Great White Pelican

Great white pelicans are enormous waterbirds with white plumage, black flight feathers and long bills carrying expandable yellow throat pouches. Their broad range includes Africa, southeastern Europe, western and central Asia and portions of South Asia. They inhabit freshwater or saline lakes, broad rivers, lagoons, deltas and shallow marshes. Some populations migrate considerable distances between breeding colonies and nonbreeding feeding areas, often traveling in coordinated formations. (Animal Diversity Web)

Fish form most of the diet, although these pelicans also consume worms, crustaceans, amphibians and occasionally bird eggs. Groups may swim in a coordinated line or V formation, driving fish into shallow water before scooping them into their pouches. Colonies nest densely on islands, sandbanks, mudflats or reed beds. Both parents incubate the eggs and feed their young with food delivered from the bill or pouch. (Animal Diversity Web)