What is this bird? What is the name of this bird and what is the large bump on the top of the bill? It is a bad picture as it was a long distance and into the sun.

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What is this bird?

Apr 30, 2023 17:19:28 #

Bob in SD Loc: Sioux Falls, SD

What is the name of this bird and what is the large bump on the top of the bill?
It is a bad picture as it was a long distance and into the sun.

Apr 30, 2023 17:20:13 #

newsguygeorge Loc: Victoria, Texas

Looks like a white pelican.

Apr 30, 2023 17:23:59 #

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Yep. White Pelican.

Apr 30, 2023 17:35:30 #

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Full name is American White Pelican. The bump is displayed only during courting season. Apparently, the ladies love it

Apr 30, 2023 17:44:33 #

Bob in SD Loc: Sioux Falls, SD

Linda From Maine wrote:

Full name is American White Pelican. The bump is displayed only during courting season. Apparently, the ladies love it

Thank you for the info!!!

Apr 30, 2023 19:56:20 #

jdtonkinson Loc: Red Wing, MN

Nice, there has been many white Pelicans on the Mississippi river

May 1, 2023 08:52:44 #

maxlieberman Loc: 19027

It is a white pelican during mating season.

May 1, 2023 16:25:09 #

bluezzzzz Loc: Stamping Ground, KY

Linda From Maine wrote:

Full name is American White Pelican. The bump is displayed only during courting season. Apparently, the ladies love it

Apparently the ladies have one, too! From Cornell Lab of Ornithology: "A highly fibrous, epidermal plate arises vertically and dorsomedially about one third distance from tip of upper mandible, plate (somewhat erroneously termed a "horn") highly variable in size with base being 40-80 mm and height ranging from barely detectible to more than 60 mm, with that of males in pairs seemingly larger (FLK). Function of plate not clearly defined, but it is probably involved in courtship or agonistic behavior during pairing and territory establishment; plate shed during Presupplemental molt."

For a yearly membership, Cornell provides a LOT of info, some of which I'm able to understand. lol!

Marshall

May 1, 2023 16:44:15 #

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Bob in SD wrote:

What is the name of this bird and what is the large bump on the top of the bill?
It is a bad picture as it was a long distance and into the sun.

Definitely what the others said, but the question is, what is that thingy on his beak

May 1, 2023 19:15:37 #

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Linda From Maine wrote:

Full name is American White Pelican. The bump is displayed only during courting season. Apparently, the ladies love it

Don

May 3, 2023 18:34:30 #

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

Pelican

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