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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)
Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States in northeastern California.It includes about 20,000 acres (81 km 2) of open water surrounded by over 26,000 acres (110 km 2) of upland bunchgrass, low sagebrush, and juniper habitat. small, rocky islands in the wetlands provide breeding sites for American white pelicans, double-crested cormorants, and other ...
Eagle Lake is a lake at 5,098 ft (1,554 m) elevation [1] in Lassen County approximately 15 mi (24 km) north of Susanville, California. An endorheic alkaline lake, it is the second largest natural lake entirely in the state of California, United States.
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.
Researchers examined where California has gauges measuring the flow of rivers and streams. They found many streams are unmonitored. Only 8% of California rivers and streams have gauges measuring ...
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.