{"id":48431,"date":"2017-09-12T05:09:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=48431"},"modified":"2024-02-22T06:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:32:27","slug":"american-white-pelican-dumping-a-load-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2017\/09\/12\/american-white-pelican-dumping-a-load-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"American White Pelican Dumping a Load in Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I shared a few of the wading birds I saw on my last trip up to Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge<\/span><\/a> and today I am sharing photos of an American White Pelican I photographed on the same day. I was waiting and watching for Forster’s Terns to fly by and a few pelicans took off from the north and flew in close enough to photograph in flight. A couple of the pelicans flew in small groups of three and four and a few flew by themselves. It is always hard to get all of these large white birds sharp in a group so a few times I opted to focus on the single birds because it is by far easier to get one bird sharp.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican White Pelican defecating while in flight – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2500, ISO 320, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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When I focused on this bird I didn’t know I’d be photographing an American White Pelican dumping a load while flying over the marshes at the refuge with the Promontory Mountains in the background. This is a great example of why people should keep their mouths closed when these white pelicans fly directly over our heads though!<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican White Pelican pooping while in flight – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2500, ISO 320, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I took five frames of this American White Pelican pooping in flight before it stopped relieving itself and continued its flight to the southeast. These aren’t spectacular photos but I always find pooping bird photos a bit funny and of course these images do document natural behavior.<\/p>\n

Bombs away!<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

When I focused on this bird I didn’t know I’d be photographing an American White Pelican dumping a load while flying over the marshes at the refuge with the Promontory Mountains in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121759,"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":[4004,3966,5135,4052,4122,4094,6084,4154,4,706,3917,4528,4095,6064],"class_list":["post-48431","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-defecating","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-marsh","tag-natural-behavior","tag-pelecanus-erythrorhynchos","tag-pelican","tag-pelicans","tag-pooping","tag-promontory-mountains","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