The white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is no stranger to me—they migrate through Nebraska, and I see them often when they stop over at some of the lakes where I hawk and fish—but for some reason I was surprised when we saw several on the Mississippi River in New Orleans.
Surprised, perhaps, only because we expect to see brown pelicans (P. occidentalus)—the brown is, after all, Louisiana's state bird—and we did see quite a few of them on the Mississippi as well.
(I like, by the way, that the NBA franchise in New Orleans is the Pelicans, and that the lettering on their jerseys is modeled on French Quarter street signs...)
But by far our best brown pelican sightings were out in the countryside, at and near Grand Isle....
...and on our "home waters" of Bayou Lacombe.
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