Pelecanus occidentalis

* Birds Brown Pelican

Pelicans At It

July 1, 2019June 26, 2019 Mosey2014 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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* Birds Brown Pelican Not BUOW

Brown Pelican Takes Off

January 1, 2019January 1, 2019 Mosey2014 Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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* Birds Brown Pelican

A Beautiful Pair

November 20, 2018November 12, 2018 Mosey2014 Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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* Birds Brown Pelican

A Pelican’s Shake

November 12, 2018November 6, 2018 Mosey2014 Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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* Birds Brown Pelican Bufflehead

Pelicans in Slow Motion

November 8, 2018November 3, 2018 Mosey2014 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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* Birds Brown Pelican

A Hundred Pelicans

August 31, 2018August 20, 2018 Mosey2014 Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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* Birds Brown Pelican

Plenty of Pelicans

August 22, 2018August 14, 2018 Mosey2014 Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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* Birds Brown Pelican

A Pelican Pow-Wow

July 17, 2018July 31, 2018 Mosey2014 Pelecanus occidentalis

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

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* Birds Brown Pelican Great Egret Snowy Egret

A Parley of Pelicans

June 9, 2018July 31, 2018 Mosey2014 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

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* 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 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 1, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment 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

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