Speaker 1: Oh hey, it's that lady in the park just staring
Speaker 1: at pigeons, trying to imagine what's on their minds. Ali
Speaker 1: word back with more ologies to gulp into your mouth, pouch,
Speaker 1: oh open wide for Thismology's episode about pelicans. Here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: They're g rated, so they're classroom safe. This one is
Speaker 1: all about birds with big mouths now. If you want
Speaker 1: the full episode, you can click the link in the
Speaker 1: show notes. Those are a little racier, more in depth.
Speaker 1: But this is a great digest if you're carpooling to
Speaker 1: school or you need something to send your grandma. If
Speaker 1: she does not swear, maybe she does, but anyway, clean version, shorter, enjoy. Okay, pelicanology.
Speaker 1: Others have used this word before, so we're using it now.
Speaker 1: So pelican seems to come from pelicus, which is the
Speaker 1: Greek for ax, because of the bird's long axe. Handily,
Speaker 1: Bill So I started following this ologist recently and her
Speaker 1: pinned tweet is a video of what appears to be
Speaker 1: tiny plucked chickens that are dancing, but they are actually
Speaker 1: squawking pelican infants, And I love them. So I messaged
Speaker 1: her three words in all caps, let's talk delicans as
Speaker 1: one does in a professional correspondence, and her response was
Speaker 1: I can talk about dinosaur f loofs all day. So
Speaker 1: we hopped on the horn to chat about bird nerds
Speaker 1: and big bills and saggy sacks, wingspans, spine illusions, dive
Speaker 1: bombs and more. So open your ears and mouth pouches
Speaker 1: for Pelicanologists, Jueta Martinez, alogy milogychious knowledgies. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been like there needs to be a Pelicanology episode?
Speaker 2: I mean on the inside, like very deep.
Speaker 1: Maybe you would know that you're going to know this
Speaker 1: better than I would. Are you a pelicanologist? Have you
Speaker 1: ever used that word?
Speaker 2: I actually have never used that word.
Speaker 3: But starting from today, I'm actually going to change my
Speaker 3: Twitter bio.
Speaker 1: I checked, and she changed her Twitter bio to read
Speaker 1: PhD student hashtag dinosaur f loofs equals brown pelicans plus
Speaker 1: pelicanology And now what about brown pelicans? First off, what
Speaker 1: is a pelican? Is a pelican only the kind of
Speaker 1: have the purse attached to their face.
Speaker 2: I've never actually heard someone say that. That is awesome.
Speaker 2: I love that description of it.
Speaker 1: So a handbag for a mouth.
Speaker 2: That is a good one. I love it.
Speaker 3: Yes, So all pelicans have a purse which is better
Speaker 3: known as a google arm pouch, and that's what helps
Speaker 3: them survive.
Speaker 1: That is how they catch their food. Gool art means
Speaker 1: throat in Latin. So what google arc pouch is pelican
Speaker 1: face person, That's what it is.
Speaker 2: Brown pelicans specifically actually plunge dive, so from about thirty
Speaker 2: feet or so up in the air, they will spot
Speaker 2: school of fish and then just dive down and use
Speaker 2: that pouch to basically scoop up all the fish. It's
Speaker 2: in my purse.
Speaker 1: And what do they do with all the water that
Speaker 1: they also scoop up?
Speaker 3: So if there's other birds around, such as gulls that
Speaker 3: try to like steal the fish from their mouths, they
Speaker 3: will just slightly open their builds and let the water
Speaker 3: like seep out until there's just fish in their pouch.
Speaker 1: Why do they need so many fish? This is what
Speaker 1: I can't understand because they're kind of big birds, right,
Speaker 1: But other big birds they catch a fish, they catch
Speaker 1: a thing at a time. But pelicans are like in it.
Speaker 1: I feel like they have the best equipment in the game,
Speaker 1: Like why do they need to catch so much fish?
Speaker 2: I would think it depends on the season.
