His name, or so I'm told, is Willy, a five foot high male American White Pelican.
The brown pelican, also a gulf resident, was removed from the federal endangered-species list just last November.
Around 1, 400 Dalmatian pelicans, the world's largest variety of pelican, are thought to live in southern Russia.
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Garrett Calacci, a 35-year-old real-estate developer who has lived at the Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Beach, Calif.
The state flag and seal is adorned with a pelican, the state bird.
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The Pelican's successful flight probably means that the first big application for power beaming will be supplying energy to drones.
They include the brown pelican, the state bird of Louisiana, which nests on barrier islands and feeds near shore.
Next up could be the Boeing Pelican, an experimental concept aircraft from Boeing Phantom Works that makes everything else seem small.
This week, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal detailed a jobs strategy that could take the Pelican State into the Final Four of tax competition.
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Much hyped moments, like the ability to fly a Pelican at long last, are kind of a letdown once you see them in practice.
The psychology graduate was killed instantly on 20 February 2011 when Moore crashed into him on a pelican crossing, propelling his body 40m (131ft).
Sylvester Akapalara, a member of Herne Hill Harriers athletics club, was wounded in the neck and chest on the Pelican Estate in Peckham in December.
Pelican Hill, which opened during the depths of the economic downturn in 2008, actively courts long-term guests as a way to fill its two-bedroom villas.
Ms Samson said some of the worst roads did not have official crossings but even the ones with pelican or zebra crossings "could be perilous".
The 22-year-old psychology graduate, was killed instantly in February 2011 when 40-year-old Michael Moore, of Murrow Lane, Parson Drove, crashed into him on a pelican crossing.
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The struggling bird fitted nicely into the pelican's capacious pouch but was too big to be swallowed, so a prolonged mastication took place before the appalled visitors.
Like virtually everyone else who has had that encounter I whipped out my camera and recorded my disbelief for posterity and have been taking pelican pictures ever since.
"Busy or unsuitable traffic, fast vehicles, drivers who don't stop at zebra crossings and pelican crossings that don't give people enough time all create frustration, fear and danger", she continued.
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The promised land at day's end, where gelid martinis--conical pools of bliss--glow with platinum dew and sit atop their long pelican legs on the mahogany bar, sentries overlooking bowls of salty nuts.
At the moment when just about any other band might launch into a big, song-like restatement of the melody, Pelican slows down, as if air is being let out of a balloon.
Mr Butcher, a psychology graduate, was killed instantly in February 2011 when Michael Moore, 40, of Murrow Lane, Parson Drove crashed into him on a pelican crossing, propelling his body 40m (131ft).
"Winds with Hands, " one of the quietest cuts from Pelican's recent album City of Echoes, begins with acoustic strumming of an edgy but simple folk-tinged melody, building with each repetition of the tune.
The Chicago band Pelican came upon its instrumental sound in a bit of serendipity, when its members couldn't find a lead singer equal to the power and depth of their songs' melodies and arrangements.
Usually it is the afternoon pelican feeding at the waterfront that is a hit with passersby, but come December, the excitement peaks in Avoca when the Pines Charity Surf Classic takes place on the beachfront.
At The Resort at Pelican Hill, amid the hillside bungalows and private villas that overlook the world class Tom Fazio-designed golf courses, kids will find a retreat of their own at Camp Pelican Clubhouse.
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Drawing from sources as disparate as Black Sabbath, the indie-instrumentalists in Tortoise and the self-flagellating noise-masters in Swans, Pelican makes instrumental hard rock that whispers as much as it shouts, and teases as much as it pummels.
After marvelling at the grace of, say, a white pelican gliding after a school of fish, he would take aim with his hunting rifle, using fine shot so that the bird was not blown to pieces in the process.
They collected long-term historical records from 12 coastal areas in Europe and North America, including information on the Roman elimination of the Dalmatian pelican from the Wadden Sea and the removal of the Atlantic sturgeon from the Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware Bay.
Louisiana is the Pelican State.
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