Watching pelicans land on water. Nothing more complicated than water skiing in cold weather.
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All photos of American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos).
Watching pelicans land on solid ground isn’t quite as exciting. They’re not clumsy or awkward about it, but it involves more aerial braking and some hopping-cum-trotting that ends quickly.
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The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos). Quite large. Cooperative fishers. Gregarious. Blindingly white but for the stark black trailing edge of the wingtips. They visit year after year. When the whole gang comes together, it can be a fantastical sight as these behemoths glide in silently for a smooth water…
October 26, 2008
In "Nature Photos"
It starts with a few ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis)... ...and rapidly grows to a lot of ring-billed gulls along with a lot of American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos). Imagine the cacophony...
December 11, 2006
In "Nature Photos"
After a few hundred American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) showed up close to the same pier I was haunting, an equal number of ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) and herring gulls (Larus argentatus) swooped in for some unknown reason. I posted a few photos yesterday from that event. Today, you can…
December 12, 2006
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