Speaker 3: So if they're trying to feed their chicks, they have
Speaker 3: about a maximum of three chicks. So if you think
Speaker 3: about a pelican, they're about sixteen pounds, which is quite
Speaker 3: a bit of weight. And on top of that, they
Speaker 3: have to feed themselves have enough energy to fly around
Speaker 3: and catch the fish. But then they also have one
Speaker 3: to three mouths to feed. They're gonna need quite a
Speaker 3: bit of fish for that. And these pelicans are born
Speaker 3: completely naked and with their eyes shut, so they're completely
Speaker 3: reliant on their parents for quite a few months.
Speaker 1: And then what about their wingspan? Because the sixteen pound
Speaker 1: bird's pretty big. How big are the wings to keep
Speaker 1: it aloft?
Speaker 2: It's about six feet, which is taller than me.
Speaker 1: Oh that's huge. Yeah, that's like a condor size, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good social distancing size.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: That needs to be your new campaign. Is everyone's stay
Speaker 1: one pelican wingspan away from each omd oh my god.
Speaker 1: So sixteen pounds six feet? Because are they all inland?
Speaker 1: I mean, are they all golf or or coastal or
Speaker 1: are they inland too?
Speaker 2: So we have two species.
Speaker 3: In North America, we have the brown pelican and the
Speaker 3: white pelican, And actually the brown pelican is smaller than
Speaker 3: the white pelican by about ten pounds or so.
Speaker 2: And the brown.
Speaker 3: Pelican stays on a coastline like up and down the
Speaker 3: West coast and then throughout the Gulf of Mexico and
Speaker 3: up to North Carolina ish And the white pelicans, on
Speaker 3: the other hand, you can't see them on the coast,
Speaker 3: but they breed inland.
Speaker 1: How many pelican species are there in the world. I
Speaker 1: looked it up. There are eight, in case that ever
Speaker 1: comes up in a game of Pelican trivia. And now
Speaker 1: you call them flute dinosaurs, dinosaur.
Speaker 2: Flufes, dinosaur blops.
Speaker 1: Are they really fuzzy?
Speaker 2: Okay? So there's like this middle stage.
Speaker 3: They're born naked and then they start getting these little
Speaker 3: hint feathers and they get their down feathers first. And
Speaker 3: that down feather is what sparked the hashtag. So down
Speaker 3: feather is the insulating part of their body and it's
Speaker 3: really soft and fluey, and so when you're holding a
Speaker 3: kind of baby pelican that just has down feathers, they're
Speaker 3: pretty fluefy, and I feel very lucky.
Speaker 1: So you've gotten to hold them.
Speaker 3: Yes, So we have a project because Louisiana is losing
Speaker 3: land at a very rapid rate because it's sinking and
Speaker 3: the sea level is rising. So these islands that are
Speaker 3: perfect habitats for these Pelicans to raise their youngs are
Speaker 3: actually getting overtopped and just completely disappearing. We don't really
Speaker 3: understand what happens to pelicans once their islands disappear, because
Speaker 3: their instinct is to come back to the same islands
Speaker 3: that they were born on. And so what I've been
Speaker 3: doing is I am putting leg bands on these pelicans
Speaker 3: so that future grad students once I'm graduated, are able
Speaker 3: to go back and track these bands and hopefully we'll
Speaker 3: get a better understanding of where they moved to.
Speaker 1: So apparently only thirty percent of Pelicans survive their first
Speaker 1: year of life. Only two percent make it to age ten,
Speaker 1: but some some have been known to live until their forties,
Speaker 1: so some are out there. There's a gen X Pelican
Speaker 1: listening to britpop. But how do they tell who's who?
Speaker 3: So my lab does orange bands, and other labs that
Speaker 3: study pelicans use different color bands, and these color bands
Speaker 3: are really large, so we can see them from really
Speaker 3: far away without having to disturb the birds.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. When I was looking at baby pelicans
Speaker 1: on your Twitter, I myself had an impulse to want
Speaker 1: to give them one tiny kiss on their heads. Is
Speaker 1: that a normal impulse for a person?
Speaker 2: I would say yes.
