A brown pelican is in recovery after undergoing surgery to repair her pouch, “which was severed from the base to the tip on both sides,” a California nonprofit said. A woman first spotted the bird, ...

Perhaps you've read the Ogden Nash limerick about "that wonderful bird the pelican" whose "bill can hold more than his belican." The American white pelican, a species that nests in Minnesota, has a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A California brown pelican with a severed pouch — thought to be caused by an act of human cruelty — is expected to recover after being handed off to the ...

Pelicans are large water birds known for their “scooping” mouth pouch used to catch fish in the water. There are currently eight living pelican species present in many regions around the world.

Pelicans live in warm and tropical areas close to water; you can often see them hanging out together on docks and beaches. They are very social and usually stick together in flocks or colonies. One of ...

On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore ...