Pelicans The Pouch with a Punch: Unveiling the Secrets of Pelicans

The Amazing Lives of Pelicans

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Published in 07-11-2022 Update 01-06-2023

Pelicans characteristics

Long-live bird, 25 years rate, vertebrate, 11 pounds rate, 1.5 mts spreaded wings, let's care of animals and birds, let's care of our planet

Pelicans are see birds with great size that regularly can be spotted at tropical coast or beaches of any littoral. Even they can live and rivers or lakes as well. They have got a long peak with a membrane below its peak, this membrane forms a bag to catch fish. Feathers color can be grown, gray o even withe, they can fly and its paws are flat with membrane between claws to swim faster, in fact they are not quite good to walk by foot. Its feeding is based on fish and they possess a technique where from the air they can locate fish and after that they fall down over the water to catch them opening its long peak.

This is the sea bird with the biggest connivance with humans

They are intelligent birds, due they get closer to humans only if they know they will have a prize, ( a piece of fish or any food) also they are quite long-live birds, they can live until 25 years rate and the wings can reach 1.5 meters even more.

Talking about the reproduction process eggs can be incubated by male or female, pelican male are bigger than females, also pelicans are migratory birds. By the other hand, biologist know pelican can drink sea water and become and edible water.

Caught on video a pelican nest. They build its nest on solitary beaches to avoid predators. They can incubate two or three eggs .





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