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brown pelican

  1. Incomparable

    Incomparable

    Without that enormous transport plane for comparison, Brown Pelicans still look big. Not the biggest birds in the world, but definitely above the median.
    • Doc Duck
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    • brown pelican pelecanus occidentalis
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: North America
  2. Plane-spotter story part 3: We can do a motorcade too!

    Plane-spotter story part 3: We can do a motorcade too!

    One last comedy shot for the plane-spotter story. It seems the birds had picked up on what was going on at the airport that day too. "Oooh! Motorcade vehicles arriving? We can do a motorcade too!" So here is a "motorcade" of Double-crested Cormorants heading southwards along the bay with Brown...
    • Doc Duck
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    • brown pelican double-crested cormorant pelicanus occidentalis phalacrocorax auritus
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: North America
  3. Brown pelicans

    Brown pelicans

    A colony on the cliffs at Dinosaur Caves Park in Pismo Beach, CA. This was a nice place to photograph pelicans. I had a nice chance at a BIF, but muffed the focus point.
    • MelospizaMelodiaFan
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  4. Brown Pelican

    Brown Pelican

    Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis)
    • Stanley Jones
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    • brown pelican costa rica la ensenada lodge pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis puntarenas province
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  5. Friday fun 2: the counting challenge

    Friday fun 2: the counting challenge

    This is just one small section of the shortest of three stone breakwaters packed with birds. Another breakwater is blurred in the background; the third was full of people fishing and that one and the fourth are not visible in this shot. There are at least three species showing in this shot, and...
    • Doc Duck
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    • brown pelican double-crested cormorant heermann's gull larus heermanni pelicanus occidentalis phalacrocorax auritus
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: North America
  6. Friday fun shot: Woops! Missed the landing gear

    Friday fun shot: Woops! Missed the landing gear

    Brown peli's have at least three ways of hitting the water. They can dive, kind of Peregrinelike, wings folded back and bill first straight down into a school of fish for a catch. They can skid to a stop on extended feet. Or they can stretch their feet and wings out as brakes but then tip...
    • Doc Duck
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    • brown pelican pelicanus occidentalis
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: North America
  7. Landing gear extended

    Landing gear extended

    Brown Pelican going in for a landing at Pillar Point Harbor
    • Doc Duck
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    • brown pelican pelecanus occidentali
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: North America
  8. Brown Pelican

    Brown Pelican

    Brown Pelican swimming
    • wildwoodlander
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    • brown pelican ecuador pelecanus occidentalis pelican
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  9. Brown Pelican

    Brown Pelican

    • STM
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    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  10. Another posing nicely

    Another posing nicely

    Brown Pelican Brown Pelicans are huge, stocky seabirds. They have thin necks and very long bills with a stretchy throat pouch used for capturing fish. Their wings are very long and broad and are often noticeably bowed when the birds are gliding.
    • KC Foggin
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    • brown pelican myrtle beach sc pelecanus occidentalis usa
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: North America
  11. The Eastern Version..

    The Eastern Version..

    ...of the Brown Pelican. Driven almost to extinction twice—first by hunting and later by pesticides including DDT—the Brown Pelican is today a shining example of the success of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the work of the Environmental Protection Agency.
    • KC Foggin
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    • brown pelican myrtle beach pelecanus occidentalis south carolina usa
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: North America
  12. Brown Pelican.jpg

    Brown Pelican.jpg

    Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis) Cargo ship in the background.
    • Stanley Jones
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    • brown pelican galveston galveston island pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis texas usa
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  13. Brown Pelican.jpg

    Brown Pelican.jpg

    Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis) Though it is the smallest of the nine (9) species of Pelicans it still has an impressive wingspan of 2.0-2.3 m (6.7-7.5 ft).
    • Stanley Jones
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    • brown pelican flight galveston galveston island pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis texas usa
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: North America
  14. BROWN PELICAN Pelecanus occidentalis

    BROWN PELICAN Pelecanus occidentalis

    My wife and I decided to take a day off from unpacking and dealing with things around the house so we drove over to Jensen Beach Park and had a great few hours. I shot this bird while it was in flight and did not realize the sailboat was in the picture.
    • dave598
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    • brown pelican flight florida pelecanus occidentalis usa
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  15. Brown Pelican 'occidentalis'

    Brown Pelican 'occidentalis'

    Taken in Puerto Rico, making this the 'occidentalis' race I believe
    • Wiganlad
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    • brown pelican brown pelican 'occidentalis' pelecanus occidentalis puerto rico
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: The Caribbean
  16. female Brown Pelican.jpg

    female Brown Pelican.jpg

    Female Brown Pelican
    • Danielbirdwatcher
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    • brown pelican pelecanus occidentalis pelican shem creek south carolina usa
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: North America
  17. Male Brown Pelican.jpg

    Male Brown Pelican.jpg

    • Danielbirdwatcher
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    • 1bb brown pelican pelecanus occidentalis south carolina usa
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: North America
  18. When a pelican acts like a vulture

    When a pelican acts like a vulture

    Yesterday at the light was fading at the edge of the mangroves. Three dolphin hunted while a pelican waited for a share of the spoils.
    • IDidiot
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    • brown pelican dolphin florida multi-species pelecanus occidentalis pelican usa
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  19. Sunset with Tern, Pelican, and Dolphin

    Sunset with Tern, Pelican, and Dolphin

    One of those days where you stay out on the water until the last minute.
    • IDidiot
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    • brown pelican florida kayaking multi-species pelecanus occidentalis pelican royal tern tern thalasseus maximus
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  20. brown pelican

    brown pelican

    • bievreJJ
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    • brown pelican california monterey bay pelecanus occidentalis usa
    • Comments: 20
    • Category: North America
  21. Brown Pelican

    Brown Pelican

    Now here's one smart Brown Pelican. This guy is camped out on a shrimp boat and refuses to be cheated out of a great shrimp meal however that seat he is perched on can't be comfortable for laughing out loud.
    • Danielbirdwatcher
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    • brown pelican pelecanus occidentalis
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: North America
  22. brown pelicans

    brown pelicans

    • bievreJJ
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    • brown pelican
    • Comments: 19
    • Category: North America
  23. One more...

    One more...

    From the other day and actually I think this one came out a bit better.
    • KC Foggin
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    • brown pelican
    • Comments: 20
    • Category: North America
  24. Fly over

    Fly over

    • KC Foggin
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    • brown pelican
    • Comments: 21
    • Category: North America
  25. Brown Pelican

    Brown Pelican

    They always make me smile.
    • tetoneon
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    • Comments: 8
    • Category: North America
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