10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Birds Brown Pelican nesting birds Peregrine Falcon' To make a long story short, I found the above video which I thought would be interesting to most birders since I had never seen or heard of Peregrine Falcon behavior like this. My audience was surprised as was I. I hope you enjoy it.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2014

We are entering a long boat and sail by the wooden poles in the water, decorated with Common Terns (and one Black Tern that I’ve dipped), towards the greatest attraction of the lake, the pelican colony. Dalmatian Pelicans – Photo (c) Georgos Spiridakis. Dalmatian Pelicans – nesting platform.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Here’s hoping they manage to save the Dalmation Pelicans , the world’s largest pelican. With the Caspian Sea frozen over for the first time in years Russian authorities are scrambling to feed the desperate birds that have no way to get to the fish beneath the ice.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2011

The American White Pelican ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ) is a huge bird! In breeding plumage, adult American White Pelicans have a distinct “centerboard&# or “horn&# on the ridge of their bill. I did see several American White Pelicans though, including this immature bird (click on photos for full sized images).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2019

Australian Pelicans – Pelecanus conspicillatus are easily observed at the Broome Poo Ponds as they roost on the banks of the ponds. The Australian Pelicans really can’t be mistaken for any other bird species and most people are familiar with Pelicans throughout the world. Australian Pelicans.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2019

One of these is Pelican Brewing Company of Pacific City, Oregon, with their Fly ‘N Dry Brut IPA, which we have to enjoy this week (thanks once again to fellow 10,000 Birds beat writer Jason Crotty for sending me a can!) Pelican Brewing Company. The post Pelican Brewing Company: Brut India Pale Ale appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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APRIL 20, 2011

HBO’s new documentary “SAVING PELICAN 895.” Directed by Academy-Award nominee Irene Taylor Brodsky (HBO’s “The Final Inch” and “Hear and Now”) the film is the story of the 895th pelican to be rescued and rehabilitated by a dedicated team of wildlife experts and everyday people, many of whom travel the world responding to oil disasters.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2012

A pelican is always a good bird to see in New York State. Both American White Pelicans and Brown Pelicans are rare but regular, almost always showing up at least annually, usually somewhere along the coast for Brown Pelicans and either along the coast or on Lake Erie or Lake Ontario for American White Pelicans.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

He’s talking about Brown Pelicans. “We He told me about last summer, when Bird Ally X received 246 Brown Pelicans covered not with petroleum, but with fish oil. Pelicans, waiting for a free meal, stood under the pipe and were seriously slimed. They eat like hogs, with 250 pelicans eating hundreds of pounds of smelt a day.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2017

In addition to sharks, barracuda, rays, and fishes, we had also spotted Double-crested Cormorants , Brown Pelicans , and Magnificent Frigatebirds. As we pulled to a stop at the sand bar and hopped out into the hip-deep water, I literally couldn’t believe my eyes: a flock of American White Pelicans. Mangrove island near Key West.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2024

Kerkini is shallow and is enormously productive, producing enough fish to feed a summer population of many thousands of Great Cormorants, along with hundreds of Great White and Dalmatian Pelicans, plus numerous other fish-eating birds. Both species of pelicans breed on the lake, with the Dalmatians the more numerous.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Pink-backed Pelican. Africa has two resident pelican species, the huge and widely distributed Great or Eastern White Pelican and the smaller Pink-backed which is restricted to Africa, the southern Arabian peninsula and Madagascar (where it may now be extinct.) Pink-backed Pelican by Markus Lilje/Rockjumper Birding Tours.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Common Nightingales were singing, a squadron of Dalmatian Pelicans was in the air and everything was exactly where it should be, including myself. At mid-day, we took a boat tour of the heronries and the pelican islands with Nikos. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic. Belles, rising steeply two kilometres (1.2

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

The northern half of the lake added Corn Bunting , European Turtle Dove , Dalmatian Pelican , Purple Heron , Eurasian Hobby , Eurasian Golden Oriole , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , and only the first of the several Masked Shrikes of the tour (cover photo by Kostas Papadopoulos).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Far below the ruins, a reservoir offered me a single Dalmatian Pelican. I had seen Great White Pelican s in Izmir, but the Dalmatian Pelican was a new-to-me inland bird. I did not see many species. But most of them were unique to this kind of terrain. Overhead, a Booted Eagle rode thermals slowly upward.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

According to evidence presented at trial: “The agents found the carcasses of approximately 90 brown pelicans, 17 great blue herons, five great egrets, four black-crowned night herons, four turkey vultures, two osprey, two gulls and one scaup. ” Birds are protected and can’t be shot at will, even in Texas.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

By November nearly all the White Pelicans have gone south (there always a chance of seeing a young bird that has been left behind), but you are certain to see plenty of Dalmatian Pelicans , one of Europe’s rarest birds, but a common resident here. They soon lose the colour as the spring progresses).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2015

