Brown Pelican Portrait
by Judi Dressler
Title
Brown Pelican Portrait
Artist
Judi Dressler
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Brown Pelican Portrait posing very nicely for a photograph. It was a beautiful sunny day on South Padre Island. The pelicans were all over the dock; sunning themselves, sitting on the posts, preening, and generally hanging out.
An unmistakable bird of coastal waters. Groups of elegant Brown Pelicans fly low over the waves in single file, rising and falling in a graceful echo of the waves, and flapping and gliding in unison. Their feeding behavior is spectacular, as they plunge headlong into the water in pursuit of small fish, using the force of impact to stun the fish before scooping them up. The current abundance of this species in the United States represents a success story for conservationists, who succeeded in halting the use of DDT and other persistent pesticides here; as recently as the early 1970s, the Brown Pelican was seriously endangered.
Photo taken on March 3, 2021, on S Padre Island, Texas.
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Descriptive keywords and tags for this image include brown pelicans, pelicans, shorebirds, shore birds, portrait, ocean, sea, coast, coastal, texas, south padre island, birds, pelecanus occidentalis, pelecaniformes, pelecanidae, wildlife, wild, water birds, dressler, and judi dressler.
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March 25th, 2021
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