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Sunsetologist
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Big white birds on water
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5/31/2016 1:46:45 PM
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I something very interesting this morning in our slough on Pace's Point... a flock very large white birds. After getting the binoculars out, there appeared to be 11 pelicans - white with a large bill - slowly swimming on top of the water. They looked just like the brown ones I see at the beach except all white. When they would flap their wings as though stretching, I noticed some black along the bottom of their wings. Several websites indicate they are American white pelicans and can be 4 feet tall with a wing span of 9 feet. I think I have seen these birds flying way up high overhead in the fall, but I have never seen them in the water so close to me. Has anyone else observed these birds on Lake Martin before?
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woodboat
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Big white birds on water
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5/31/2016 2:47:18 PM
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I saw one of them on my neighbor's pier a couple of weekends ago and saw one fly through my slough Sunday. I am also on Pace's Peninsula. I have named them Big Bird.
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John C
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Big white birds on water
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5/31/2016 4:28:21 PM
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They're migratory. Kenneth Boone did an article about them a couple of years ago in Lake Magazine or Lake Martin Living.
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Wakin
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Big white birds on water
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5/31/2016 8:54:53 PM
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Your coloring description sounds just like Whooping Crane, they are migrating back north (a little late though). They are a protected endangered species, every year or two some unaware hunters mistake them for Sandhill Cranes which are huntable. It's a huge bird.
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alahusker
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Big white birds on water
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6/1/2016 9:07:22 PM
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You had it right, White Pelican. A few weeks ago I was fishing with a friend in the Windcreek area and marveled at flock of about 16. They were fairly comfortable within 50 - 60 yards of the boat. Must be a fairly rare sighting, we have been on the lake for 20 years, it was a first for me. Beautiful birds.
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