{"id":51636,"date":"2018-04-13T06:55:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T12:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=51636"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:36:29","slug":"reporting-wing-tagged-american-white-pelicans-helping-birds-by-helping-the-peli-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/04\/13\/reporting-wing-tagged-american-white-pelicans-helping-birds-by-helping-the-peli-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Wing Tagged American White Pelicans – Helping Birds by Helping the PELI Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanAmerican White Pelicans feeding on Glover Pond, Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah<\/span><\/p>\n

The Great Salt Lake PELI Project<\/a> needs our help finding and reporting wing tagged American White Pelicans to help understand Utah\u2019s American White Pelican\u2019s migration patterns, breeding behavior, and survival rates. They work in partnership with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources on pelican research that involves marking pelicans with leg bands and wing tags.<\/p>\n

Last year I wrote a post titled American White Pelicans \u2013 PeliCam and PeliTrack<\/span><\/em><\/a> and I also donate the use of my American White Pelican images to the Peli Project because I believe in what they are doing and I want to help them out any way I can. Janice Gardner; a volunteer at the Peli Project, wrote to me a few days ago and asked if I could distribute a new info sheet on how to submit observations of wing tagged American White Pelicans in Utah and I was more than happy to help out.<\/p>\n

The new information sheet can be seen here:\u00a0 PELIProject Info Sheet 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"BandedBanded and Wing Tagged American White Pelican 9E3 – Glover Pond, Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah<\/span><\/p>\n

American White Pelicans banded and wing tagged from Gunnison Island<\/span><\/a> will have a green tag with a white alpha-numeric code, other locations will have different colored tags and alphanumeric codes, for instance the wing tagged pelican above that I found and photographed on August 6, 2014 at Glover Pond was banded and tagged at Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge in Minidoka County, Idaho, the tag is red, the alphanumeric code is white. The pelican was banded on July 18, 2012 when it was too young to fly.<\/p>\n

I have a more recent sighting of an American White Pelican that was banded on Gunnison Island but didn’t want to use the photo I took of it because the pelican was deceased.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you find a wing tagged American White Pelican in Utah you can report the sighting to John Neill at johnneill@utah.gov<\/span><\/a> or reportband.gov<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is needed to report a wing tagged American White Pelican:<\/p>\n