Pelecanus occidentalis

Mixed Method

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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