Pelicans on posts

["Philip Veerman" <>]

No! It was me who started it with my post on Sat 19-Jan-19 6:26 PM, with the alliterative “Pelicans perching on poles”. Inspired by light poles at Batemans Bay and elsewhere. My enquiry was about why such big birds without the benefit of feet adapted to perching, would bother to do this, as it just looks so incongruous. My best answer is they mainly do it to avoid being bothered by people and dogs walking past. Applying the issue to cormorants is not that interesting, as they are not so big and routinely perch on trees.

 

Philip

 

From: Birding-Aus [ On Behalf Of Peter Shute
Sent: Saturday, 9 February, 2019 12:36 PM
To: Geoffrey Dabb
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Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Pelicans on posts

 

I went looking for a photo of that when this conversation started, but couldn’t find one. I think it was originally supposed to be for cormorants. Can anyone confirm that?

 

Peter Shute

 

On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 12:16 pm, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Found this while looking for something else.  Werribee 2012.  Purpose-built,  evidently.

 

Geoffrey

 

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