Brown Pelicans are quite popular in Louisiana. One of the state’s nicknames is “The Pelican State,” the bird is on the state’s flag, the state seal, the state painting (yes, apparently states have official paintings), as well as on one of Louisiana’s bicentennial coins.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A distant American White Pelican on the East Pond was Corey’s 264th species in Queens this year, which tops his previous best by three species. Corey enjoyed some good birding on both Saturday and Sunday mornings. But his Best Bird of the Weekend was one he saw with his family on a visit to Jamaica Bay on Saturday evening.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2020

He missed Brown Pelicans , a Brown Booby , and dozens of Great Shearwaters. If you spend any time in the NYC Metro area, you know what I mean! While birders were out birding the coast of Queens on Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay hit New York City, Corey was stuck working.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Just look at the energy that goes into washing a single pelican. Then we walked over to the aviaries to see the Brown Pelicans. There were at least thirty pelicans rehabbing in the aviary along with a few gulls. [link] I quickly learned that there was much more to bird and wildlife rescue than I had previously known.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Among them are Dalmatian Pelicans , so big and lazy. We are approaching a large mudbar with some more Dalmatian Pelicans… and a flock of geese… dark, round-headed and short-billed, elongated white blaze on their faces – threatened and declining Lesser White-fronted Geese ! Should I add, a lifer, too.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2017

Several Glossy Ibises , two dozen Gull-billed Terns and Collared Pratincoles , a few Dalmatian Pelicans , Black Terns , Dunlins …. The birds are dying, he told me and continued, we found dead Grey Heron , Little Egret and a threatened Dalmatian Pelican today. This year, we had about 65 dead pelicans. What is killing them?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The competition lines up A contestant prepares The finish line Next time you’re birding the Coastal Bend of Texas, be sure to stop in at the Pickled Pelican. The loser buys the winner a beer. And don’t forget your bins and your 40-grit sandpaper.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

Further south, heading towards the dam, is a cove from where Nikos Gallios sails out for Dalmatian Pelican photography tours. Winter is the high-season here when it comes to photographing pelicans because their beaks are at their brightest and the most handsome. I was on two of these and I highly recommend them. Sure, why not.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2021

The Guinness toucan is easily the most iconic bird mascot in beer history, but the storied Dublin brewery also boasted an ostrich and a pelican in its colorful, avian advertising menagerie of yesteryear.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2014

On our second day upon arrival, we were in his Land Cruiser searching the Tuzla Lagoon (in Roman times, the harbour city of Bargilia) where we observed Spur-winged Lapwings and Dalmatian Pelicans ; the Bodrum Peninsula interior – a Lanner Falcon (my last one, so far – still, not the first one) and a Short-toed Snake Eagle with a snake dangling from (..)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2011

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be meeting on Wednesday and will be voting on the removal of sixteen species from the state’s endangered species list , including four birds – Snowy Egret , Brown Pelican , Limpkin , and White Ibis.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

American White Pelican. A Brown Pelican would be a nice bird to add to the Queens list. Brown Pelican is missing from my Queens list and this is an ideal weekend to hit the beach. An Elegant Tern would be an amazing 300th bird! Red-necked Stint. Virginia’s Warbler. Black-bellied Whistling Duck. Little Gull.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

Dalmatian Pelicans and Eurasian Spoonbills were flying above the beach, sometimes above the hotel garden, while Golden Oriole and Scops Owl could be heard. We were based at the end of Porto Lagos, overlooking the sea and constantly having a salty sea breeze. I do not remember such salt-scented air anywhere else in Greece.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2020

Numerous Black Vultures , Snowy Egrets and Brown Pelicans were also present. Brown Pelican. Thanks to the alarm I managed to see almost 30 Semipalmated Sandpipers – they were previously hidden within the endless, formless details of the intertidal mudflats. American Flamingos and Semipalmated Sandpipers.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Then there was this wonderful pair of Brown Pelicans from Puerto Vallarta, who were amazingly nonchalant about my presence. This one was from very early in my photographic “career”, when I still had a shorter lens that almost never took such good images. I somehow doubt the boat was theirs.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The next one, the lagoon of Vatatsa (at the eastern side of the Valtos Bay), offered a lot more egrets, one Squacco Heron , two distant Dalmatian Pelicans and quite a few little things chirping from their hiding places in the tamarisk bushes by the road. Yet, beside a few Little and one Great Egret , a raft of Eurasian Coots , no birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

I’ve birded that part of the United States more than a couple of times but nonetheless look forward to the constant pelicans and Purple Martins! The reason I mention vacation birding is that I’m headed down to Virginia Beach this weekend for sun, sand, and who knows what else. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2011

Or how he once rode a pair of Brown Pelicans from San Francisco to Cape May because he heard Pete Dunne needed some help identifying raptors. Tales like how he’s the only one with all forty-seven Red Crossbill species already figured out and checked off his life list. Or how…well, you get the idea.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

Waterbirds like pelicans and cormorants make the most of the chevron formation as well. Sometimes a bird is better off going it alone. We know that big birds like waterfowl such as ducks and geese benefit from the flying-V. But according to a study published in Nature , flying in a messy flock does birds like pigeons no favors.

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