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American White Pelican |
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The American White Pelican is a very large white bird with black wing tips and a long, wide orange bill. It has a wing span of up to 110 inches and typically weighs around 7 kg (15.5 lb).
White Pelicans nest in colonies of several hundred pairs on islands in remote brackish and freshwater lakes of inland North American. The most northerly nesting colony can be found on islands in the rapids of the Slave Lake between Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta, and Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. Habitat loss is the largest known cause of nesting failure, with flooding and drought being recurrent problems. - Taken from Wikipedia. |
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Unlike the Brown Pelican, the American White Pelican does not dive for its food, instead it feeds while swimming. At the Zoo -
We have three American White Pelicans. |
