Florida White Pelican

Posted by Imagery Photography on January 18, 2014

I was telling my wife that over the years of visiting Florida, I had never seen a White Pelican. My mother who had lived in West Palm Beach had thought they were going extinct. Turns out they are migratory and real snowbirds!

We visited the Ding Darling nature preserve on Captiva Island and saw hundreds of these large birds. They are much larger than brown pelicans or even bald eagles for that matter with a nine foot wing span. I was fortunate to capture one in flight.

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White Pelican

5 responses to “Florida White Pelican”

manonlesko says:

January 18, 2014 at 10:41 am

Great shot!

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- Imagery Photography says:
  
  January 19, 2014 at 10:38 am
  
  Thank you!
  
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pedmar10 says:

January 19, 2014 at 8:08 am

indeed captiva island is nice and plenty of them , family lives just down the coast. Iused to lived there too, but on the east coast and on Bill Boggs park in key biscayne you have them too. Great shot !!!

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- Imagery Photography says:
  
  January 19, 2014 at 10:42 am
  
  Thanks. It was strange, they were just sitting there and my friends wanted to move on and I pretended I didn’t hear them wanting to get one in flight. This bird must of felt me because only one took off, flew in a big circle and then returned to the flock, timing is everything.
  
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  - pedmar10 says:
    
    January 20, 2014 at 2:29 pm
    
    indeed nice picture, on the flight.