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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: Medium flycatcher with pale gray upperparts and head, white underparts and throat, salmon-pink sides and flanks, and dark brown wings with white edges. Wades or makes shallow dives to catch food, steals, scavenges. Mississippi Kite: Small kite, dark gray upperparts, pale gray underparts and head. Roseate Spoonbill: Large ibis, pink body, white upper back, neck. Head is black and eyes are red. Wings are white with black primary and secondary feathers. Eats fish, crustaceans, jellyfish. It has a white rump with a dark central stripe and black legs and feet. The brown pelican is the national bird of Saint Martin, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the official state bird of Louisiana, appearing on the flag, seal, or coat of arms of each. Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats. Baird's Sandpiper: This medium-sized bird has scaled gray-brown upperparts, white underparts and a dark-spotted gray-brown breast. It mainly feeds on insects and other small invertebrates. It has a buoyant, zigzag flight, alternating several rapid wing beats. Short, weak flights on rapidly beating wings. Orange-brown crown is marked with fine dark lines. Pacific Loon: This medium-sized loon has a black-and-white checkered back and white underparts. It has a black head, white eye ring, orange bill with a black spot near the tip, and red-orange legs. Bill is bright yellow. [6], The brown pelican lives on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts in the Americas. Legs and feet are pink. Hovers more than other bluebirds and drops on prey from above, also catches insects in flight. Fork-tailed Flycatcher: Medium-sized flycatcher with pale gray upperparts, black head, inconspicuous yellow crown stripe, and white underparts. Head is flat with brown stripes. Fast direct flight with rapid wing beats. The head and neck are black. Best identified by its relatively slow, languid flight compared to other shearwaters. The sexes are similar. Feeds on crane flies and brine shrimp. Ross's Goose: Small, white goose with black primary feathers and stubby gray-based red-orange bill. Leach's Storm-Petrel: This medium-sized petrel has a dark brown body and a white rump and under tail feathers. Black legs and feet. Feeds on insects and spiders. Although the United States Gulf Coast populations in Louisiana and Texas are still listed as endangered, they were recently estimated in 2009 about 12,000 breeding pairs. Tail is short and pointed. In 1993, Paul Johnsgard hypothesized that the pelicans derived from a south Asian or African ancestor, and spread through northern Asia and Australia before finally coming to North America. About 63 days are needed for chicks to fledge. White wing patches are visible in flight. Head is large, glossy, and purple-black with golden yellow eyes and a crescent-shaped white patch behind a dark bill. Short, dark brown tail, legs are feathered to the toes. White chin and throat. Wings noticeably long on perched bird. Yellow-brown legs and feet. Wings are plain olive-brown. Masked Duck: Small stifftail duck with black-tipped blue bill and black mask with thin white eye-ring. Breast and sides are pale brown with pale streaks; throat, belly, and undertail coverts are white. Strong deep wing beats. Strong direct flight on steady wing beats. Forages in trees and bushes. Split in 2016 by the American Ornithologist Union. Swift direct flight. Black-headed Grosbeak: Large, stocky finch, black-streaked, orange-brown back, black head, wings, tail. During courtship, the bill becomes pinkish red to pale orange, redder at the tip, and the pouch is blackish. The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae, one of three species found in the Americas and one of two that feed by diving into water. Face, foreneck are gray, white eye ring. Probably owing to disturbance, tick infestation, or alteration in food supply, colonies frequently shift. The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae, one of three species found in the Americas and one of two that feed by diving into water. Black with bright yellow throat pouch bordered with white feathers. [73] These trends have important implications for the health and conservation of brown pelicans, as well as other seabirds.