EMPIRE, MI -- Wildlife photographer Thomas Gerndt was watching the sunset dip into Lake Michigan when a friend pointed out ...

While visiting a bird sanctuary, a TikTok […] The post If You’ve Never Seen Baby Pelicans, We Bet You’d Never Guess Just How ...

Weighing up to 30 pounds and supported by short, stubby orange legs with webbed feet, the American white pelican waddles like penguins when moving on land. All the while, a supersized orange bill juts ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Meet the white pelicans at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens & Zoo! General Curator Lisa Taylor says their ...

While mostly white with black wingtips, the American White Pelican grows a flat horn-like structure that appears on the top of the bright orange beak during the breeding season.This is called a ...

American white pelicans, with 9-foot, black-tipped wings and long orange beaks, are typically migratory birds. The birds’ numbers in the region dropped in the 19th and 20th centuries.

It’s strange that although the Brown Pelican is our state bird, the American White Pelican is the bird that graces our state flag. And the story behind it is as interesting as the bird itself.

Pelicans, neither brown nor white, never carry food in those bill pouches. They serve only to scoop before the gulp. Or put another way, American white pelicans live north while brown pelicans ...

Migrating white pelicans arrive in the fishing village of Cortez in Bradenton, ... One pelican lifts his beak to the sky as pelicans gathered at the docks of Cortez on the mornings of Dec. 31st.

A gull, with a fish in its beak, flies over a group of pelicans looking for fish to feast on at Wananish Dam on the Yakima River outside of Richland. Tri-City Herald file Yakama Nation officials ...

A gull, with a fish in its beak, flies over a group of pelicans looking for fish to feast on at Wananish Dam on the Yakima River outside of Richland. Tri-City Herald file Yakama Nation officials ...