{"id":48267,"date":"2017-08-26T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=48267"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:06:51","slug":"one-funny-looking-american-white-pelican-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2017\/08\/26\/one-funny-looking-american-white-pelican-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"One Funny Looking American White Pelican Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HeadHead on American White Pelican photo – Nikon D500, f6.3, 1\/2500, ISO 320, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of my photos make me laugh, I can’t always explain why but in some cases I can. This photo made me laugh when I viewed it on my camera LCD screen and then I laughed again when I viewed it on my computer monitor.<\/p>\n

To me it looks like this American White Pelican was doing an impression of a floating, domestic white turkey because when the pelican was facing me nearly head on the length of pelican’s long bill seemed to disappear and the pouch looked more like a wattle.<\/p>\n

It just looks odd.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican White Pelican swimming past on an August day – Nikon D500, f6.3, 1\/3200, ISO 250, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

In this photo taken of the same bird you can see the long bill and the pouch that pelicans, brown or white, are famous for.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t take much to amuse me some days.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my American White Pelican photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To me it looks like this American White Pelican was doing an impression of a floating, domestic white turkey because when the pelican was facing me nearly head on the length of pelican’s long bill seemed to disappear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,124,27,1148,26],"tags":[4004,3966,5552,4040,4157,5023,4094,4154,4,706,4095,6064],"class_list":["post-48267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-pelicans","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-american-white-pelican","tag-bill","tag-feeding","tag-funny","tag-head-on","tag-marsh","tag-pelecanus-erythrorhynchos","tag-pelican","tag-pelicans","tag-wetlands","tag-white-pelican"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t