00:14Here at Big Lake we have a lot of different birds, but the primary ones that most people
00:18notice are the white pelicans, the large guys out here, and then we also have a species of
00:22brown pelicans. So we have 11 whites, we have four browns, and then we have a lot of waterfowl as
00:27well. We have different types of ducks, shell ducks, geese. We also have a really neat black-necked
00:32stork out here, some crown cranes, so a real wide variety of birds that are here in this exhibit.
00:37White pelicans, they are one of the larger types of pelicans of the eight different species.
00:41These guys will get up to around 15 pounds and they work as a team. They will all be in
00:46a group,
00:47they'll kind of herd fish towards shallow water, and then they'll use that big beak to scoop out
00:51fish. Here we try to mimic as much as we can of their wild environment. Now white pelicans will
00:56live in both freshwater and saltwater, whereas brown pelicans will be primarily on the coastal
01:01areas, but we have a little bit of everything here. A lot of the birds that are here are actually
01:05here because of rehabilitation needs. They do not survive in the wild anymore. They've been injured
01:11in one way or another. Pelican species always like to stay together, so when you see them out in the
01:15wild they'll be in large groups and they kind of do the same here in the lake. They'll all be
01:20hanging
01:20out together. So all these birds, what one bird does, the other ten will follow.
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