Louisiana has lost more than half its brown pelican colonies in the past decade. Using fines from the spill, an important island habitat gets a makeover. Queen Bess Island, one of the most important ...

Some of Utah’s pelicans have found a new home at the Great Salt Lake, after many of the state’s pods completely abandoned a long-standing nesting site on another part of the lake last year. About ...

CHASE LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.D.-Nearly 40,000 birds are nesting this year on a 14-acre island that formed over the past two decades in Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, according to ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Several familiar old faces have returned to nest in the Charleston Harbor for the first time in eight years. Brown pelicans are nesting on Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary right ...

The Brown Pelican is not only the Louisiana state bird. It’s also a survivor. At times we take these pelicans for granted. They fly along with us as we drive the Causeway Bridge between Metairie and ...

Photo caption: Brown pelicans fly near Queen Bess Island in 2010. Photo courtesy Petty Officer 3rd Class Erik Swanson/U.S. Coast Guard. Officials said Wednesday that restoration projects on three ...

Reconstruction of Queen Bess Island, an eroded isle used as a rookery by brown pelicans, is set to start in late August or September, after this year’s nesting season ends, the state Coastal ...

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