Speaker 3: But if you ever come down to Louisiana and come
Speaker 3: out to the islands with me, I think you will
Speaker 3: be satisfied just by holding them, because I will say,
Speaker 3: they might be flufy, but they're all so very stinky.
Speaker 3: So a hug A hug is as far as I
Speaker 3: usually want to go with it.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: I know that it is like, not a good idea
Speaker 1: to put my mouth on wildlife. For the wildlife's sake.
Speaker 1: Do not put your mouth on wildlife. The wildlife does
Speaker 1: not want you to. Also, I looked at the fluffs,
Speaker 1: and they look like what would come out of the dryer,
Speaker 1: like in the lint hatch after washing a load of
Speaker 1: brand new flufy towels. So picture lintball, but with big, clappy,
Speaker 1: flappy face parts. But when they're born, they are indeed featherless.
Speaker 1: They look like little alive frozen chickens. So cute, so cute.
Speaker 1: I can't anto it.
Speaker 3: And the gular pouch or the purse is so tiny
Speaker 3: on the babych.
Speaker 2: Fix and they're just oh my gosh. It gets me
Speaker 2: every time.
Speaker 1: When you're talking about doing restoration work to make sure
Speaker 1: that they have a home that they can come back to,
Speaker 1: or that they have habitat that they can inhabit. How
Speaker 1: do you do that if you're up against things like
Speaker 1: sea levels rising and like land sinking. What do you do?
Speaker 3: So right now Louisiana's being restored, but not by me.
Speaker 3: They actually have agencies such as the Coastal Protection and
Speaker 3: Restoration Act, and different groups of people that come out
Speaker 3: here and basically perform something called dredging. So they put
Speaker 3: in these pipes basically under the ocean level, and what
Speaker 3: they do is they pump a bunch of sediments from
Speaker 3: the ocean floor onto these islands.
Speaker 2: WHOA, So we're basically just.
Speaker 3: Building land from the ocean floor, just putting it up.
Speaker 2: And these pipes go for miles.
Speaker 1: When you are tracking them, I mean, can you see
Speaker 1: on a year to year basis any any change or improvement?
Speaker 3: Yes, So some islands have been restored and some have not.
Speaker 3: And what my research aims to do is to compare
Speaker 3: the pelican populations on these two different sets of islands
Speaker 3: across coastal Louisiana, and our preliminary data is telling us
Speaker 3: that there is a larger population on restored island, which
Speaker 3: means the restoration is working and the billions.
Speaker 2: Of dollars is not being wasted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we also found that chicks are more likely
Speaker 3: to reach that age where they can fly away and
Speaker 3: fend for themselves on restored islands versus those that are
Speaker 3: born on unrestored islands, which is really helpful because no
Speaker 3: one's actually looked at that yet.
Speaker 1: How are their numbers like when? When did they start
Speaker 1: to maybe take a dip?
Speaker 3: So by nineteen sixty three, brown pelicans were completely extinct
Speaker 3: from the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Yes, due to DDT.
Speaker 3: So if they if they keep laying eggs and the
Speaker 3: eggs keep getting crushed, or if the nest keeps failing,
Speaker 3: they'll actually leave the area.
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm out of here, oh man.
Speaker 2: And a brown pelican is the state bird.
Speaker 3: So for the state to not have brown pelicans did
Speaker 3: it really make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's so there was this huge push to re establish
Speaker 3: the population here and the way that they did it
Speaker 3: was they actually brought a little over one thousand brown pelican.
Speaker 2: Chicks from Florida. So for the most part, all of.
Speaker 3: The pelicans in Louisiana right now are descendants of the
Speaker 3: one thousand or so Florida population.
Speaker 1: That is nuts. So they were Louisiana's like, we either
Speaker 1: have to change the stay bird or we have to
Speaker 1: get more pelicans in here immediately.
Speaker 3: People yes, and they did the ladder, which I'm glad
Speaker 3: to say that it was a huge success and it
Speaker 3: took a lot of effort and I'm so happy that
Speaker 3: everyone involved like did their part.
Speaker 2: And right now we're just trying.