[74]. Eyes are yellow. Wings are brown with chestnut-brown patches. Some males show green on back and head. [5] The plumage of the male is similar to a fully adult female, although the male's head feathers are rather rigid. Bill is gray. [65][a], Since 1988, the brown pelican has been rated as least concern on the IUCN Red List of Endangered species based on its large range—greater than 20,000 km2 (7700 mi2)—and an increasing population trend. Bachman's Sparrow: Medium-sized sparrow with brown-streaked gray upperparts and buff underparts except for white belly. Rump is pale gray or white with few or no streaks. Weak fluttering flight on shallow wing beats. Mute Swan: Aggressive bird, entirely white, orange bill with large black basal knob and naked black lores. Its flight is bounding and erratic with frequent changes of direction and speed. Southwards, they are vagrants (found outside its usual range) in Tierra del Fuego. Dark morph is dark gray with pale streaks on throat and upper breast. [5], The brown pelican is readily distinguished from the American white pelican by its nonwhite plumage, smaller size, and habit of diving for fish from the air, as opposed to co-operative fishing from the surface. Cory's Shearwater: Large gray-brown shearwater, white underparts, pale yellow bill. Swainson's Warbler: Medium-sized warbler with olive-brown upperparts and pale gray underparts. White-faced Storm-Petrel: The only Atlantic storm-petrel with the combination of dark gray upperparts and white underparts with a dark cap and eyeline. Legs are yellow with very long toes. [72] Pacific sardines in the California current system rely on wind driven upwelling to push cooler, nitrogen rich waters towards the surface, maintaining a sustainable, nutrient abundant environment. It was named for the state where it was first discovered, where it is an uncommon migrant. Wings have white-spotted black tips; tail is white. It has a white rump with a dark central stripe and black legs and feet. [9][10][11] Like all pelicans, it has a very long bill, measuring 280 to 348 mm (11.0 to 13.7 in) in length. [73] This availability of sardines may decline even further during El Niño anomalies, when thermoclines prevent brown pelicans from reaching their prey. They also have a wide assortment of vocalizations — variations in the ‘teakettle’ song, along with buzzes and chattering. Bill is pink. Common Murre: Medium seabird with brown-black upperparts, throat, white underparts, and long dark bill. Hawks from perch, hovers. The bill and legs are yellow, and it has a red eyering. Sardine fishery in the Gulf of California has been showing signs of overfishing since the early 1990s. [17] It and the Peruvian pelican are the only true marine pelican species. It acquires adult plumage at over 3 years of age, when the feathers on the neck become paler, the upperparts become striped, the greater upperwing and median coverts become grayer, and the belly acquires dark spots. [12] The crest is short and pale reddish-brown in color. Strong direct flight with rapid wing beats. Feeds on large flying insects. Bouyant flight with steady wing beats, alternates several wing strokes with short to long glides. Often soars like a raptor. Wings are brown. Tail is dark gray with white corners. Fulvous Whistling-Duck: Large, long-legged, long-necked duck with dark brown back and white V-shaped rump patch. Its range may also overlap with the Peruvian pelican in some areas along the Pacific coast of South America. However, trees derived from genetic data disagree. Bill, legs, and feet are black. The nape and neck are dark maroon–brown. [43] After that, they develop a coat of white, black or grayish down. [47] A brown pelican has been recorded to have lived for over 31 years in captivity. Female has gray-brown upperparts, white underparts with brown streaks, and a light to dark salmon colored belly and vent. This separation was also supported by Jean Dorst and Raoul J. Mougin in 1979. Black bill, legs. Head and nape are blue. [5], An adult brown pelican with a chick on a nest on Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA, Juvenile brown pelican in flight, Bodega Head, California, Predation is occasional at colonies, and predators of eggs and young (usually small nestlings are threatened but also occasionally up to fledgling size depending on the size of the predator) can include gulls, raptors (especially bald eagles), alligators, vultures, fish crows, and corvids. Tail is long and white-edged with dark bars. Sips nectar. It has a direct steady flight on heavy and labored wing beats, with a slow down stroke and a rapid and jerky upstroke. Wings have two white bars. Baird's Sparrow: Small sparrow with pale-streaked, rich dark brown upperparts, white underparts, and dark streaks on upper breast and flanks. Sallies to take insects in air. There are four records far inland in Amazônia Legal along the Amazon River and its tributaries. CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, "Functional Aspects of the Pneumatic System of the California Brown Pelican", "Brown Pelicans as Anchovy Stock Indicators and their Relationships to Commercial Fishing", "A multi-model approach to understanding the role of Pacific sardine in the California Current food web", "Brown Pelicans: A new disturbance source to breeding Common Murres in Oregon? The spot-billed pelican and the pink-backed pelican were considered to be sister species by Andrew Elliott in 1992 and Joseph B. Nelson in 2005, and the divergence between the brown and the Peruvian pelicans was found to be the most in the pelican family. Direct flight with buoyant steady wing beats. It has a dark brown-and-white striped crown, sharply pointed bill and brown tail with white edges. Diet is heavy in seeds