American Brown Pelicans

by Ginger Stein

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American Brown Pelicans

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Ginger Stein

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Photograph - Bird Photography

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Brown Pelicans are huge, stocky seabirds. They have thin necks and very long bills with a stretchy throat pouch used for capturing fish. Their wings are very long and broad and are often noticeably bowed when the birds are gliding. Brown Pelicans feed by plunging into the water, stunning small fish with the impact of their large bodies and scooping them up in their expandable throat pouches. When not foraging, pelicans stand around fishing docks, jetties, and beaches or cruise the shoreline. In flight, lines of pelicans glide on their broad wings, often surfing updrafts along wave faces or cliffs. Brown Pelicans live along southern and western sea coasts and are rarely seen inland (except at the Salton Sea in California, where they are regular in large numbers). They nest in colonies, often on isolated islands free of land predators. I paddled near this particular pair in the Ten Thousand Island area of Everglades National Park, Florida, USA.
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-- Wild Birds of the World 11/02/19

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July 29th, 2018

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