American white pelican, photo by Alan D. Wilson / Wikimedia Commons.

American White Pelican

This huge white bird (with a nine-foot wingspan!) has black flight feathers, and a large yellow-orange bill making it hard to mistake for any other bird. Often found in flocks both while foraging on the surface of shallow lakes, and when soaring high overhead. Listen For Not very vocal, except in breeding colonies where white […]

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