In recent weeks, testimonials have multiplied on social networks. Some Brennous wonder after seeing a large shadow above the ponds or being flown over by a somewhat exotic bird…
A white pelican has settled in Mezières-en-Brenne. “We see birds around here! Storks, spoonbills, sometimes even ibis… but a pelican! Never! He’s probably a tourist“laughs Jean-Louis Camus, the mayor of the town where this strange bird seems to have settled.
Where does the Brenne pelican come from?
But then where does it come from? The simplest solution seems the most likely: would it have escaped from the High Key, in Obterre? The reserve strongly denies: “We only have Dalmatian pelicans and this is a white pelican. Besides, we don’t miss any“.
Jean-Louis Camus also conducted his little investigation: ” The director of the Chérine reserve observed it with a telescope and he was able to read the ring. He would come from Beauval“.
But Beauval formally denies : they lack no pelicans.
So where did the animal escape from? The answer may come from our colleagues at France Bleu Poitou. A specimen of the same genus was observed for several weeks in a nature reserve near Poitiers, just over an hour as the crow flies from Mézières-en-Brenne (the pelican can reach 50 km/h according to specialists…). Our colleagues had established that he had escaped from the Thoiry zoological reserve.
In the meantime, the pelican is”in Olympic form” after Jean-Louis Camus. “He goes from pond to pond, he returns in the evening. It’s a curiosity! He comes home in the evening because he knows that in Mézières, he will be well received!“
One more bird to observe in the long list of specimens present in Brenne.