and cultivated grains. In 1990, Charles Sibley and John E. Ahlquist's Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean (UPGMA) tree based on DNA–DNA hybridization data found that the American white pelican, the pink-backed pelican, the great white pelican, and the Australian pelican were sister species, and the brown pelican was the most divergent of all. When it decides to pop up and sing from a willow twig, its sweet, jumbling song is more fitting of a House Wren than a sparrow. Legs and feet are black. [21] In the non-breeding season, it is found as far north as Canada. [19] It became extinct in 1963 in Louisiana. This page was last edited on 22 February 2021, at 22:45. Bohemian Waxwing: Large waxwing with gray upperparts, pink-gray crest, black mask and chin, and gray underparts. Underparts are white, and buff-brown wash on throat. The tail is long and squared with a black-bordered gray center and edged in white. Soars to great heights. Tail is forked; legs and feet are dark gray. Alternates several quick, shallow strokes with wings pulled to sides. Daniels, R. C., White, T. W., & Chapman, K. K. (1993). Tail is long and black with white corners. Sexes are similar. Legs and feet are gray. The tertials (feathers arising in the brachial region) are silver-gray with a brownish tinge. [32] Even with a more moderate decline in sardine abundance (50% relative abundance), brown pelicans have been predicted to decrease by up to 27%. To see this please jump to the Iceland Gull species account. It has a dark bill, yellow eyes and black legs and feet. Soars high on thermals. Tail is long, dark, and wedge-shaped; underwings show broad dark margins. [25] In level flight, brown pelicans fly in groups, with their heads held back on their shoulders and their bills resting on their folded necks. Feeds on mollusks, crustaceans, insects and small fish. The team was founded on January 16, 1966, and played its first game during the 1966–67 NBA season. Wings have large white stripes visible in flight; tail has dark central stripe above and is white below. [6] The young start flying about 71 to 88 days after hatching. Eyes are red and bill is orange-red with black tip. The wings are dark gray with broad white stripes. Direct flight with rapid wing beats. Feeds on insects, fruits and berries. Underparts are white; upper breast is rust-brown and spotted. Direct flight with strong steady wing beats. The female is dull brown with a white patch on the face at base of bill. Feeds while wading in shallow water, sweeping its bill back and forth. In the same year, Jurassic Park showed a pod of brown pelicans at the end of the film. In flight it shows long pointed wings with black flight feathers and white wing linings. North America's smallest goose. Wings have conspicuous white patches. [12] It has a grayish white bill tinged with brown and intermixed with pale carmine spots. Wings have two bars: upper bar is yellow, lower bar is white. White throat, buff breast, flanks, and belly are barred black-and-white. Eats seeds of aquatic plants, grasses and grains, insects and small marine crustaceans. Legs and feet are pink-brown. Crown is black and nape is pale green. Eastern populations are red-brown, Northwestern birds are more brown, and Western Interior birds are gray-brown. [72] Continued environmental disruptions, such as El Niño, rising ocean temperatures, and increased commercial fishing, have drastic effects on nutrient cycling within the California current system, leading to lasting impacts on Pacific sardine productivity and reproductive success. When wet holds wings in spread eagle position to dry. Eurasian Collared-Dove: Medium dove, pale gray overall with darker cinnamon-brown wash over back. It is found on the Atlantic Coast from New Jersey to the mouth of the Amazon River, and along the Pacific Coast from British Columbia to northern Chile, including the Galapagos Islands. Wings are mottled gray with dark primaries. Rapid direct flight with strong wing beats. Wilson's Phalarope: This medium-sized sandpiper has gray-brown upperparts, red-brown streaks on back and shoulders, red-brown markings on white underparts, gray crown, white face, black eye-line, a black needle-like bill, gray wings and a white tail and rump. Head has brown cap, white eyebrows, and dark eye-lines. Bobs tail and often makes short flights to hawk insects. Forages in low vegetation and on the ground. They have been recorded off the eastern coast of Brazil, in Alagoas. [63], In the 1993 film The Pelican Brief, based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham, a legal brief speculates that the assassins of two supreme court justices were motivated by a desire to drill for oil on a Louisiana marshland that was a habitat of the endangered brown pelican. [27] To exclude water from the nasal passage, they have narrower internal regions of the nostrils. Black cap that extends below eyes, down nape; pale gray upperparts that are darker at the wingtips; short, stout black bill and black legs, feet; long wings with very long outer