PeliTrack – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Gunnison Island Pelicans Are On The Move – Help Out By Reporting Wing Tagged American White Pelicans

By Mia McPherson|September 30th, 2018|Categories: American White Pelicans, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: American White Pelican, banded, Great Salt Lake Institute, Gunnison Island, migration, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelicam, pelican, pelicans, PeliTrack, reporting banded birds, tagged, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Westminster College, wing tagged, wing-tag|

Bird photographers, birders, nature watchers and citizen scientists can help out by reporting all banded birds including our Gunnison Island American White Pelicans.

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Reporting Wing Tagged American White Pelicans – Helping Birds by Helping the PELI Project

By Mia McPherson|April 13th, 2018|Categories: American White Pelicans, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: American White Pelican, banded, Great Salt Lake Institute, Gunnison Island, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelicam, pelican, pelicans, PeliTrack, reporting banded birds, tagged, Westminster College, wing tagged, wing-tag|

I know that I will be reporting any wing tagged American White Pelicans I see while they are here in northern Utah and I hope that others will too and help out the Peli Project!

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American White Pelicans – PeliCam and PeliTrack

By Mia McPherson|March 26th, 2017|Categories: American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American White Pelican, beak, bill, breeding colony, breeding season, caruncle, climate change, epidermal plate, flight, flock, fluffed up, flying, Great Salt Lake Institute, Gunnison Island, horn, nesting birds, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelicam, pelican, pelicans, PeliTrack, pond, ridge, sky, soaring, Tracy Aviary, water, Westminster|

American White Pelicans are returning to their breeding grounds in Utah and I have already seen a few of them myself and though I haven't been able to photograph them yet I know I will soon.

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American White Pelican in flight over Farmington Bay WMA – They Are Migrating

By Mia McPherson|October 10th, 2016|Categories: American White Pelicans, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: American White Pelican, flight, flying, marsh, migrate, migration, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, pelican, pelicans, PeliTrack, sky, wetlands|

If you would like to follow some of the American White Pelicans from Utah on migration a few of them have been fitted with solar-powered GPS transmitter backpacks and the PeliTrack map shows their locations.

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