Pelicans all sorts
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Sundance Power Plant. Parkland County, Alberta.
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The Pelicans at Beaumaris Lake here in Edmonton are providing us with many great photo ops. I posted two images.
Beaumaris Lake. Edmonton Alberta.
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It's just a normal pelican, nothing special, but I was so happy to finally be able to go to the zoo again.
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Es ist nur ein normaler Pelikan, nichts besonderes, aber ich war so glücklich, endlich wieder mal in den Zoo gehen zu können.
Hermitage Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
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Coming in for a landing. Taken in Estero, Florida.
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The Australian Pelican has the longest bill of any living bird. This Pelican was riding the updraughts at Red Point, Port Kembla.
Number 5 in the series folks,hope your not getting tired of my nonsense. This is a very large bird and had never seen this behavior where he could just spring himself into action and take off, usually they have to make a running start to get airborne, but not so in this case, that said I have 2 more and this will end the series of my Pelican adventure.
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This pelican was as interested in people as we were in her. She had great personality and did lots of poses for those of us taking pictures.
Ocean City NJ.
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Taken in Cypress Hills, which is a beautiful oasis in the middle of the prairies. It is an interprovincial park located in the 2 provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. We only went to the Alberta side.
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We went to Fort DeSoto Park in St. Petersburg, Florida looking for the reddish egret and the white morph. I got this shot early in the morning. Brown pelicans are so common in Florida that I doubted I would even process it. However, when I looked at it, I liked it. I almost had to squint, just like I did when I took the shot. Anyway, here it is.
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FlyFisherMike and I spotted several of these feeding in the lower channel at Sardis Dam in Mississippi. However, this young bird caught something after several attempts.
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A beautiful, sunny Saturday at Las Gallinas Water Treatment Plant. It never ceases to amaze us when we see this prehistoric looking bird. Fossil evidence of pelicans dates back to at least 30 million years to the remains of a beak very similar to that of modern species recovered from Oligocene strata in France. The American white pelican is one of the longest birds native to North America. The species also has the second largest average wingspan of any North American bird, after the California condor.
On our visit to one of our favorite spots we spotted this beautiful Pelican. It reminded us of the movie "Pelican Dreams," a documentary by Judy Irving. It's about a Pelican named GG who landed on the Golden Gate bridge with an injured wing and who's rescue, rehabilitation and final release is documented. This piqued our interest in taking this shot of this juvenile. The juvenile pelican is easily identified by the brown feathers on its head and wings. Adult American White Pelicans are all white with black on their wing tips.
Great white pelicans
Seen at L'Oceanogràfic oceanarium/aquarium in the central lake.
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