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

A pelican that caused a traffic stop in Spring Valley was later euthanized due to severe neurological symptoms indicating it may have had bird flu, according to the San Diego Humane Society.

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.

White pelican populations in Oregon have been increasing in recent decades. ... And basically, pelicans, like all birds, need a few things to get along. One of those is breeding habitat and, ...

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