Pelican

By Ksena | September 16, 2007 5:29 am |
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Birds


Good afternoon, my dear readers. I am back again to make your mood better with the next great bird of our Planet, which is worth to be shown as a curious one. The Pelican!
Pelicans are large birds with enormous, pouched bills from which hangs a distensible pouch of skin for catching and holding fish, and long wings. Of course there are a various species of pelicanes from very small till giant ones.

Lonely pelican

A magic pelican

Pelican is a fishing community but in one documented case, a pelican swallowed a live pigeon, and reports of similar incidents have surfaced. In fact, Pelicans are fairly opportunistic predators, and while fish forms the bulk of their diet due to being the most common food source where Pelicans nest, they will quite readily eat any other food that is available to them.

A great shape of pelican

The famous limerick about pelicans: “A wonderful bird is the pelican. His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak, Food enough for a week, But I’m damned if I can see how the helican.” was written by Dixon Lanier Merritt in 1910.

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