"The RRC should have done more in these draft rule amendments to incorporate best practices." Mysterious appearance of ...

Joan Wylie had never carried a pelican under her arm, but on Tuesday, she carried at least 8 or 10 of them from the Seacoast Seabird Sanctuary around 75 yards to the beach at Indian Shores.

When photos of the gorgeous birds started popping up on the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge's Facebook birding page this month, I had to go.

while white pelicans prefer to scoop their meals from the water’s surface, according to FWC. They’re also known to steal fish from other water birds, the University of Florida says.

FILE - American white pelicans at Oregon's Lake Klamath. Populations of the birds have declined due to drought in some areas of the state, and have climbed at colonies on the Lower Columbia River.

The birds also have notable long orange beaks ... And that was a result of habitat loss, persecution in some cases, water diversion. Pelicans are colonial waterbirds, so they nest on islands ...