Question

The pelican is a __________.

• A. Sea.
• B. Bird.
• C. River.
• D. Animal.

Answer 1

The correct option is B Bird.

Today we have eight species on all continents but Antarctica. We’ve got our American species, the White American Pelican and the Brown Pelican (which has California cousins). The White Pelican, a big bird, big wingspan up to ten feet, weighs up to thirty pounds and has a length up to seventy inches. The bird with white plumage accentuated by black-edged wings migrates south from northern breeding areas to lounge on the Gulf Coast and southern Atlantic coast. The smaller Brown Pelican—with silver-brown feathers, white head and chestnut nape, black legs, blue-gray skin on the face, a red to a green or black gular pouch, and yellow eyes—weighs ten to twenty pounds. Our little native (“little” in the relative sense) is rightfully the Pelican State’s official bird.