[SBB] American White Pelicans communal fishing

[Tom Merigan <[[email protected]]>]

This weekend Joan and I were  up at Klamath NWR in Oregon and saw some 
interesting behavior by American White Pelicans who were settled in at 
Pelican Marina.  I was able to get a sequence of pictures which I put on my 
Pbase website. They show the cooperative way these pelicans fish as a group 
which is mentioned in Sibley.This avoids the kind of food fight with the 
gulls  that can occur when when one pelican alone is fishing in this area 
(which we also observed).http://www.pbase.com/merigan/image/66726314 This 
hyperlink should get you to the first photo in the series and then by 
clicking your mouse on the next command you should be able to serially 
sequence yourself through the series of 8 pictures to follow the remarkable 
action. I hope that it is of enough interest in be submitted to SBB because 
we have this species in our area.   Tom Merigan


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