It is estimated that more than 3000 pairs of pelicans breed annually in the Danube Delta. Along with the cormorants, swans and ducks, they make up the largest contingent of the 176 species that breed in the area. Summer swans and big cormorants migrate to the Delta every summer from Asia, and the common and curly pelicans start their journey from Africa. Visiting a cormorant or pelican breeding colony is an awesome experience. Here, nature reigns supreme - cormorants, spoon-bills, egrets and herons share the colony ensuring that every vantage branch on the trees hosts a nest.
Bustling with life, the strictly protected colonies give the visitor a magical insight into the amazing world of nature. In the reed beds below, ducks and swans rear their young in nests camouflaged in the thick foliage.
An abundant food supply is provided in the surrounding waters of the Delta, where birds consume over 8,000 tonnes of fish every year
