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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 ...
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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 ...
Wetlands at the Llano Seco Unit of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in October 2022. The water flows in the refuge have to be controlled artificially, and the vegetation has to be managed actively through irrigation and burning, to ensure that the wetlands remain productive, and provide adequate food and resting places for the birds.
Gunnison Island is located in the northwest quadrant of the Great Salt Lake in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, approximately 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Salt Lake City and about 6 miles (9.7 km) east from the lake's western shore, and is best known as an important rookery for the American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos).
The great white pelican is a huge bird—only the Dalmatian pelican is, on average, larger among pelicans. It measures 140 to 180 cm (55 to 71 in) in length [ 6 ] with a 28.9 to 47.1 cm (11.4 to 18.5 in) enormous pink and yellow bill , [ 6 ] and a dull pale-yellow gular pouch.
These efforts have common objectives, including controlling salinity, maintaining some of the sea's habitat, and stabilizing sea water levels. The current and most prominent restoration initiative, the Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP), was released by the State of California in 2017. The SSMP's first phase is being implemented from 2018 to ...