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American white pelican profile (Archived 2014-09-20 at the Wayback Machine) at The Nature Conservancy; American white pelican pictures from 'Field Guide' page on Flickr; Stamps (for British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cuba, Turks and Caicos) – with Range Map at bird-stamps.org; American white pelican photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
Historically American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) nested on Eagle Lake. They suffered from hunting by locals who mistakenly thought the pelicans ate the native trout and stopped nesting completely after 1932, when water was exported for agricultural irrigation and lowered the lake level by 10 feet (3 m), changing their nesting ...
The Tule River is a 5.7-mile-long (9.2 km) river [2] [3] tributary to the Fall River. The river is a complex of spring-fed lakes and waterways originating in Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park in north-eastern Shasta County in northern California. From the Fall River, its waters continue to the Pit River and then the Sacramento River to the ...
Birdwatchers in 2017 reported that most of the American white pelicans, double-crested cormorants, and eared grebes have disappeared. [98] The Salton Sea is notable as the only part of the United States to host a significant population of Yellow-footed gulls, a species otherwise endemic to the Gulf of California. Most of these gulls are only ...
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Map of some major California rivers and lakes This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of California , grouped by region. Major lakes and reservoirs, if applicable, are indicated in italics.
Scores of sick and starving pelicans have been found in coastal California communities in recent weeks and many others have died. Lifeguards spotted a cluster of two dozen sick pelicans earlier ...
An estimated 8-10,000 pelicans used to return to Anaho Island each spring from their winter homes in Southern California and Baja California, Mexico. In 1967, cui-ui, a staple food of the pelican, was declared to be endangered after water diversions affected the fish runs. In 2005, it was reported that the number of pelican nests had dropped ...