2007Protected Species - Pelican - First Day Cover

Protected animal species Skadarsko Lake is one of national parks in Montenegro. Mild climate, exuberant vegetation and available food contributed that Skadarsko Lake became the biggest bird reservation in Europe. As water birds' habitat, Skadarsko Lake was enlisted by the Ramsar Con-vention into the world lists of the internationally recognized swamps in the year 1996. National park's mascot and its protective mark is a curly pelican which is an Euro-pean rarity. Its scientific name is Pelecanus crispus. Only this kind of pelicans live in the Skadarsko lake as the other, similar kind of pelicans, co called white pelicans (pelecanus onocrotalus) hasn't been officially identified in this area. Curly pelican is the biggest among all pelicans. It has extraordinary flying, swimming and fishing capacities.