When the big white bird didn’t head south with its fellow pelicans, the town of Ashland wondered why. Now the bird is getting ...

I’ve just returned from a Florida vacation, where I spent most of my time being entertained by the pelicans. Is the pelican Florida’s state bird? If it isn’t, it should be. –Joan, New Bedford, MA No ...

A starving California brown pelican is recovering after rescuers performed emergency surgery on its deliberately slashed neck ...

Like a flying dinosaur straight out of Jurassic Park, the Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) has prehistoric antecedents going back 30 million years. One of the largest of our water birds, an ...

Wildlife rehabilitators in Wisconsin say they are taking in an increasing number of large, protected birds that are illegally ...

The patients in this emergency room have a rowdy streak, tend to pick fights with one another and quickly develop a powerful appetite for fish. It is, in fact, the busy season at the Wetlands & ...

An insensitively abandoned fishing net in Jakkur Lake almost killed a spot-billed pelican with the entire length of its gular pouch – the extensible throat sac used for short-term storage of food – ...

A hungry pelican homed in on his next meal at a marina in the Florida Keys: a shiny object held by a woman. Easy prey, yummy meal. So the big bird snatched it and swallowed. But it was no fish. The ...