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Pelecanus occidentalis
My pelican friend had a white head and neck, washed with yellow; a grayish-brown body; and a dark brown to black belly. The back of his neck is a dark chestnut color with a yellow patch at the base of the foreneck. His eyes are marble yellow.
The once endangered bird now lives along the Texas coastline nesting near Corpus Christi.
This bird had been fishing along the Port A Jetty. When I took this picture, he was trying to push a fish down his throat into his belly.
3 Comments
Nice Charmaine. Great shot. Could you check your coordinates? The map coordinates shows it out in the Arctic Ocean. Thanks.
Nice, I do like pelicans!
A wonderful bird is the pelican.
His bill will hold more than his belly can.
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the hell he can!
by Dixon Lanier Merritt
Awesome!