A Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus has been captured on an oil platform on the Dutch Continental Shelf on 28 may 2001. Recently new pictures have surfaced, which show that the same bird slept on another oil platform the night before.

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H. Verdaat. (2008). Roze Pelikaan Pelecanus onocrotalus overnacht op olieplatforms op de Noordzee. Sula, 21(2), 72–73.