Like a flying dinosaur straight out of Jurassic Park, the Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) has prehistoric antecedents going back 30 million years. One of the largest of our water birds, ...

It looked like a pterodactyl, diving into the water with steely determination. Roy Peter Clark had never seen anything like it before. When the Brown Pelican came up from the waters by Pass-a ...

Weighing up to seven kilograms with wingspans nearing three metres, the American white pelican is a striking and a rare sight ...

On 20 April 2010, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded. A photograph of an oil-soaked pelican came to epitomise the environmental disaster and helped galvanise the clean-up.