About half the world’s white pelicans and over 60 percent of the world’s pygmy cormorants breed within the Danube Delta. Also, nearly all of the world’s red - breasted geese ​ — a globally threatened species — ​ spend the winter here.
Te ligzdo aptuveni puse pasaules sārto pelikānu un vairāk nekā 60 procenti pundurkormorānu, turklāt deltā ziemo gandrīz visa globāli apdraudēto sarkankakla zosu populācija.