Speaker 3: To maintain their population and make sure it doesn't like
Speaker 3: decrease anymore. And they're doing pretty good right now. Their
Speaker 3: numbers could be a little bit better. It also depends
Speaker 3: on the fishery, So if there's less fish, less chicks
Speaker 3: are likely to survive and therefore their population isn't going
Speaker 3: to grow as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what happens if you take a Florida pelican
Speaker 1: and you move it to Louisiana. What if they don't
Speaker 1: like Louisiana's fish menu. Well, Jueta is collabbing with the
Speaker 1: Nelson Lab at the University of Louisiana to figure out
Speaker 1: their favorite fish, and it turns out their diet is
Speaker 1: ninety eight percent men Hayden, which is a silvery forked
Speaker 1: tail oily filter feeding fish. Now, men hayden are a
Speaker 1: staple in a lot of wildlife diets, So protecting this
Speaker 1: fish protects the pelicans as well as other sea and
Speaker 1: air critters that kind of pull up a seat to
Speaker 1: this feast that is a school of man hayden. How
Speaker 1: can they see from this guy? I mean, I realize
Speaker 1: they're pelicans, they're very good at this, but like they're
Speaker 1: cruising along, right, they have this thing flapping in the wind.
Speaker 1: Their face is flapping around. I'm picturing it, but it
Speaker 1: actually gets tucked, right.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know if tucked is the word.
Speaker 2: I would it's not.
Speaker 3: Necessarily like swaying, like I'm picturing it like like a windbreaker.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, Like I'm trying to picture like
Speaker 1: what it feels like. Is it like leather or denim
Speaker 1: or skin? These are questions that one can ask a pelicanologist.
Speaker 1: What do their bills or the pouch, like what is it?
Speaker 1: Do you have you ever touched it, Like, what does
Speaker 1: it feel like?
Speaker 3: It basically feels like saggy skin, like extremely saggy and rigges.
Speaker 2: And it's really flexible.
Speaker 1: That seems so cute. In case you ever need to
Speaker 1: brag about a pelican, just know that they can dive
Speaker 1: bombfish at forty miles an hour and their beaks, which
Speaker 1: have been unchanged for like thirty million years, slice the
Speaker 1: water to handle that speed and that velocity, and that
Speaker 1: pouch I read acts like a little parachute underwater to
Speaker 1: help slow them down. So essentially they're fighter jets, but
Speaker 1: cooler and smellier. And what are their nests like?
Speaker 3: So their nests they prefer to nest on taller shrubs
Speaker 3: because Louisiana floods quite often, so if they're on like
Speaker 3: taller vegetation, the chances of in nest flooding is smaller,
Speaker 3: and they tend to use sticks. So they're maybe like
Speaker 3: two and a half feet in diameter, pretty large nests,
Speaker 3: maybe a little smaller now I'm trying to think I've
Speaker 3: never actually measured of pelican nests, but they're pretty big.
Speaker 3: We're currently using drones to see we can get accurate
Speaker 3: nest counts.
Speaker 2: And you can definitely see the nests from a drone.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, do you have time? Do you mind getting
Speaker 1: asked patron questions?
Speaker 2: Oh? Mash yeah, bring Maddie. I'm so excited.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of Pelican questions. Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: question that I think I got the most. Elle McCall
Speaker 1: put it, well, the spine thing out of their throats.
Speaker 1: Please tell us everything and Evan Jude and Angela Menuhel
Speaker 1: and will play with said yes please, yes, yes, I'm
Speaker 1: dying to know what's happening with their spine out of
Speaker 1: their throats.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I totally saw that.
Speaker 3: So it's only like part of their it's like basically
Speaker 3: their neck vertebrae. So when they're doing that, they're actually
Speaker 3: just yawning, yeah, yawning slash stretching. So while I'm taking
Speaker 3: my camera chat photosm that actually.
Speaker 2: Happens all the time. Really, I recorded in my data
Speaker 2: sheet as yawning.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what other what other things are in
Speaker 1: your data sheet like like yawning, like eye rolling, farting,
Speaker 1: Like what do you have to do to shot down?
