Eight brown pelicans in flight. The Brown Pelican is the only exclusively marine member of the pelican family, and the only one that regularly dives for its food.
Bird banding; Birds; Connecting people with nature; Employees (USFWS); Marine birds; Shorebirds; Surveying;
NCTC Deputy Director Jim Willis, handles a young brown pelican while participating in a bird banding/survey event conducted on New Dump Island - a manmade island located in Core Sound just off the town of Atlantic N.C.
Hand painted glass slide of a White Pelican at take-off in Malheur Lake. Taken by Finley and Bohlman during a 1908 photography trip to Malheur that would later help Malheur become a bird refuge in 1908.