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 ...

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 & ...

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 ...

I laughed when a birder with a sense of humor referred to the brown pelican as “a dove designed by a committee.” That seemed like an appropriate description for this large, uniquely designed, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...