of 
which only 23 pairs were breeding. 
It had been assumed that the White Pelican had not bred in Turkey since 
1974 (Crivelli et al, 1991), but Kagi-Hubmann (1992) published the 
details of a colony consisting of 30-50 pairs at Karapinar Ovasi in 1985, 
with no birds there during 1987 and 1991 . At present, the Eregli Marshes 
are the site of the second known Turkish colony in addition to that at 
Seyfe Golii (discovered in 1992 by DHKD and Alan Johnson, with 155 
chicks counted on 26 June 1992 [Yarar and Ozesmi pers. comm.], and 
breeding was again confirmed in 1993 by the first author. 
Acknowledgements 
Dr Alan Johnson (Biological Station Tour du Valat, France) started, and organised 
funding for, the aerial surveys in 1991 and 1992 that provided much new 
information on the status of the Greater Flamingo. We are grateful to Guy Kirwan 
and Alan Johnson for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. 
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