Pelicans

Juvenile & Adult California Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis)

Point Lobos State Reserve
Carmel, California

Seeing Brown Pelicans perched in trees is something we don't expect to see, but here they are comfortable resting in a cypress!

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