U.S. Fish and Wildlife veterinarian Sharon Taylor and Charlie Pelizza, refuge manager at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, release a recovered pelican at the refuge on Monday May 10.
A brown pelican that had been oiled and then cleaned soars after being released at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge near Vero Beach, Florida on Monday May 10.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife veterinarian Sharon Taylor and Charlie Pelizza, refuge manager at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, release a Northern Gannet that had been oiled and cleaned at Pelican Island on Monday May 10.
The American white pelican is one of the largest birds in North America, measuring 6 feet from bill to tail. White pelicans weigh up to 20 pounds and have a wingspan of 8 to 9 and a half feet long.
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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.
An American White Pelican tending to its young while another pelican flies by in the background. A hand painted glass slide by Finley and Bohlman at Klamath Marsh, 1905. Klamath would later in 1908, under the influence of Finley and Bohlman's work,...
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.