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 San Pedro nonprofit group charged with treating sick pelicans is suffering an affliction of its own: strapped finances. That’s because a cold and starving pelican eats a whopping 6 pounds of fish ...

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 ...

PHOENIX - The Phoenix Zoo lost more than a dozen pelicans from the bird flu as it's spreading through the country and other parts of the world. Sixteen pelicans once called a lake at the zoo home. Now ...

SAN PEDRO, Calif. (KABC) -- After a long journey of rehabilitation, two brown pelicans are soaring high and spreading their wings. Both birds recovered from severe injuries and were released by the ...

British photographer Caron Steele has won the Bird Photographer of the Year award and £5,000 for her image of a Dalmatian pelican on a frozen Lake Kerkini in Greece. The shot was taken during the lake ...

Several exhibits at a Nebraska zoo were closed indefinitely after a pelican died from avian influenza and a second was euthanized, officials said Friday. According to a news release from Omahas Henry ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s official—the brown pelican has been designated the official bird of St. Petersburg. The bird has already been an unofficial symbol of the city for decades, but Mayor Rick ...

I laughed when a birder with a sense of humor referred to the brown pelican as “a dove designed by a committee.” That seemed like an appropriate description for this large, uniquely designed, ...

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 ...

Veterinarian Rebecca Duerr saw the wound on a brown pelican found near Ventura Harbor and knew something was off. She had sewn up a lot of cuts and tears in seabirds' pouches and necks from fishing ...