I saw a big pelican there.

the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

Papasula abbotti (I)

They can finish the process in a day.

A pelican can fit a lot of fish in its beak.

Abbé F. Gellé, L'avocat des enfants, Guy de Fontgalland , Paris Le Pélican, 1931.

, no pelicans have been recorded, and it may well be that the species is now extinct in Burma.

Vézina, Raymond, Cornelius Krieghoff, peintre de mœurs, 1815 1872 , Québec, Éditions du Pélican, 1972.

Down by the dinghy our cat is being hazarded by an angry pelican.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness I am like an owl of the desert.

Other species that have recently disappeared from the lower Danube due to the building of dams on the river are spoonbill (Platalea leucordia), the great white egret (Egretta alba) and little egret (Egretta gar zella), white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) and Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus), avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) and oystercatcher (Himanto pus himantopus).

This was used through the end of the American Civil War, though the Pelican flag and Flag of January 1861 remained in use unofficially.

The carvings on the Cross represent the faces of Christ, the Virgin, Saint John, a pelican, and two women's heads.

Abbé F. Gellé, La Maman du ciel 31 lectures pour le mois de Marie, d'après Guy de Fontgalland , Paris Le Pélican, 1932.

The great white pelican has short legs which do not extend beyond its tail, and it flies with its neck retracted, keeping its head near to its stocky body, giving it a different flight profile.

But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

This name is based on the shape of the three pointed (or four pointed) expanded outer lip of the adult shell, which resembles the webbed foot of a sea bird such as a pelican.

Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it their voice shall sing in the windows desolation shall be in the thresholds for he shall uncover the cedar work.

As a 14 year old, I saw the great Denzel Washington play Gray Grantham in The Pelican Brief , a fearless reporter, who, with the help of Julia Roberts' law student, exposes a murderous conspiracy by an oil magnate to stack the US Supreme Court with justices friendly to his interests.

Then night fell in the midst of a heavy silence occasionally broken by the calls of pelicans and nocturnal birds, by the sound of surf chafing against rocks, or by the distant moan of a steamer churning the waves of the gulf with noisy blades.