Brown Pelicans 1
True or False, Brown Pelicans store fish in their beaks.
False
Brown Pelicans can hold this much water in its pouch.
2 to 3 gallons.
Do Pelicans have teeth?
No
What is DDT?
A pesticide
A Brown Pelican has this many chambers in its stomach.
2
Fossil records date the specie's evolution back at least this many years.
30 million years
The angle of the pelican's dive.
Nearly 90 degrees.
This is the Brown Pelican's favorite food.
Northern anchovies
What is the EPA?
The Environmental Protection Agency
This is a muscular pouch that grinds the Brown Pelican's meal into smaller pieces.
A gizzard.
What is another name for the Brown Pelican's beak.
Gular pauch
Air sacs beneath the skin of a pelican's breast help to do what?
They help to cushion its dive.
A Brown Pelican plummets headfirst into the water to catch fish from as high as this many feet.
60 feet
What year did the EPA ban DDT?
1972
Brown Pelicans prefer to nest in colonies called what?
Rookeries
How do Brown Pelicans protect their esophagus and trachea when they dive?
They rotate their bodies slightly to the left.
The Brown Pelican's signature hunting strategy.
The high dive.
Brown Pelicans use these to incubate their eggs.
They use their feet.
Why was DDT so devistating for pelicans and other birds?
DDT caused birds to produce eggshells so thin they broke under the weight of their parents.
How many gallons of oil were unleashed during the 2010 BP oil spill?
134 million gallons
Where are a Brown Pelican's esophagus and trachea located?
On the right side of their necks.
Name two things that pose threats to the Brown Pelican's favorite food.
Overfishing and climate change.
What happened in April of 2010, just a few months after the Brown Pelican was removed from the endangered species list?
The BP oil spill
True or False, Brown Pelicans have dense heavy bones that help them dive deep under the surface of the water.
False
What are anchovies full of that make them critical to Brown Pelican's, especially during breeding season?
Important nutrients and lots of fat.