But a sign of what I don't know.

Day before yesterday I was outside next to our blueberry fields and noticed a big flock of unrecognizable birds flying in circles up above. First glance looked like snow geese. But they were completely silent. After awhile some of them split off and flew over fairly low and I could plainly see that they were PELICANS! We're 60 miles inland from the coast and I have never in 67 years seen pelicans flying over our airspace.

I had just got done having an irrigation guy quote us on a project and was on the phone with my brother discussing it. Weird!

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Do you have pelicans on the coast in OR. ?

We get a few stragglers occasionally here after hurricanes, Brown ones, but they don't live here on purpose...

We get pelicans in Wisconsin not often but not super rare.

Even the pelicans had enough of the libs and are heading for better.

We have pelicans in Montana

LOTS of white pelicans migrate through Missouri.

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I have seen pelicans here in Nebraska. Never in massive numbers , but enough to make a small bunch or flock.

Seen them in Michigan ,but not very often. Must get blown off course or something.

Interesting!!!
Like Slick Pan yes, we have pelicans in Mt, and I would say common natural thing. I remember many years ago I went fishing a lot of the river. Every time I went fishing same spot here came three pelicans and they stayed their distance but were there for a handout. I would clean the fish as soon as I caught them and threw the discard in the river, and they came like mad dogs to get the remains.

I was told they came from some part of the country where they would get feed and most likely a tourist trap area. Made sense to me.

Huh, I figured they were a coastal thing only....I know Florida up to the Carolinas have them, never knew they'd stray so far inland...

These were the white pelicans. There was a huge Earth Day protest agin our beloved El Presidente in Eugene. Maybe they were headed there.

Lots of them in South Dakota.

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Here in SD every year this year they have black wings I don’t remember that much black on the wings in past years but lots of white ones.

Was on Petenwell flowage about 6-8 years ago and there were lots of them out then. We get a lot of them on Lake Winnebago. They wait until the fishermen toss the buffolo fish and the scrounge them up.
The ones I have seen were brown pelicans. Did have a small flock of white ones use a marsh a mile from us for less then a week and then they were gone.

Bryce

Plenty white pelicans in Colorado, both side of the Rockies!

Seen them a few times here in West Michigan............ certainly makes you look twice !!

We occasionally get pelicans and terns here in Central Ohio and always have seagulls now. Some of the dumps have thousands of seagulls. Most strip malls, with fast food restaurants, have seagulls. They nest on the stones on the roofs.

When I was a kid, we would usually only get seabirds after a bad storm. The seabirds are much more common now.

Keith