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Oregon Coast Birding - Brown Pelicans
Brown pelicans possess a huge naked skin pouch suspended from the lower half of their hooked bills enabling them to hold almost three gallons of fish and water inside their mouths after a feeding dive, almost three times the size of their stomachs. Brown pelicans are the only pelican species to plunge into the water from the air diving after their fish prey while utilizing their skin pouches as dip nets. After collecting their captured fishes and water together, brown pelicans drain the water out from the corners of their mouths and then lift their heads backs swallowing their catches. Several attributes aid brown pelicans when in the water including their short tails and legs, and also their web feet well-adapted for swimming. Brown pelicans often prefer to hunt in bays where their food resources flourish in these estuarine waters. On rare occasions, Wildlife Explorers and Birders can be privy to exceptional wildlife moments when brown pelicans uncover schools of fishes in the water, igniting feeding frenzies amongst the brown pelicans and other shore birds. The spectacle of observing several hundred pelicans plunging into the water is unforgettable.
Photo of the pristine waters contained within the Back Bay portions of the Yaquina Bay Estuary, a part of the Newport Area and a place where many shore birds gather together to hunt along the tidal flats including great egrets and great blue herons along with brown pelicans fishing in these same estuarine waters searching for small fish prey as well.
Photo of an incredible wildlife event captured on the Yaquina Bay Estuary involving a flock of brown pelicans swarming over schools of small fishes swimming in the bay igniting a feeding frenzy amongst these brown pelicans in addition to drawing the attention of gulls, great blue herons and great egrets later joining into this amazing feeding spectacle.
Photo of a brown pelican in flight arriving at the feeding frenzy underway ready to take a plunge into the water on a feeding dive going after a fish ball in the bay, a truly captivating moment when these brown pelicans uncovered schools of fishes in the estuarine waters of the Yaquina Bay setting off a flurry of feeding activities within this large gathering of birds.
Photo of brown pelicans plunging head first into the waters of the Yaquina Bay Estuary pursuing small fishes detected near the surface of the water, part of a thrilling episode when these fish hunters arrived in great numbers and feverishly attacked their prey with continued feeding dives over an action-filled afternoon on the bay.


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