Like a flying dinosaur straight out of Jurassic Park, the Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) has prehistoric antecedents going back 30 million years. One of the largest of our water birds, an ...

Types of Pelicans in America Of the eight species of pelicans in the world, only two live in North America—the American white pelican and the brown pelican. Baby Pelicans Are Big Eaters During its ...

The patients in this emergency room have a rowdy streak, tend to pick fights with one another and quickly develop a powerful appetite for fish. It is, in fact, the busy season at the Wetlands & ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A pelican that caused a traffic stop in Spring Valley was later euthanized due to severe neurological symptoms indicating it may have had bird flu, according to the San Diego Humane ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A white pelican is released back to the wild along the shore of the Mississippi River on Thursday, March 3, 2016 in Portage Des ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s official—the brown pelican has been designated the official bird of St. Petersburg. The bird has already been an unofficial symbol of the city for decades, but Mayor Rick ...

A large pelican circles Pelican Lakes in the Water Valley subdivision south of Windsor. Nearly 100 birds hunted and slept on the lakes Tuesday. The birds are using the lakes instead of Windsor Lake, ...

Ocean City — They’ve only recently set up housekeeping in Maryland, but already they have a lot of important friends. Brown pelicans, once seriously endangered by pesticides, are nesting on South ...

An American White Pelican indulged a bit too much at the seafood buffet and seemed to know it needed help getting its meal down — or out. According to rescuers with the Conservancy of Southwest ...

A hungry pelican homed in on his next meal at a marina in the Florida Keys: a shiny object held by a woman. Easy prey, yummy meal. So the big bird snatched it and swallowed. But it was no fish. The ...

Whatever you think you know about pelicans, “Pelican Dreams” will surprise you. I like that filmmaker Judy Irving names one of the stars Gigi, short for Golden Gate Bridge, which the injured bird shut ...