YOUNG pelicans may soon test out their wings and visit the Mildura area following a huge breeding surge in regional NSW.

About 30,000 pelicans recently gathered at breeding events at Lake Brewster in the Lachlan Valley, and at Kieeta Lake in the Murrumbidgee Valley, which has only once before recorded pelican nesting – in 2016.

Dr John Porter, a senior scientist at NSW Planning and Environment...