Title: Pelican
Content:  Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterized by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, except for the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all pelicans become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Long thought to be related to 
Title: Pelican
Content:  bank Montepio Geral, and a pelican is depicted on the reverse of the Albanian 1 lek coin, issued in 1996. The name and image were used for Pelican Books, an imprint of nonfiction books published by Penguin Books. The seal of the Packer Collegiate Institute, a pelican feeding her young, has been in use since 1885. The Christian Democratic political party known as the American Solidarity Party uses the pelican as its animal symbol, alluding to its Catholic social teaching platform. The pelican is the subject of a popular limerick originally composed by Dixon Lanier Merritt in 1910 with several variations by other authors. The original version ran:
Title: American white pelican
Content:  Unlike the brown pelican (P. occidentalis), the American white pelican does not dive for its food. Instead it catches its prey while swimming. Each bird eats more than 4 pounds of food a day, mostly fish such as Cypriniformes like Common carp (Cyprinus carpio), Lahontan Tui chub (Gila bicolor obesa) and shiners, Perciformes like Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus) or Yellow perch (Perca flavescens), Salmoniformes like Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Siluriformes (catfish), and jackfish. Other animals eaten by these birds are crayfish and amphibians, and sometimes larval salamanders. Birds nesting on saline lakes, where food is scarce, will travel great distances to better feeding grounds. American 
Title: Pelican
Content:  water. The tail is short and square. The wings are long and broad, suitably shaped for soaring and gliding flight, and have the unusually large number of 30 to 35 secondary flight feathers. Males are generally larger than females and have longer bills. The smallest species is the brown pelican, small individuals of which can be no more than 2.75 kg and 1.06 m long, with a wingspan of as little as 1.83 m. The largest is believed to be the Dalmatian, at up to 15 kg and 1.83 m in length, with a maximum wingspan of 3 m. The Australian pelican's bill may grow up to 0.5 m long in large males, the longest of any bird. 
Title: List of birds of Prince Edward Island
Content: American white pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (A) ; Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis (A) Order: PelecaniformesFamily: Pelecanidae Pelicans are very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under their beak. Like other birds in the order Pelecaniformes, they have four webbed toes. 
Title: List of birds of Idaho
Content: American white pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ; Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis (R) Order: PelecaniformesFamily: Pelecanidae Pelicans are very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under their beak. Like other birds in the order Pelecaniformes, they have four webbed toes. Two species have been recorded in Idaho. 
Title: Dixon Lanier Merritt
Content: ''A wonderful bird is the pelican, ; His bill will hold more than his belican, ; He can take in his beak ; Enough food for a week ; But I'm damned if I see how the helican! ''A funny old bird is a pelican. ; His beak can hold more than his belican. ;     Food for a week ;     He can hold in his beak, ; But I don't know how the helican. Born Dixon Lanier Abernathy, his parents divorced while he was a child and one of his five uncles subsequently adopted him. At age 21, he legally changed his surname to Merritt, which he regretted later in life. Dixon Merritt was married twice. 
Title: Pelican
Content:  Dassen Island and elsewhere. The Australian pelican, which is particularly willing to take a wide range of prey items, has been recorded feeding on young Australian white ibis, and young and adult grey teals and silver gulls. Brown pelicans have been reported preying on young common murres in California and the eggs and nestlings of cattle egrets and nestling great egrets in Baja California, Mexico. Peruvian pelicans in Chile have been recorded feeding on nestlings of imperial shags, juvenile Peruvian diving petrels, and grey gulls. Cannibalism of chicks of their own species is known from the Australian, brown, and Peruvian pelicans.
Title: Pelican
Content:  drive them into the shallows, beating their wings on the water surface and then scooping up the prey. Although all pelican species may feed in groups or alone, the Dalmatian, pink-backed, and spot-billed pelicans are the only ones to prefer solitary feeding. When fishing in groups, all pelican species have been known to work together to catch their prey, and Dalmatian pelicans may even cooperate with great cormorants. They catch multiple small fish by expanding the throat pouch, which must be drained above the water surface before swallowing. This operation takes up to a minute, during which time other seabirds may steal 
Title: K. K. Neelakantan
Content:  Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 10(8), 1–3. ; Neelakantan, K. K. (1993): The pathetic plight of the Grey (Spotbilled) Pelican. Blackbuck. 9(3&4), 72–80. ; Neelakantan, K. K. (1980): A project for the eighties: Saving the Spottedbilled Pelican. Hornbill 1980(1), 21–24. ; Neelakantan, K. K. (1969): Motiveless malignity or purposeless pestering. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 9(6), 4. ; Neelakantan, K. K. (1969): The mating of the Goldenback Woodpecker Dinopium benghalense. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 9(6), 6. ; Neelakantan, K. K. (1962): Woodpeckers nesting in old nest-tunnels. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 2(6), 8–9. ; Neelakantan, K. K. (1962): Birds of Cochin and Ernakulam. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 

Question: Who is the author of The Day of the Pelican?
Answer: Katherine Paterson.
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson.