Birds with throat pouches

Usage examples of pelicans.

And by the time you finished paddlingat Cape Sable or Snake Bight or the Ten Thousand Islandsyou would have also been among roseate spoonbills and white pelicans, eels and mangrove snakes, sawfish and redfish and crusty loggerhead turtles.

At the farthest tip, near Cape Sable, the sky flashed with wild birds: herons, curlews, ibises, blue egrets, white pelicans, sandpipers and a few roseate spoonbills.

It was about then that a sizable group of pelicans came winging past, each one flapping its wings in long, easy strokes.

Even a half mile inland, pelicans padded up and down the avenues, and the foghorns in the bay could be heard off and on, warning trawlers and barges and sloops away from the rocky shores.

The headlights swung, the black stones turning to white and three pelicans pulled pouched beaks from under their wings in slow motion.

The pelicans had all gone, the storks too, but the herons were still there, motionless.

The lake turned red, then faded to the dull sheen of beaten metal, and with the dusk the birds came, pelicans, storks, geese, all manner of birds, singly and in flights.

Large flights of pelicans were seen standing upon the long masses of mud which rose above the surface of the waters, and a pilot came to guide us over the bar, long before any other indication of land was visible.