I had forgotten about these pictures!
Last month when I was in Winnipeg, I spent a couple of hours wandering around the parks along the Assiniboine River near the Manitoba Legislative Building. In addition to all of the geese that were there, I spotted a pair of large birds on the wing.
They were up high, and there were some tall buildings around so I kept losing sight of them.
It was a grey and gloomy day, just after some rain, but I managed to grab a couple of recognizable pictures.
The ever so wonderful Merlin Bird ID app IDs them as American White Pelicans.
Along the shore down here in Southern California it’s not uncommon to see pelicans, but they’re usually Brown Pelicans. These must be their cousins.
The main thing that made me doubt at first that they were pelicans is that the Brown Pelicans are almost never seen away from the ocean shore. They don’t do rivers and lakes. Not so the American White Pelican. They’ll go anywhere there’s water and fish.
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