Saturday, August 30, 2014

Pterodactyl

Oh! I'm sorry did I get the name wrong. I really meant Pelican and not Pterodactyl, though you could easily mistake the 2 as I'm sure Pelicans are direct descendants of the prehistoric Pterosaur. Either that or Hollywood used the Pelican flight as a model for the various movies that featured Pterodactyls. When a flight of them pass by you can easily imagine them as being a prehistoric flying dinosaur. Lovely birds. The first two are from the California coast near Malibu and I think are of non breeding birds. The portrait is from Florida of a bird in breeding plumage.

Brown Pelican

Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican

No comments:

Post a Comment