After disappearing for more than a hundred years, a dalmation pelican, one of the most threatened species, has been seen at the Land's End area in Cornwall,UK.
Birdwatchers were enthralled to have witnessed the prehistoric looking bird in the British landscape.
According to Mirror UK, the bird with 11 and a half feet wingspan passed by the territory due to last weekend's humid weather.
Photographs of a majestic bird circulated on social media. Based on analyzing photos, experts conclude it might be the same species recently seen in Poland and Germany.
"If this bird is indeed a wild bird it would be the first ever occurrence of the species in Britain in modern times," said Brian Egan, general manager at Rare Bird Alert UK told The Herald.
He also said it might just be the first of its kind to pass by UK.
Photographer Josef Fitzgerald-Patrick described the bird as "nothing you have ever seen before." The teenager is just one of the lucky few who were able totake snaps of the iconic bird. He spent three hours sighting the bird just to get a beautiful shot of it.
Dalmatian Pelican is a red-billedbird that is native in Russia, Asia and Eastern Europe particularly at Lake Mikri Prespa in Greece.
A Goliath of a bird, it is the largest of the pelican species and one of the biggest living bird species in the world.
Birdlife.org describes it as a huge whitish waterbird with silvery-white breeding lumage and yellow to purple bare skin.
Its breeding site is usually on isolated islands to avoid predators.
Twitchers who tally rare bird said it is on their lists of authentic sighting.
According to Cornwall Birding, a premier birding website the dalmatian pelican was last seen circling over Alsia Mill at 10:52 on May 12.