“A wonderful bird is the pelican./His bill will hold more than his belican.”
This 1910 classic by Dixon Merritt neatly sums up one aspect of the pelican; the bird has a large throat pouch. In fact, the white pelican’s pouch holds up to three gallons, more than twice the capacity of its stomach.
The smaller pouch of the brown pelican holds up to a gallon.
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