primaries. Harris's Sparrow: Large sparrow with dark-streaked, brown upperparts and white underparts with dark-streaked sides. [22] Small numbers of brown pelicans have been recorded from Arica in far northern Chile. Common Ground-Dove: Small, rounded dove with plain gray-brown back and scaled pink-gray head and breast. Feeds on seeds, buds, fruits and insects. Upper neck and head are featherless and dark gray. Direct, swift flight on rapidly beating wings. The brown pelican was described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in the 1766 12th edition of his Systema Naturae, where it was given the binomial name of Pelecanus occidentalis. The tail is long, dark, and round-tipped. The bill is small and triangular. [31] Other fish preyed on with some regularity includes pigfish, pinfish, herring, sheepshead, silversides, mullets, sardines, and minnows. The front of the face has a white patch and the bill is usually pink-orange. Mitch Waite Group. Feeds on fish and invertebrates. White eyebrows are conspicuous. Crown has two dark stripes. Tail is short, and legs are long. Wings have white stripes visible in flight. Purple Sandpiper: Medium sandpiper, upperparts are scaled gray-brown, crown is dark, and white underparts are streaked. [20] It is fairly common along the coast of California, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, the West Indies, and many Caribbean islands as far south as Guyana. In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt set aside the first National Wildlife Refuge, Florida's Pelican Island, to protect the species from hunters. It mainly feeds on fish, squid and shrimp. The female (shown in foreground) has green upperparts, yellow-green underparts and dark wings. The white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) is common in the eastern United States during the winter and throughout Canada during the summer, with small areas of year-round populations where the ranges overlap.The bold white throat contrasts with the bird’s gray breast, but the stripes on the head can be either white or buff. Has a 15-16 inch-long black tail with deep fork. V-shaped bib is black. 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Tail is square. They communicate in different ways. Eats insects, caterpillars, seeds, fruits and berries. It has black-spotted and streaked upperparts, slightly scaled underparts, a white eye ring, black bill and yellow legs. [50] In 1972, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) banned DDT usage in the United States and limited the use of other pesticides. Barrow's Goldeneye: Medium diving duck with black upperparts, contrasting white shoulder bars, white underparts. [6], The brown pelican produces a wide variety of harsh, grunting sounds, such as a low-pitched hrrraa-hrra, during displays. It has a direct flight and hovers before diving for fish. Curved neck is often stained with pigments from iron or algae. Hovers in display flight and when foraging. It has pale blue to yellowish white irides which become brown during the breeding season. Black tips on the primary feathers are only seen in flight. [26] They may fly in a V formation, but usually in regular lines or single file, often low over the water's surface. Northern Gannet: Very large seabird. The sexes are similar in appearance. It is an occasional target of kleptoparasitism by other fish-eating birds such as gulls, skuas, and frigatebirds. Nathan Siemers / Flickr / CC by-SA 2.0. Calliope Hummingbird: Very small hummingbird, metallic green upperparts and flanks, white underparts. Brown-headed cowbird (female): larger, legs are gray-black (not pinkish like a House Sparrow), with fine streaks on breast.Photo on left by Dave Kinneer.Photo below by Zimmerman. Tail is long and black. Greater Scaup: This large diving duck has a glossy green-black head, white sides and belly, black tail, neck and breast, barred gray flanks and back. : Carolina Wren: smaller, long pointy beak, white stripe over eye, buffy orange belly, tail often held uprigh t. Will also use a nestbox. It has a rufous crown, white eye ring and dark brown wings. It hides in dense thickets, where it forages on the ground looking for insects, spiders, and caterpillars. Outer tail feathers are white. Strong flight with shallow wing beats. Bill is pink with dark tip. Legs and feet are pink. The tail is deeply forked and white with dark edged outer feathers. The back, rump, and tail are streaked with gray and dark brown, sometimes with a rusty hue. Eats mostly insects in the summer. They’re also a great entrée into the world of birdsong, with their pretty, wavering whistle of Oh-sweet-canada. The juvenile is brown and streaked. [6], In 1932, James L. Peters separated the American white pelican and the brown pelican (including the Peruvian pelican) into monospecific subgenera. Rufous Hummingbird: Medium hummingbird, bright rufous-brown overall with white breast and ear patch, red-orange throat, and green shoulders. Feeds on algae and aquatic plants, insects and insect larvae. Belly has dull white center; white