Then it makes a fast nosedive, plunging head-first into the surf and scooping up the stunned prey with its beak. ... By 1970, the brown pelican had become an endangered species.

A 3-year-old brown pelican, found on the San Pedro Pier with cuts to the jaw and pouch, is improving and “eating with bravado,” according to International Bird Rescue.

A brown pelican making the rounds is causing quite a stir with pelican lovers in Windsor. The bird that’s been sighted at Fossil Creek Reservoir west of Windsor has also been spotted on Rockbridge ...

Long before the brown pelican came to symbolize the tragedy of the Gulf oil spill, ... Biologists said the pelican -- known for its long beak with a hooked tip and its 6-foot wingspan ...

dark brown underneath, slate-gray on top, variably grayish beak and legs. Some people mistake them for cranes because they see flocks of the full-bodied, snow-white birds flying toward seemingly ...

Like a flying dinosaur straight out of Jurassic Park, the Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) has prehistoric antecedents going back 30 million years. One of the largest of our water birds, ...

PANAMA CITY — A fishing guide accused of animal cruelty toward a brown pelican has been acquitted of the charges after a one-day trial, according to court records. Larry Francis Lemieux Jr., 37 ...