Friday, October 23, 2020

AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS - PHOTOS TAKEN WHILE IN FLORIDA A FEW YEARS AGO


We were at the Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, link here.
A lot of the birds are wild and tend to fly into the park in droves when it is feeding time for the resident birds.
One of the ladies who worked there told me this, as I watched her throw fish from a big bucket to the resident birds.  She was mostly accurate but if a bird was too slow and her aim was an inch off and  splashed into the water, one of the happy visitors was able to grab a morsel or two.
The American White Pelican is indigenous to North America, but the earliest pelican fossil on record is 30 million years' old when a skull was found in France. 
The bump on its beak appears on both male and female pelicans during breeding season, but once breeding season is over it disappears.  Their breeding season lasts from late March to early May.  

You can learn more about them at this link.

Thanks for dropping by 
and have a great weekend.




32 comments:

  1. I was surprised to read that these are Pelicans! The beak bump is so interesting, that is the second thing I wanted to know about. Great pictures, and I liked learning about this place.

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    1. Hi Ginny and thank you, so glad :) I have never seen them except in Florida but I know you can get them in other places. I don't know anything about their migration.

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  2. I adore pelicans. Thank you for showing me these which are quite different to our pelicans.

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    1. Me too EC :) You are very welcome. Your pelicans are very striking with those white and black feathers.

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  3. Hello, Denise

    Awesome shots of the White Pelicans. They are beautiful, one of my many favorite birds. Enjoy your day, have a great weekend!

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    1. Hello Eileen, thank you. I agree, they are beautiful and a favorite bird of mine also :) You have a great day and great weekend also.

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  4. We do get white pelicans here but they're pretty rare I've only seen maybe five or six. We have tons of brown pelicans and then one year we had like flocks of white pelicans but then they left did not know about the bump

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    1. I remember the brown pelicans. Love those birds! :) Thanks Sandra!

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  5. these pelicans migrate to our area about December to January... wonderful.
    Thank you for sharing beautiful photos of pelicans.

    Have a great day

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    1. Interesting Tanza, thank you for that information :) You are very welcome, so glad you enjoyed. Have a great day also!

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  6. Pelicans are a very elegant bird. I like to watch them fly.

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    1. Thanks Red, I love to watch them fly also :) I have seen them at the beach 200 miles south of here. They always seem to fly in a line low across the water.

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  7. What wonderful captures Denise, they are beautiful!

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  8. Beautiful white pelicans. I was in Orlando and Miami years ago but did not see any.

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    1. Thank you Gigi, hopefully you will get to see them one day :)

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  9. Hi Denise,
    What a beautiful Pelican, the white version is really stunning, super series of images, the lump on the beak is another fascinating feature.
    You and yours stay safe and well.
    John

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    1. Thank you John, it is a very interesting and a beautiful bird. You all stay safe and well also :)

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  10. So a beak erection? LOL. These are really wonderful photos, D!

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    1. Thank you Cloudia and even at my age I am blushing :)

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  11. I love these shots...love pelicans.

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    1. They are a fun bird aren't they Rose? I love them too :)

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  12. They seem so ungainly, but they're quite photogenic.

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