undertail coverts. [24] It is also found in mangrove swamps, and prefers shallow waters, especially near salty bays and beaches. Wings and tail are gray-black; tail has thin white tip. Cinnamon-brown underwings visible in flight. It has a steady direct flight with rapid wing beats. Seabirds have become increasingly important as an indicator species. It has a direct flight with rapid wing beats. Tail is dark with white corners. [41][43] Within 4 to 14 days, they turn gray or black. Great Skua: Large, heavy-bodied seabird, prominent white patch in primary feathers. Throat is pale gray, belly is pale yellow. The wings are dark with two white bars. Feeds on seeds and insects. Whatbird parametric search. Feeds on aquatic plants. Sexes are similar. The head is gray, bill is short and slightly decurved. Bill is dull yellow to gray-green (eastern) or orange-yellow (western). Black upper and lowerparts may show blue gloss. Feeds on insects and spiders. Female lacks black head and throat, has brown streaked upperparts and buff streaked underparts. Burrowing Owl: Small ground-dwelling owl, mostly brown with numerous white spots and no ear tufts. Small gull, pale gray upperparts, gray-white nape, white neck with thin black collar, and white, wedge-shaped tail; underparts are variably pink. Forages on ground. Wings are dark with large white patches visible in flight. Last sighted in Canada in 1982. Feeds on insects. [72] The significant decrease in pacific sardine population can be linked to the levels of nitrogen within their habitat, a limiting factor in plankton production. Greater White-fronted Goose: This medium-sized goose has a dark-brown body and the underparts are barred and flecked with black. Since then, the brown pelican's population has increased. Head has red cap, black chin patch. Field guides, illustrations, and database Copyright © 2004 - 2013. Tail is short and brown with white corners. Feeds on freshwater snails, mussels, frogs, crustaceans and insects. Follows farm tractors and plows. It feeds on squid and fish. Undulating, with several rapid wingbeats and a pause. It lacks any red hue, and the pouch is strongly olivaceous ochre-tinged and the legs are olivaceous gray to blackish-gray. [64] In the 2003 Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo, a brown pelican (voiced by Geoffrey Rush in an Australian accent) was illustrated as a friendly, virtuous talking character named Nigel. The belly and under tail coverts are white. [73] Although brown pelicans serve as an important indicator species for fisheries, declining sardine abundance due to both climate changes and overfishing have huge implications on overall ecosystem health, within or outside the individual trophic cascade. It sneaks around the ground amid willow thickets in wet meadows, rarely straying from cover. Six to 9 weeks after hatching, the juveniles leave the nest, and gather into small groups known as pods. Light morph has white neck, pale yellow collar, white lower breast, mottled breast band, sides. AKA Common Guillemot. Brewer's Blackbird: Medium-sized blackbird with purple gloss on head and neck and green gloss on body and wings. Though its song might conceal its sparrowness, its plumage says otherwise. The tail is dark brown and pointed in flight. The wings show rufous primaries in flight. Head has a slate-gray hood and bold white eye-ring. Western Tanager: Medium-sized tanager with brilliant red head, bright yellow body, black back, wings, and tail. This hypothesis would imply that, unless the brown pelican and the American white pelican resulted from multiple invasions of North America, they would be sister taxa. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper: This medium-sized sandpiper has dark brown upperparts and white underparts with faint olive-brown streaks on breast and sides. The tail is dark gray with a variable silvery cast. [23] Along the Gulf Coast, it inhabits Alabama, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Mexico. Boreal Chickadee: Large chickadee, brown upperparts, dark brown cap, small black bib, gray face and neck, white cheek, rufous sides, white underparts. Legs and feet are brown. [5] The Peruvian pelican was previously treated as a subspecies of the brown pelican, but is now considered a separate species on the basis of its much greater size (around double the weight of the brown pelican), differences in bill color and plumage, and a lack of hybridization between the forms despite a large range overlap. Tail is black with white undertail coverts. [16] Incubation takes 28 to 30 days with both sexes sharing duties, keeping the eggs warm by holding them on or under their webbed feet. Tail is black with white edges. The newly hatched chicks are pink, turning gray or black within 4 to 14 days. Underparts are white except for black upper breast band. Feeds on aquatic plants collected from bottom. Rare inland vagrants, generally caused by hurricanes or El Niño phenomena, have been reported from the Colombian Andes.

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