POPULATION TREND: Based on the most recent publicly available data, the total population of U.S. eastern brown pelican has held steady over the past decade at around 40,000 nesting pairs. The Gulf ...

the pelican began recovering. It was removed from the endangered species list in Florida and along the Atlantic Coast in 1985, and in the rest of its range in November 2009. But just five months after ...

Recently while leading a photo tour throughout Florida to photograph birds, it occurred to me how much things have changed. I don’t mean how much things have become worse, or crowded, but ...

The birds have fought and won against greater threats than the oil spill — pesticides landed brown pelicans on the endangered species list but were de-listed just nine months ago. Rescue mission ...

In 1973, the U.S. Congress approved what I consider one of the most important actions to helping preserve the wide diversity of plant and animal life here. Richard Nixon was the president then and ...

The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Indian River Lagoon in East Central Florida became the first national wildlife refuge.