Pelican

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Pelican

***** Location: Australia, Kenya, North America
***** Season: Summer in Australia
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

As the weather begins to heat up, we are preparing for another influx of sick pelicans.
Every summer, the Endangered Brown pelicans & White pelicans arrive at the center dying from botulism. Botulism is a form of food poisoning caused by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.
The bacterium produces a nerve toxin that is ingested by the birds when they are feeding.
This toxin paralyzes the muscles of the birds and without treatment, the birds would certainly die.



© coachella valley wild bird center.org
southern california, USA

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Click HERE to look at some pelican photos !


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Worldwide use

Ireland

The Pelican is the bird which symbolises blood donations in Ireland, where the Blood Transfusion Service Board is symbolised by a pelican and used to be located in Pelican House :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Blood_Transfusion_Service


Isabelle Prondzynski

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Kenya

We have Great White Pelicans on Lake Nakuru in Kenya, where they are greatly outnumbered by flamingoes -- see here :

http://www.webkenya.com/eng/safari/nakuru.php
http://www.jameswarwick.co.uk/warwick-im/action/viewImage?id=215
http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_pages/0375-0606-0313-1557.html


Isabelle Prondzynski


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North America

first pelican
kigo for spring




piercing
this grey, the pelican's
beak

Shared by Louis Osofsky
Joys of Japan, February 2012



hazed sunrise
the pelican's double reflection
along a forked canal

- Shared by John Wisdom, Florida -
Joys of Japan, 2012





one moment
a pelican hovers...
blowing sand

- Shared by Jimmy ThePeach -
Joys of Japan, October 2012


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Romania

The Danube Delta is famous for its "millions of Egyptian white pelicans" and other varieties.




bărci prin trestiiş –
pelicanii îşi schimbă
locul de pescuit


boats through the reed fields –
the pelicans are changing
their fishing place

Vasile Moldovan

source :　lishanu.com/02 2011


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

with a grin
the pelican drops its load . . .
"Bombs Away!"

Richard Kay, Australia



More about Bird Droppings and Haiku

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a brown pelican
glides overhead...
summer morning

Bird Haiku
by Edward Weiss : from Seashore Haiku, Wisteria Press
http://www.wisteriapress.com/bird_haiku.html

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dusty grassland--
pelicans rendezvous
on a rotting carcass


Partrick Wafula,Kenya
Happy Haiku Forum, September 2009


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white pelicans--
green grass covering
the field

Eric Mwange
Kenya Saijiki Forum, March 2010


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Related words

***** AUSTRALIAN Saijiki

***** KENYA Saijiki

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