Speaker 3: I basically write down any and all behavior that I see,
Speaker 3: so everything from feeding. You can actually tell when a
Speaker 3: pelican chick is being fed because they're going to feed
Speaker 3: straight out of the pouch. So the baby chick's head
Speaker 3: is in the parents' big pouch basically picking out fish.
Speaker 1: And one more thing on that vertebrae coming out of
Speaker 1: the neck. It's actually just their neck showing through the
Speaker 1: bottom of their pouch when they yawner when they sit weird,
Speaker 1: but essentially, No, their spine isn't coming out of their neck.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like pushing through the bottom of
Speaker 1: their pouch normal.
Speaker 3: Something else I record is if there is any neighborly
Speaker 3: conducts happening, so they'll sometimes bicker with one another.
Speaker 4: David's stop acting like a disgruntled pelican.
Speaker 3: They're pretty territorial over their one little nest spot.
Speaker 1: Okay, I looked up video of this. Sometimes these little
Speaker 1: dinosaur flufs use their long bills to bite each other's bills,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like clacking a bunch of rulers together,
Speaker 1: but it looks like when my sisters and I would
Speaker 1: fight over baretts. Diane Pete wants to know do pelicans
Speaker 1: chew their food or do they just swallow it? And
Speaker 1: what's the largest prey a pelican can eat or is
Speaker 1: it mostly about like eating a bunch of jelly beans
Speaker 1: at once instead of eating like a whole cowzone.
Speaker 3: So they just do one big, big gulp. I'm sure
Speaker 3: if there's multiple fish in their pouch, though, they'll probably
Speaker 3: do a few big gulf. They don't chew on anything,
Speaker 3: so it's whole fish that they are swallowing and regurgitating
Speaker 3: for their young to eat.
Speaker 1: Do they regurgitate it? Is it like a slurry?
Speaker 2: No, it's actually a whole fish.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dang, Okay, I thought it. I was for sure.
Speaker 1: I thought that was gonna be like a fish smoothie.
Speaker 1: But it's just like bloop, just like taking a granola
Speaker 1: bar right out of your own stomach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically.
Speaker 1: This next one was asked by my pal Greg Wallach
Speaker 1: and Megan Walker, William Andrews, and Laura Merriman, who referenced
Speaker 1: the nineteen ten limerick by Dixon Linear Merit, an ornithology
Speaker 1: enthusiast and a professional humorist. The limericks, so goes a
Speaker 1: wonderful bird is the pelican. His bill will hold more
Speaker 1: than his pelican. He can take in his beak enough
Speaker 1: food for a week. So bill versus gastric capacity. Can
Speaker 1: a pelican's beak hold more than its pelican belly can?
Speaker 3: Yes, we used to tell that to our fifth and
Speaker 3: sixth graders when I was a naturalist back in the day.
Speaker 3: So it's beak can actually hold more than is belly
Speaker 3: can if you're counting the water volume.
Speaker 1: Oh yeat, and then it just squirts it out and
Speaker 1: then it keeps the fish.
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks a good que remember it.
Speaker 1: Thomas N. Wyndham wants to know if Pelican chicks toss
Speaker 1: their siblings out of the nest.
Speaker 3: Not usually, I have never seen them in my cameras,
Speaker 3: but there is sibling rivalry in the sense that if
Speaker 3: there is not enough food to go around, the youngest
Speaker 3: chick tends to not get fed.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, so the order and.
Speaker 3: That they were born is the order in which the
Speaker 3: parents will generally feed them.
Speaker 1: They can remember, But are are they like ten hours apart,
Speaker 1: like like how soon they hatch? Kind of It's more
Speaker 1: like a day or so, okay. And it's not that
Speaker 1: the parents remember. It's more that the older chicks are louder.
Speaker 3: They're more willing to like shove their siblings out of
Speaker 3: the way, like get to the parents first.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Megan Walker. How tough are their insides? And
Speaker 1: do the fish die right away? It seems like a
Speaker 1: fresh floppy fish would do some damage to the insides.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, just like our stomachs, their stomachs have
Speaker 3: pretty high acid content.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how fast the fish actually.
