From their prehistoric past to clever fishing skills, dive into the fascinating world of brown and white pelicans with these pelican facts.

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, an ...

The patients in this emergency room have a rowdy streak, tend to pick fights with one another and quickly develop a powerful appetite for fish. It is, in fact, the busy season at the Wetlands & ...

An American White Pelican indulged a bit too much at the seafood buffet and seemed to know it needed help getting its meal down — or out. According to rescuers with the Conservancy of Southwest ...

Several familiar old faces have returned to nest in the Charleston Harbor for the first time in eight years.Brown pelicans ...

A large pelican circles Pelican Lakes in the Water Valley subdivision south of Windsor. Nearly 100 birds hunted and slept on the lakes Tuesday. The birds are using the lakes instead of Windsor Lake, ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A pelican that caused a traffic stop in Spring Valley was later euthanized due to severe neurological symptoms indicating it may have had bird flu, according to the San Diego Humane ...

The eastern end of an island at the mouth of Shem Creek will remain closed through mid-November in an effort to protect ...

California Highway Patrol officers rescued a pelican in distress, found with a fishing hook in its beak and wing, and handed it to the Peninsula Humane Society for care.

An unfortunate pelican caught up in a recent bitumen spill despite the well-meaning efforts of wildlife rescuers has so far ...

A hungry pelican homed in on his next meal at a marina in the Florida Keys: a shiny object held by a woman. Easy prey, yummy meal. So the big bird snatched it and swallowed. But it was no fish. The ...