the birds were "accidental visitors," with most sightings along Lake Erie. Visits started to grow in the 1980s, and have been increasing ever since. American white pelicans are not easy to miss ...

Among birds with white heads, the American white pelican will probably be one of the easiest to recognize. The animal is quite large, with a long, protruding beak. Under its beak will be a flap of ...

Every long journey needs breaking up, even those of great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus), pictured here resting last month at Lake Çavuşçu in Konya, Turkey, while on their migration to ...

This squadron of pelicans arrived Thursday and crashed at Betty Huber's lake in Paris Township north of Minerva.

Now, my forays to view birds in early spring include looking for pelicans who share their fishing lakes with loons and ducks. Several decades ago, white pelicans were nowhere to be found in Illinois.

Here, American white pelicans breed in a vast island colony ... It was paramount that the birds not be disturbed so the crew filmed them from a small boat without ever setting foot on the birds ...

It forms a living but fragile sanctuary for some 1.5 million birds, such as the white pelican, the purple heron, the African spoonbill, the great egret and the cormorant. Description is available ...

By Leslie Brinkley Click here for updates on this story FAIRFIELD, California (KGO) — Brown Pelicans, which live along the Northern California coast, are being found in alarming numbers and rescued, ...

The SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is responding to a spike in reports of distressed pelicans across the region, with 16 birds ... the white peacock of Boulder ...