Can someone tell me why you never see baby pelicans?
Im guessing they nest on isolated spots, but do the babies not leave the nest until they are fully grown?
thanks a lot
I saw some baby pelicans on Crab Bank during the summer.
most of their rookeries are Crab Bank, Birk Key and possibly even Deveaux…these areas are off limits…
look closely though and you will see a lot of juvenile pelicans…juveniles have brown heads and white bellies and adults have white heads and brown bellies…
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Originally posted by Bonzo72 juveniles have brown heads and white bellies and adults have white heads and brown bellies...
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Originally posted by drterryCan someone tell me why you never see baby pelicans?…
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>They get eaten if they get seen. They hide.
You don’t see most bids until they can move around pretty well and by that time they are as big or bigger than their parents.
Go to Deveaux Bank in the spring and summer and take binoculars as you can’t go past the high water line now, not as many as it used to be but you’ll still see plenty in the nest.
You can’t catch fish on a dry line
Have you ever seen a raccoon eat a meal this size?
Nature tries to hide her babies from predators (um… like foxes, eagles, “man”) .
Baby birds almost always are as big as adults when they leave their parents care. Here is a pic taken today in Clark Sound of a juvenile bald eagle waiting on mom to give him another fish.
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and sometimes the young pelicand heads look real fuzzy yellow like a baby chic…first time I ever saw a young bald eagle I asked my daddy why there were buzzards with the eagle on the bank as their heads looked black :)…yeah…i still hear about that…"hey look at the buzzards over there penny…"lol
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those birds are ospreys…not eagles
beg to differ… Off topic, but, osprey have light colored undersides and a dark band across their eyes. The bird flying in the pic above has a solid brown body, white (but, dirty) head, and white tail (dirty, again). Definitely, a bald. See http://images.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1611&bih=893&q=osprey&gbv=2&oq=osprey&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2646l4539l0l4844l12l11l2l1l1l2l242l1479l0.5.3l8l0
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defiantly and eagle.
-and immature pelicans are just hard to notice because they get big quick.
Here is the male of the pair checking to see if I left any scraps at my fish cleaning station. The reason the female was dirty was that she had been getting fish carcases for her young that I had thrown on the mudflat for the crabs
What a weird bird the pelican
His beak holds more than his bellycan
ARGO
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Originally posted by ARGOWhat a weird bird the pelican
His beak holds more than his bellycan
ARGO
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On the poetic side…“A wonderful bird is the pelican.
Its beak can hold more than its belly can.
It can hold in its beak
Enough food for a week.
I’m darned</font id=“blue”> if I know how the heck</font id=“blue”> he can.
Contributed by Almut Hahn”