Pelecanus occidentalis

The Brown Pelicans we see here fairly often, and a distant Peruvian cousin, are the only members of the pelican

These two were keeping close company on the North Basin waters, taking to the air and then diving together. The

The full moon flexed its muscle today. Overnight it pulled up the waters of the North Basin over the seawalls

Two weeks after the mammoth pelican pow-wow, where several hundred of the great birds descended to feed on the North

I thought I had missed them. As I was parking, I saw a big flock of Brown Pelicans in the

If it’s a Brown Pelican, how come its neck is white? Answer: that’s how they get when they’re not breeding.

Brown Pelicans were hard at work this morning, taking off, soaring, then plunge-diving for fish, and repeat. The hunting must

Brown Pelicans have been visiting the North Basin in modest numbers this past week, while my camera was busy with

Two and then three Brown Pelicans found the North Basin easy pickings this afternoon. This short video shows them taking

Brown Pelicans sometimes flock to the North Basin, the body of water east of the park, in large numbers; more

A Brown Pelican sitting in the water not far away did something not very remarkable.  It stretched its neck, shook

More pelicans than I’ve ever seen before in one place gathered on the North Basin at the minus .7 tide

I rarely saw Brown Pelicans on the water in the North Basin until recently.  When seven of them appeared at

The last time I saw this many pelicans here, they were dive bombing a herring run.  No grown herring visited