Producer Pick: Pelicans
The American White Pelican is a very large white bird with black wing tips and a long, wide orange bill. They are graceful in flight, moving their wings in slow powerful strokes. Unlike the Brown Pelican, the American White Pelican does not dive for its food. Instead it practices cooperative fishing. Each bird eats more than 4 pounds of fish a day, mostly carp, chubs, shiners, yellow perch, catfish, and jackfish.White Pelicans nest in colonies of several hundred pairs on islands in remote brackish and freshwater lakes of inland North America. The female lays 2 or 3 eggs in a shallow depression on the ground. Both parents incubate. They winter in central California and along the Pacific coast of Guatemala; also along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Shooting by poachers is the largest known cause of mortality, although the species is protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.
First Broadcast: 2005
Production Credits: Producer - Jim Newman, Videographer & Editor - Nick Fisher
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