Orders:
PELECANIFORMES
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brown pelican
2. double-crested cormorant
3. anhinga
4. Brandt's cormorant
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brown pelican, Bahia Honda, Florida Keys, USA, 2009.
This is a sequence of a juvenile brown pelican fishing. It first flew
overhead until it began to glide when it found fish. After 1-2 seconds
of gliding, it awkwardly dropped into the water. Its dive
lacked the aerobatics of a falcon, the gracefulness of a hovering
tern, and the
elegance of a swift on the wing. However, clumsy-looking the
strategy was it
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Brandt's cormorants, San Diego,
CA, USA, 2009.
Frustratingly I was not able to get good photos of any Brandts
cormorants, though I made attempts on 3 different occasions and saw
100's of cormorants.
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| brown pelicans, La Jolla, CA,
USA, 2009. |
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ahinga, (top) Fairchild
Botanical Garden, Miami, FL,
2008 and (bottom) Everglades, FL, USA, 2008. After swimming in the
water in pursuit of fish, anhingas like these two male anhingas sit in
the sun to dry off their feathers (bottom) and preening by taking oil
from the gland on the top of the tail then applying to their feathers
(top).
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Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), Key West, FL, USA.
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| brown
pelican (Pelecanus
occidentalis), San Quintin, Baja California, MEX |
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brown pelican, Bahia Honda, Florida Keys, 2009.
More clumsy dives. |
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Brandt's cormorants, San Diego
(La Jolla), CA, USA, 2009.
This is a night perch for double-crested and Brandt's cormorants and
some gulls. During the day only a few cormorants were still on the
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| brown pelican yawning |
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brown pelicans, Santa
Barbara, CA, USA, 2008. (Top 3 photos)
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double-crested
cormorant (Phalacrocorax
auritus),
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
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Anhinga female top and male bottom (Anhinga
anhinga),
Everglades, FL, USA
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Anhinga
male
(Anhinga anhinga)
at Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge in southern Florida,
USA.
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