Brown California Pelican

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Brown California Pelican

• Amanda little
• Mrs.Boccaleri

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Characteristics

• He is not endangered.
• They have strict diets.
• They often get fish hooks stuck in their feet.
• Pelicans can live up to 43 human years.
• Less than 30 of the hatchlings survive.

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Habitat

• It live on coasts, beaches, and bays that are on
  Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. They are
  rarely seen inland.

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Predator/Prey

• It hunts fish, Menhaden account for 90-95 of
  their food. They also prey on pigfish, pinfish,
  herring, sheephead, silversides, mullet, grass
  and top minnows, and they sometimes eat
  crustaceans, usually prawns. Though an adult
  pelican requires as much as 4 lbs of fish a day,
  they have been shown to not compete with
  commercial or sport fisherman, as they don't eat
  the same "quality" of fish as humans do. a shark
  may attack and raccoons may steal the eggs. Man
  is the only real danger. Of all the Brown
  Pelicans brought into the Pelican Mans Bird
  Sanctuary, 90 are injured by fishing line -and
  fishing hooks.

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Predator/Prey

• . Too often, when a fisherman snags a Pelican,
  they cut the line. This then gets tangled around
  the birds legs and wings and the bird can get
  caught up in the branches of trees. If this
  happens, the bird will starve to death. Other
  problems they faces are oil spills, cars, boats,
  power lines and pesticides. In the 1970s, the
  Brown Pelican was declared an endangered species
  by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service because their
  numbers were decimated by the use of the
  insecticide DDT. DDT leached into the water
  supply, and therefore the fish, resulting in the
  birds laying eggs with so thin that they broke
  before being incubated.

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Poem

• These birds might get stuck in a fish line or
  have a hook in their foot but sometimes they can
  be saved but sometimes they can not. It might
  have been endanger in the 1970s but now it is
  not. This magnificent bird might look weird but
  thats the way they are. A ponderous dark water
  bird this bird isnt afraid like we are he may
  take a risk and swim all the way with the mean,
  lean, and crool alligators, crocodiles, or the
  sharks.

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Credits

• This slide show has been presented to you by
  Amanda Little from Mrs. Boccaleris
• sixth grade class. Thank you and have a
  wonderful day.