Bird watching enthusiasts from around Central New York and beyond have been flocking to Syracuse's Inner Harbor the past few days to watch and photograph a rare (for these parts) American white ...

A hungry pelican homed in on his next meal at a marina in the Florida Keys: a shiny object held by a woman. Easy prey, yummy meal. So the big bird snatched it and swallowed. But it was no fish. The ...

An American White Pelican indulged a bit too much at the seafood buffet and seemed to know it needed help getting its meal down — or out. According to rescuers with the Conservancy of Southwest ...

A young pelican from Kalbarri, WA, has made a name for himself with his strange behaviour. "Naughty Boy" is known for bossing other birds around, "playing dead" and snapping up seagulls. A pelican ...

I laughed when a birder with a sense of humor referred to the brown pelican as “a dove designed by a committee.” That seemed like an appropriate description for this large, uniquely designed, ...

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, an ...

A man who posted on Facebook footage of him attacking a pelican could face animal cruelty charges after the video went viral. Hunter Hardesty posted the video on March 8. It shows him luring the ...

Wildlife rehabilitators in Wisconsin say they are taking in an increasing number of large, protected birds that are illegally ...