### animal | vertebrate | bird | seabird:

Pelican
* All pelicans have bills that are as long or longer than their heads.
* Many pelicans fish by swimming in cooperative groups.
* Most pelicans adapt to niches
  - particular niches
* Most pelicans are banded before they fledge when they're easier to catch and band
  - located at coasts
  - catch fish
  - cross rivers
* Most pelicans dive for food
  - into water
* Most pelicans eat catfishes
  - emerge from nests
  - establish sites
  - feed in water
  - fly over bays
  - fold necks
  - go to bays
* Most pelicans has-part glands
  - legs
  - toes
  - wings
* Most pelicans have beaks
  - huge beaks
  - hunger
  - pouches
  - ranges
  - senses
  - short legs
  - inhabit environments
  - lift wings
* Most pelicans live in coasts
  - estuaries
  - habitats
  - on lakes
  - make nests
  - migrate to regions
* Most pelicans nest in colonies
  - mangroves
  - possess pouches
  - require water
* Most pelicans return to nests
  - seek water
  - shake wings
  - sit in trees
* Most pelicans stand on feet
  - stones
  - take flight
* Most pelicans use bills
  - wait for fish
* Some pelicans are classified as concern
  - member of families
  - cross islands
  - depend on wetland
  - descend from skies
  - feed in bays
  - gain strength
  - give birth to birds
  - has-part vertebrae
* Some pelicans have characteristics
  - predators
  - puffins
  - unique characteristics
  - inhabit beaches
* Some pelicans live in Louisiana
  - landscapes
  - nest in trees
* Some pelicans rest on banks
  - return to trees
* Some pelicans sit on crests
* Some pelicans wait for food
  - prey
* also dive impressively into deep waters to capture fish
  - have very unique feet
* are a very egalitatian bird
  - among the larger and heavier birds in the world, so they are very impressive in flight
  - back and can be found foraging for fish around any watercourses
  - big birds
  - common in the Danube Delta
  - famous for their large bill
  - found on many of the world's coastlines and also along lakes and rivers
  - great examples of birds that fly in slow V-shaped flocks
  - gregarious and live in large flocks throughout the year
  - highly mobile, searching out suitable areas of water and an adequate supply of food
  - huge birds
  - known for their large, pouched bills, which they use as fishing nets
* are large birds with large pouched bills
  - waterbirds and are commonly seen throughout Florida
  - migratory birds
  - service leaders, organizers who give to the society through their sheer effort
  - shore birds
  - shy, non-synchronised breeders who favour remote, undisturbed sites
  - social and gregarious
  - social, and often forage in groups
  - spectacular birds and fun to observe particularly when they're feeding
  - strong fliers and often soar on thermals above the rift wall escarpment
  - usually visible from the dikes during spring and summer
  - waterfowls
* breed at their place of birth
  - throughout the year, but individual colonies tend to breed synchronously
* build nests of twigs and branches near the water's edge.
* can fly in whenever they want to
  - live to a great age
* consume about a kilogram of fish each day.
  - only big fish
  - small surface-schooling fish, primarily anchovy, in the adjacent Bay
* fly and feed in formation.
* fly in a V formation
  - V-shape formation
  - groups called flocks, with their long necks bent back over their bodies
  - ocean sky
* glide over the water looking for schools of small fish using their keen eyesight.
* has-part backs
* have a gland to remove excess salt from their bodies
  - huge soft pouch beneath their beaks, which they use to scoop fish
  - long, straight bill with a flexible pouch made of skin on the underside
  - number of fishing methods
  - very extended membranous floor of the mouth which they use to capture fish
  - an extensive interramal region that has developed into a pouch-like dip net
  - beaks that are long, flat, and straight with a small hook at the end
  - enormous, pouched bills
* hunt dinner
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - quill feathers
* incubate eggs with their webbed feet.
* live and nest in what are called colonies or rookeries.
* live on lakes
  - or near the sea and eat lots of fish
* maintain their population when the colonies are protected.
* make extraordinary plummeting dives to catch fish
* nest during reproduction time at the right side of the beach.
  - on islands in shallow lakes
* require large quantities of food daily
* sea bird
* shake heads
  - two different ways to feed
  - meals