A wonderful bird is the Pelican,
His bill can hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

~ Dixon Lanier Merritt
(often incorrectly attributed to Ogden Nash)


This species of pelican has a practice of diving for fish by plunging into the water from flight.
The image above is just one of my countless failures trying to photograph one doing that just as
its bill touches the water, but 12 days later I did by pure chance catch one at that exact moment...

Photographed along the Gulf coast near Port Lavaca, Texas, USA.