Crowds gather to watch the pelican that flew in to Cornwall

The only wild pelican to be seen in Britain in modern times has been attracting birders to Cornwall all summer. But pelicans were here 2000 years ago. Might they return?It flew in like a seaplane, scattering a flotilla of what looked like small boats as it landed on the waters of the estuary. I blinked, and an avian image displaced this aeronautical one: for it wasn’t an aircraft, but a bird.A Dalmatian pelican (Pelicanus crispus), to be precise: named not because it has a black spotted pl