Pelecanus occidentalis

* Birds Brown Pelican

Pelican Pond

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Marty Nicolaus 134 Views 1 Comment Pelecanus occidentalis

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

* Birds Brown Pelican Canada Goose

Shift Change

July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 Marty Nicolaus 84 Views 0 Comments Branta canadensis, Pelecanus occidentalis

The North Basin looked like Pelican Pond in the early morning hours. Once again, dozens of Brown Pelicans flew in

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Pelicans Back

July 10, 2021July 9, 2021 Marty Nicolaus 130 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

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

* Birds Brown Pelican

Great Pelican Pow-Wow

June 22, 2021June 26, 2021 Marty Nicolaus 162 Views 3 Comments Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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Mixed Method

January 25, 2021January 18, 2021 Marty Nicolaus 158 Views 2 Comments Pelecanus occidentalis

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

* Birds Brown Pelican

Pelican Bounce

November 26, 2020November 19, 2020 Marty Nicolaus 221 Views 2 Comments Kevin Steen, Pelecanus occidentalis

The Brown Pelican needs to bounce its feet off the water’s surface several times in order to get airborne. Here

* Birds Brown Pelican

Pelicans at Work

October 22, 2020October 20, 2020 Marty Nicolaus 276 Views 0 Comments Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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Many Pelicans

June 24, 2020June 25, 2020 Marty Nicolaus 430 Views 2 Comments James Kusz, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelecanus occidentalis

The minus 1.19 low tide in the morning brought out a large number of pelicans, including the rarely seen here

* Birds Brown Pelican Pelagic Cormorant Western Gull

Bird Frenzy

January 7, 2020January 6, 2020 Marty Nicolaus 805 Views 0 Comments Larus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax pelagicus

Pelicans, cormorants, and gulls combined in a mad feeding frenzy this morning, tracking a school of fish that erred into

* Birds Brown Pelican

Pelican’s Flight

November 13, 2019November 4, 2019 Marty Nicolaus 449 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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Pelican Pop-up

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 Marty Nicolaus 490 Views 0 Comments Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus

As if on a signal, dozens of Brown Pelicans descended out of a blue sky onto the waters of the

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Pelicans At It

July 1, 2019June 26, 2019 Mosey2014 438 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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Brown Pelican Takes Off

January 1, 2019January 1, 2019 Mosey2014 1054 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

I happened to be at the Open Circle Viewpoint, showing a young expert birder the “Owl on the Rocks,” when

* Birds Brown Pelican

A Beautiful Pair

November 20, 2018November 12, 2018 Mosey2014 949 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

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

* Birds Brown Pelican

A Pelican’s Shake

November 12, 2018November 6, 2018 Mosey2014 1229 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

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

* Birds Brown Pelican Bufflehead Featured Video

Pelicans in Slow Motion

November 8, 2018May 20, 2020 Mosey2014 1348 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

It was one of those days when Brown Pelicans, three of them, were hunting in the southern portion of the

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A Hundred Pelicans

August 31, 2018November 4, 2019 Mosey2014 1199 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

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

* Birds Brown Pelican

Plenty of Pelicans

August 22, 2018August 14, 2018 Mosey2014 992 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

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

* Birds Brown Pelican

A Pelican Pow-Wow

July 17, 2018July 31, 2018 Mosey2014 1049 Views Pelecanus occidentalis

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

* Birds Brown Pelican Great Egret Snowy Egret

A Parley of Pelicans

June 9, 2018July 31, 2018 Mosey2014 1320 Views Ardea alba, Egretta thula, Pelecanus occidentalis

Summer is here. The park is fading from green to brown. The masses of migrating shore and water birds have

* American Avocet American Coot American Crow American White Pelican American Wigeon Belted Kingfisher Birds Black Oystercatcher Black Phoebe Black Turnstone Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night Heron Black-necked Stilt Brown Pelican Bufflehead Burrowing Owl Canada Goose Clark's Grebe Common Goldeneye Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Eared Grebe Eurasian Wigeon Featured Video Forster's Tern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Greater Scaup Greater Yellowlegs Horned Grebe Least Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Mallard Marbled Godwit Mew Gull Northern Pintail Red-throated Loon Ring-billed Gull Ruddy Duck Snowy Egret Spotted Sandpiper Surf Scoter Turkey Vulture Western Grebe Western Gull Whimbrel White-tailed Kite Willet

North Basin: The Video

February 12, 2018May 20, 2020 Mosey2014 2459 Views 2 Comments Actitis macularius, Aechmophorus clarkii, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Anas acuta, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea alba, Ardea herodias, Arenaria melanocephala, Athene cunicularia, Aythya marila, Branta canadensis, Bucephala albeola, Bucephala clangula, Calidris minutilla, Cathartes aura, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Egretta thula, Elanus leucurus, Fulica americana, Gavia immer, Gavia stellata, Haematopus bachmani, Himantopus mexicanus, Larus canus, Larus delawarensis, Larus occidentalis, Limosa fedoa, Mareca americana, Mareca penelope, Megaceryle alcyon, Melanitta perspicillata, Numenius americanus, Numenius phaeopus, Nycticorax nycticorax, Oxyura jamaicensis, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Pluvialis squatarola, Podiceps auritus, Podiceps nigricollis, Recurvirostra americana, Sayornis nigricans, Sterna forsteri, Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa semipalmata

The North Basin is the body of water between Cesar Chavez Park and the Berkeley mainland. When I first started

* Birds Brown Pelican

Pelicans Getting Breakfast

January 7, 2018January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1159 Views 0 Comments Pelecanus occidentalis

These two Brown Pelicans worked the northern and western shores of the park hard this morning. Cruising at an altitude

* Birds Brown Pelican Extreme Tides Least Sandpiper Mallard Marbled Godwit

Magical Evening

December 1, 2017November 11, 2020 Mosey2014 1713 Views 0 Comments Anas platyrhynchos, Calidris minutilla, Limosa fedoa, Low Tide, Pelecanus occidentalis

It was one of those magical evenings at the park when the sun is setting in the west and the

* American Coot Black Oystercatcher Brown Pelican Bufflehead Great Blue Heron Mallard Western Gull White-Crowned Sparrow Willet

The Usual Feathered Suspects

November 12, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1291 Views 0 Comments Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea herodias, Bucephala albeola, Fulica americana, Haematopus bachmani, Larus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis, Tringa semipalmata, Zonotrichia leucophrys

The big news in the park this past week was the rain. Soon those brown hills will be green. In

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