Eric White Studio

White Pelican Strut at Sunrise – Unlike the brown pelican, the American white pelican does not dive for its food. Instead, it catches its prey while swimming. Each bird eats more than four pounds of food a day. The fish taken by pelicans can range from the size of minnows to 3.5-pound pickerels.Other animals eaten by these birds are crayfish, amphibians, and sometimes larval salamanders

Birds nesting on saline lakes, where food is very scarce, will travel great distances to better feeding grounds. American white pelicans are likely to gather in groups of a dozen or more to feed, as they can thus cooperate and corral fish for one another because they are social birds, often found in very large colonies during breeding season.

When this is not easily possible – for example, in deep water, where fish can escape by diving out of reach – they prefer to forage alone. But the birds also steal food on occasion from other birds, a practice known as kleptoparasitism. White pelicans are known to steal fish from other pelicans, gulls, and cormorants from the surface of the water and, in one case, from a great blue heron while both large birds were in flight. Habitat loss is the largest known cause of nesting failure, with flooding and drought being recurrent problems. Human-related losses include entanglement in fishing gear, boating disturbance, poaching as well as additional habitat degradation. White pelicans can have a wingspan up to 9 feet and with their distinctive long, orange bill with a large throat pouch allows the "beauty in detail" to be seen in all its white plumage, with some black on the wings visible in flight.

11 x 14 giclée on Premium Glossy Photo Paper with Mat - $179.00 (plus S&H - $25.00)
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Original 24 x 28 Oil Paint on Oak Panel - 2017

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