CHART ILLUSTRATING EXHIBIT OF WHITE PELICAN 



1 . White pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) 



2. Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 



Franklin's gull (Larus pipixcan) 

 Common tern (Slerna hirundo) 



in such a large bird, and yet at times these birds perform amazing evolutions over 

 their marshes, soaring up, diving, and zigzagging over the tules with amazing agility. 



Their food is fish, which they catch by swimming along the surface, or wading in 

 shallow water, and scooping the little fish up in their pouches. 



White pelicans are gregarious, usually gathering in flocks, and commtmal efforts 

 have been recorded in their fishing. A whole flock of the birds forms into a line facing 

 the beach, and with splashing of wings and ducking of heads they advance toward the 

 land, driving the fish before them and filling their pouches as they go. 



In winter the white pelican moves to the warmer sea coast, where in the Gulf of 

 Mexico and on southern California coasts and southward, it consorts with its smaller 

 relative, the brown pelican. 



Often on the prairie lakes double-crested cormorants nest along with the pelicans. 

 They're actually closely related to the pelicans, despite the difference in appearance. 



While the white pelican is restricted in the kind of place it nests, the cormorant is 

 adaptalale. In the Museum group we see it nesting on the ground by a prairie lake; 

 in Florida it nests in the tops of trees; and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence it nests on the sea 

 cliffs and gathers fish in salt water. 



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