On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans gather on rock promontories, packed in like edgy commuters as they take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore. The water ...

A surge of rare pelican sightings in New York City raises the possibility the southern birds may start calling the area home.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s official—the brown pelican has been designated the official bird of St. Petersburg. The bird has already been an unofficial symbol of the city for decades, but Mayor Rick ...

Not so long ago, the Pelican State lost its namesake bird. A chemical used to kill insects also induced the animals to lay eggs with too-thin shells. "Instead of eggs, heavily DDT-infested Brown ...

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Dozens of malnourished and injured brown pelicans are turning up along the Northern California coastline. Russ Curtis, a spokesperson for the nonprofit organization International Bird Rescue, said the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal officials announced Wednesday that they were removing the brown pelican from the endangered species list, capping a century-long recovery that started under President Theodore ...

The nonprofit International Bird Rescue is sounding the alarm about what it calls a "pelican crisis" in L.A. County. The number of sick Brown pelicans at the group's L.A. Wildlife Center has topped ...

A bird rescue organization is offering a $2,500 reward for information that could lead to the arrest of whoever was responsible for slashing a brown pelican’s throat pouch, leaving it weak and ...

Sometimes it's just a simple case of aesthetics: A white figure is easy to see on a blue background. The figure in this case, is a glowing white mother pelican tearing her breast to feed her young ...