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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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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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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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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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APRIL 19, 2011

Now HBO Documentary Films presents Saving Pelican 895 , the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this life and so many others.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Though he destroyed more than 1,000 nests worth of chicks and eggs of the American White Pelican nearly obliterating a colony on land he rented, a guilty plea by Minnesota farmer Craig Staloch means that he faces, at most, six months in jail.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

However, there was no mistaking them: we had happened across a large flock of American White Pelicans ! If you’re like me, you probably picture pelicans along oceans or seas, bobbing in the salt or brackish water as they feed in their bright groups. I blinked a few times, at first not believing my own vision.

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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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AUGUST 2, 2017

Gulls, terns and pelicans are all subjected to the predatory nature of the frigatebirds. Just about the time the Osprey got its catch airborne, a small flock of American White Pelicans came screaming in, in an attempt to get that fish away from the Osprey. I have never seen any kind of pelican exhibit this kind of behavior.

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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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APRIL 18, 2024

I tried many times with varying degrees of success – the Dalmatian Pelicans ( below ) were one of my better efforts. Dalmatian pelicans : digiscoping flying birds is a challenge. However, it does have its disadvantages, chief of which is the difficulty of photographing flying birds.

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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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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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MAY 23, 2024

An American White Pelican with its landing gear down A rare upside to this situation is that it has allowed me to do some long overdue work on a byproduct of my birding obsession. Believe me, Staphylococcus aurea is not the kind of species I would choose to write about on 10,000 Birds.

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APRIL 5, 2023

For me, there is little difference between this experience and another where the birds are habituated to human presence, pelicans coming in to grab bycatch from fishermen or storks at a landfill even. They are all free-flying and can choose to stay or leave as they please.

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MAY 26, 2019

As such, his Best Bird of the Weekend is the Brown Pelican , a bird that always amazes Corey in places where they are common. Seeing a squadron on pelicans just past where hundreds of beach goers swim is always an interesting juxtaposition. Though he’s seen some decor birds he hasn’t been actively birding very much. How about you?

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Kerkini is a safe bet for all the European herons, plus Spoonbills and both Dalmatian and White Pelicans. I found a singing Olive Tree Warbler, too, but it didn’t want to have its photograph taken.

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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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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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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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APRIL 22, 2018

I dropped in at Montezuma NWR before the errant American White Pelican could pull itself away from the carp-filled canal. Only the awesome rarity and pelican pulchritude of this vagrant could top the other amazing birds at Montezuma right now.

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MARCH 28, 2024

This time, they counted 3,000 Northern Shovelers , 1,000 Green-winged Teals , 2,800 American Avocets , 2,150 Stilt Sandpipers , 820 Long-billed Dowitchers , 1,000 Least Sandpipers , 500 Western Sandpipers , and 150 American White Pelicans , along with lesser numbers for 30 other species.

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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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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

And this remnant lake is very, very birdy: The dominant birds, besides those American White Pelicans seen at the right, were Northern Shovelers — hundreds of them. (A recent local news article says its current maximum depth is 60 cm/2 feet, although I didn’t test this statement.)

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Also Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans are resident species, breeding successfully on artificial platforms (close to 300 pairs). Next to them, Whiskered and Black Terns nest on floating leaves of White Water-lilies. Other important breeding species include Black and White Stork , Lesser Spotted , White-tailed , and Booted Eagle.

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MAY 31, 2024

Of course, Lake Kerkini is really best known for its water birds – herons and pelicans, cormorants and grebes – which I will write about next week. However, that doesn’t stop it being mobbed mercilessly by anything from Swallows to Hooded Crows. The post The Magic of Kerkini in May first appeared on 10,000 Birds.

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