The snowy white pelican waddled along the banks and mingled with the cormorants.

A rare white pelican normally found in the warmer climes of southern Europe has set up home in rural Kent.

Fish and Wildlife Service, said that biologists were monitoring a handful of oil-tainted wildlife, including Canada geese, a white pelican and a heron.

The white pelican is a huge bird weighing over fifteen pounds and having a wingspread of up to nine and a half feet.

Common tern, knot, American white pelican, Hudsonian godwit, trumpeter swan, long-billed curlew, snowy heron, Hudsonian curlew, American avocet, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, dowitcher, passenger pigeon.