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  2. Spot-billed pelican - Wikipedia

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    The same colony was revisited in 1944, and was found to have about 10 nests of pelicans and nearly 200 nests of painted stork. [ 10 ] The Sittang River in Burma was said by E W Oates to have "millions" of pelicans in 1877 and in 1929 E C Stuart Baker reported that they were still nesting in thousands along with greater adjutant storks:

  3. American white pelican - Wikipedia

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    American white pelicans nest in colonies of several hundred pairs on islands in remote brackish and freshwater lakes of inland North America. The most northerly nesting colony can be found on islands in the rapids of the Slave River between Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta, and Fort Smith, Northwest Territories.

  4. Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    American White Pelican surveys have been conducted every year since 1972. These surveys estimate the number of breeding adults in the colony at Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Starting in 1928, pelicans have been banded, and these same birds have been found as far as Florida, California, and many Gulf Coast States. [2]

  5. Pelicans return to breed on island in Utah for the first time ...

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    The large birds ditched their nesting colony on another island last year, wildlife officials said. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...

  6. Bird colony - Wikipedia

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    Colony nesting may be an evolutionary response to a shortage of safe nesting sites and abundance or unpredictable food sources which are far away from the nest sites. [4] Colony-nesting birds often show synchrony in their breeding, meaning that chicks all hatch at once, with the implication that any predator coming along at that time would find ...

  7. Brown pelican - Wikipedia

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    Between 2014 and 2016, brown pelicans experienced a continuous breeding failure. [88] These breeding failures have been characterized by decreased numbers of pelicans arriving at nesting colonies, large scale abandonment and early migration due to an inability to feed hatchlings, and sub-optimal breeding by those who do attempt to breed. [88]

  8. Gaillard Island - Wikipedia

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    At that time, they were placed on both the Alabama and federal endangered species list. Partly due to increased nesting and propagation of the brown pelicans on Gaillard Island, the brown pelican was removed from the state's endangered species list in 1995, [3] and in 2009, the brown pelican was removed from the federal endangered species list. [4]

  9. Pelican - Wikipedia

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    A brown pelican opening mouth and inflating air sac to display tongue and some inner bill anatomy American white pelican with knob which develops on bill before the breeding season An adult brown pelican with a chick in a nest in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, US: This species will nest on the ground when no suitable trees are available. [49]