Speaker 3: Is like stop moving inside there, but I would assume
Speaker 3: it's pretty fast.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I look this up and apparently it's pretty acidic in there,
Speaker 1: and fish are not long for this world. Once in
Speaker 1: a bird belly. Ronan last question says, the brown pelican
Speaker 1: is my mom's favorite bird, which is amazing, And I
Speaker 1: asked her if she has a question, And so Ronan's
Speaker 1: mom wants to know. So do pelicans migrate or do
Speaker 1: they live in the same temperate location year round?
Speaker 3: So in Louisiana, we do have brown pelicans that hang
Speaker 3: around all year, but some of them actually do travel
Speaker 3: down to Central America.
Speaker 1: Ooh, and that's wintertime.
Speaker 3: Yes, so outside of February through like August, they can
Speaker 3: be somewhere else.
Speaker 1: I love the idea that they're just like little snowbirds,
Speaker 1: just having some fun. Some of they're on vacation, they
Speaker 1: just have a time share.
Speaker 3: I'm also jealous they get to leave, but I'm stuck
Speaker 3: in cold Louisiana.
Speaker 1: And you're just like waiting for them to come to back.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's literally my life. Like, actually, what about.
Speaker 1: Your favorite thing about pelicans or your work?
Speaker 3: The fact that I get to be so close to
Speaker 3: these birds is wild because very few people get that
Speaker 3: opportunity and being surrounded by ten thousand nesting birds, specifically pelicans.
Speaker 2: It's a wild experience, and pelicans are actually not that bad.
Speaker 3: It's all the other birds around them, from the turn
Speaker 3: to the skimmers to the lapping goals.
Speaker 2: They're super loud. But that's why I love.
Speaker 3: Taking volunteers out there when a pandemic isn't currently going on,
Speaker 3: because I get to see my field site in a
Speaker 3: whole new light and remember, oh yeah, most people don't
Speaker 3: get to see that happening, and it's like the coolest thing.
Speaker 3: I just went out into the field for the first
Speaker 3: time yesterday and I took one of my committee members
Speaker 3: and another grad student, both of whom have not been
Speaker 3: on the islands. And I know they're team fish, but
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say they were smiling from their ears, so.
Speaker 1: From one side of their pouch to the other. Yes,
Speaker 1: Oh that's so exciting. Well, you have given me a
Speaker 1: new appreciation of pelicans and pelican babies and their floppy
Speaker 1: skin pouches and their face purses.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call them face persa. So now I love that.
Speaker 1: Just digging around, just digging around that handbag. Oh look
Speaker 1: at this another fish. You never know I'm so glad
Speaker 1: I got a chance to talk to you. If I'm
Speaker 1: next time I come to Louisiana, I'm gonna look you up.
Speaker 1: I hope it's in field season.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, we.
Speaker 1: Have to have that would be awesome. So ask smart
Speaker 1: pelicanologists flappy saggy, sappy, silly questions because they love pelicans.
Speaker 1: And now, so do you look at that you love pelicans?
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Speaker 1: we like to keep things small around here. The rest
Speaker 1: of the credits are in the show notes. And if
Speaker 1: you stick around until the end of the episode, you
Speaker 1: know I give you a piece of advice. And this
Speaker 1: advice is that I always keep a little utensil kid
Speaker 1: in my backpack. It's got a bamboo fork, a knife,
Speaker 1: and a spoon in there as well as a straw.
Speaker 1: And not only is that better for the planet to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't really need to use any plastic cutensils right now,
Speaker 1: but also sometimes you're just stuck and you need a spoon.
Speaker 1: One time, I ate some peanut butter with a Q
Speaker 1: tip in a hotel room, and I said, this is
Speaker 1: never going to happen again, and now I travel with
Speaker 1: some silverware, So there you go. I hope that helps,
Speaker 1: and thanks for listening, and bryebye.
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