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Gold Coast Pelican

Location: Earth » Oceania » Australia » Queensland

Date: March 24, 2008

Scrapping over “Catch of the day”

Posted by Kell on March 24, 2008 10:02. Last updated: March 27, 2008 17:31.

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Feeding?
Looks to me like it may be feeding its young.

Posted by Ted Kropiewnicki on March 26, 2008 20:28.

Scrapping.
There were about 50 Pelicans on the beach at the time.
When a Fisherman started throwing his scraps/fish frames to the ever hungry all adult Pelicans.
He does this quite often.
These two ran along the beach in a tug of war for about 80 feet before they went into the water.
I took about 12 Pics of the tug of war.
I will include one more Pic of the Fisher Man throwing the Frames to the waiting Pelicans.

Posted by Kell on March 27, 2008 00:43.

Changed Taxon
Media was moved from ID Request.

Posted by Mike Boone on March 27, 2008 17:31.

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