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The California Brown Pelican is the only pelican native to North America. Also, the only one with long-term breeding colonies in the US are on the Santa Barbara Islands (and the Anacapa). They were in danger of becoming extinct due to ingestion of the wide use of DDT, as it was discovered back in the day (1960's) it affection other animals as well.

Here's some Fun Facts:

One of the unique aspects of Brown Pelicans compared to other pelican species is that they can dive from as high as 60 feet in the air to catch fish

Brown pelicans normally lay three eggs and adult pelicans share incubation duties

They can live up to 40 years

Their throat poach can hold over 2 gallons of water

Find and even more fascinating information written by Steve Tabor from his article on the webpage link here:
https://www.palosverdespulse.com/blog...

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