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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Louisiana Wildlife experts just finished the ...

Wes Bradshaw remembered a time when there were no pelicans on the Chesapeake Bay, a period that covered about three-quarters of the waterman's life on Smith Island, Maryland. "I had seen pictures of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) On a sunny mid-June afternoon with a tickling breeze, dozens of brown pelicans soared overhead like an avian ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Brown Pelican is not only the Louisiana ...

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 ...

Over the last several months, a young brown pelican’s obsessive preening regimen has dominated the view from my office window at the Northern California wildlife hospital where I work. We don’t name ...

A brown pelican flies over Queen Bess Island in Louisiana in 2018. The island is being restored to nearly its former size after decades of coastal erosion and damage caused by an offshore oil spill.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly $10 million in 2010 oil spill money is rebuilding a barrier island bird rookery off Louisiana. Work on Queen Bess Island had to wait for this year’s nesting season to end in ...

On a sunny mid-June afternoon with a tickling breeze, dozens of brown pelicans soared overhead like an avian Cirque du Soleil. Some birds carried nesting material in their comically long bills; others ...

Over the last several months, a young brown pelican’s obsessive preening regimen has dominated the view from my office window at the Northern California wildlife hospital where I work. We don’t name ...