A Pelican colony

Title: A Pelican colony
LC Subject: Birds
Description: This picture gives some idea of the thousands and thousands of birds that nest in this part of the country. These are Pelicans. They are large birds, with large bodies and long crooked necks. Their peculiarity is a funny bill with its great punch on the under jaw. These are fish eaters. They next on the ground and when the sound are hatched they wander about back and forth among these nests. The old birds go off every day to fish, and when they return they hunt around until they find their own youngsters. They seem to be able to tell their own as easily as a mother can identify her own child. How they do this, no one seems to know. When they feed the nestlings, they open this great mouth and allow the young bird to thrust his beak down the throat and help himself to whatever he finds. It is a rather curious sight—the young bird’s head and beak is thrust so far down the mother’s throat that it looks as though the mother was trying to swallow the young one.
Work Type: lantern slides
Location: Oregon >> United States
Date: 1900/1910
Identifier: P217:02:41
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Local Collection Name: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Is Part Of: Set 3 - Oregon Birds
Institution: Oregon State University
Note: Hand-tinted