<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Brown Pelicans are known to swallow young Common Murres on Oregon coastal islands. And Great White Pelicans in Africa take young birds from nests. Unfledged young in one Namibian colony ate eggs and young of Cape Cormorants, their neighbors in the colony! Pelican throats are very expansible.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 24, 2024, at 12:43 PM, Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">WOW! It makes you wonder what other non-fishy items are on a pelicans menu! I remember watching them fishing as a team, dipping their bills in unison at Bear River NWR in Utah.<br clear="all" class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51)" class="">Hans Feddern</span></b><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="">Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:thefedderns@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">thefedderns@gmail.com</a></span><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 12:35 PM Vincent Lucas via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen an American White Pelican swallow a coot whole like I witnessed when I lived in Florida.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Vincent Lucas</div><div dir="auto" class="">Port Angeles, WA<br clear="all" class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from Gmail Mobile ʚϊɞ ʚϊɞ ʚϊɞ<br class=""></div></div></div>
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