NATURE CREW: PELICANS
Nov 14, 2020
3 minutes
By Selena Birgit Kiser and Mark Kiser
Illustrations by Lisa Bardot
These beaks, which have unusually large throat pouches, make pelicans expert fishermen. While they might look fragile, these stretchy pouches can expand to hold gallons of water and a whole lot of wriggling fish.
There are eight species of pelicans worldwide, and two of them are found in North America: the brown pelican and the American white pelican. Telling them apart is easy — just go by their
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