Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road

Tag: american white pelican

  • Dinosaurs and Birds

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    Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. ~Neil Gaiman Picking up again on our May road trip…after Denver, we headed to Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah, a huge national monument at over 210,000 acres (and a Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn

  • More than his Belican

    A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican, He can take in his beak Enough food for a week But I’m damned if I see how the helican! ~Dixon Lanier Merritt American White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) are always a treat to see. When I first moved to North Carolina Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn