Great white pelican

Like all pelicans this great white pelican always has a scoop to hand. Its throat pouch can stretch to take in a lot of fish. When fishing, it likes to work in a team. It will then swim with its mates in a semicircle and they hunt fish together. Pelicans also like to live in a group.

In April or May, the males start looking for a female. They then develop an unusual horn on the upper bill which they lose after the breeding season.

In medieval times, people used to think that the mother wounded her own breast and fed her young with her blood if there was no food. In the breeding period, some pelicans have a red mark on their crop and throat pouch which resembles a bleeding wound.