[texbirds] Re: Brown vs. American White Pelican - food capture behaviors
- From: MBB22222@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:59:03 -0500 (EST)
Many thanks for sharing your observations. Although I think plunge-diving
by American White Pelicans can be observe extremely rarely it is great to
have confirmation of those sightings.
Mark B Bartosik
Houston, Texas
_http://www.pbase.com/mbb/from_the_field_
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In a message dated 2/10/2013 4:06:07 P.M. Central Standard Time,
doefamily@xxxxxxx writes:
American White Pelicans can and do use plunge diving as a foraging
technique, when the opportunity or necessity arises. I have seen them on the
Pacific (So Cal) flying with Brown Pelicans and plunging from 75-100 feet,
just
like the Brown Pelicans. Once, at Big Bear Lake in So Cal, I saw a flock of
about 15 do a simultaneous plunge from about 50 feet in mid-lake,
presumably after a concentration of trout.
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