From their prehistoric past to clever fishing skills, dive into the fascinating world of brown and white pelicans with these ...

Whether gliding over the water with its tremendous wings outspread, diving at a 90-degree angle to snatch up fish, or ...

In this video a pelican flies up behind an osprey who has just caught a fish and, in a stunning move, manages to wrest the tasty morsel from the raptor’s taloned grip.

Pelicans are large water birds known for their “scooping” mouth pouch used to catch fish in the water. There are currently eight living pelican species present in many regions around the world.

The pelican, officials at the center said on Thursday, March 21, “is on the mend.” The bird was brought in by a crew member on the Truline, one of the sport fishing boats at 22nd Street Landing.

“We surf-launched Boat 4491 with a crew of two and gently brought the pelican into the boat where the crew cut away some of the fishing line,” Oak Island Water Rescue wrote in a Facebook post.

A pelican is recovering after volunteers with the Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, Inc. say they found him tangled in a fishing line and shot dozens of times with a pellet gun at a lake in Valley.