#the pelican state

[pangeen]

“ A Brown Pelican chill’n “ // Ayla

Music:  ChillHop - Lofi & Chill (Instrumental)

#California #United States #wildlife #bird #birds #Brown Pelican #reel #reels #explore #follow #discover

[mashkara45]

Odesa. The enemy once again "pelts" the unbreakable region with missiles. Rescuers eliminate the large-scale consequences of shelling. Difficult. They work hour after hour, overcoming fatigue.

Suddenly, hundreds of pelicans appear in the sky. They circle above the firefighters. Such snow-white ones, with proudly outstretched wings. They fly through dark, thick clouds of smoke and emerge again, just as light and white.

Whatever darkness the enemy tries to plunge Ukrainians into every time, the light will always be with us, in our hearts! We will overcome everything! We will win! And there will be no more black, acrid smoke. There will be a blue, Ukrainian sky. There will be Ukraine!

(c) The State Emergency Service of Ukraine

#genocide is russian culture #odesa #ukraine #white pelican #ecocide #russia is a terrorist state #russia commits genocide #russia commits ecocide #russia commits war crimes #russian war crimes #russian war on ukraine #russian invasion of ukraine

[christophermtaylor]

Point Lobos, California

#point lobos #Point Lobos State Reserve #california #Visit California #USA #pacific coast highway #Pacific Coast #pacific ocean #pelicans #birds #sunset #sunset chaser #nature photography #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #cmt photography #moody #moodyphotography

[sitting-on-me-bum]

American White Pelican, Darling National Wildlife Refuge, USA

by David DesRochers

Landscape Photography Magazine & Wild Planet Photo Magazine

#david desrochers #photographer #landscape photography magazine #wild planet photo magazine #american white pelican #pelican #bird photography #animal #darling national wildlife refuge #united states

[caveundertree]

Tarkiln State Park

It's wet

#photography #caveundertree #new phone camera #tarkiln state park #pelican

[tomorrowusa]

The Great Salt Lake is drying up and the Republican government of Utah is doing little to save it. They constantly cave to the usual groups: agricultural interests, mining, homeowners who like spacious lawns in an arid region, and big industry.

The largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere has been steadily shrinking, as more and more water has been diverted away from the lake to irrigate farmland, feed industry and water lawns. A megadrought across the US south-west, accelerated by global heating, has hastened the lake’s demise. Unless dire action is taken, the lake could decline beyond recognition within five years, a report published early this year warned, exposing a dusty lakebed laced with arsenic, mercury, lead and other toxic substances.The resulting toxic dustbowl would be “one of the worst environmental disasters in modern US history”, the ecologist Ben Abbott of Brigham Young University told the Guardian earlier this year. Despite such warnings, officials have failed to take serious action, local groups said in their lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday. “We are trying to avert disaster. We are trying to force the hand of state government to take serious action,” said Brian Moench of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, one of the groups suing state agencies. “Plaintiffs pray that this Court declare that the State of Utah has breached its trust duty to ensure water flows into the Great Salt Lake sufficient to maintain the Lake,” reads the lawsuit, which was brought by coalition that includes Earthjustice, the Utah Rivers Council, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, among others.

Political pressure has not been very effective in a state dominated by Republicans. The state's response is lukewarm at best. That's in addition to bizarre proposals.

The state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, has suspended new claims to water in the Great Salt Lake basin and appointed a commissioner to oversee response to the lake crisis. Last year, Utah’s legislature passed several conservation measures, including a $40m trust to support lake preservation projects. But Abbott and his colleagues, who authored a sobering report on the lake in January, found that those measures increased flows to the lake by just 100,000 acre feet in 2022. About 2.5m acre-feet a year of water will need to flow into the lake to bring it to a healthy level, the researchers estimated. That water will likely have to come at the expense of agriculture, which takes in about three-quarters of the water diverted away from the lake to grow mostly alfalfa and hay. Cities and mineral extraction operations each take up another 9% of diverted water. But wresting water away from agriculture is politically complicated. Officials have explored propositions to pay farmers to fallow land and use less water, though such proposals have yet to gain much tractions. Lawmakers have also offered up a series of out-of-the-box solutions – including cloud seeding, which uses chemicals to prompt more precipitation – or building a giant pipeline from the Pacific Ocean.

Seriously, a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean? This is a classic idiotic GOP way to deal with an environmental catastrophe which doesn't get to the root of the problem.

Already, the lake has lost 73% of its water and 60% of its surface area, and is becoming saltier, threatening native flies and brine shrimp. A diminished lake may be unable to support the more than 10 million migratory birds that stop over in the region. A white pelican colony recently abandoned a nesting site on the lake, potentially due to declining water levels. “In addition to the millions of people who live here, so many plants and animals depend on the lake,” said Deeda Seed, Utah campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The health of northern Utah’s entire population depends on the Great Salt Lake’s survival and I hope this lawsuit can help save it.”

^^^ emphasis added

Yep, take their asses to court to save the body of water which gave the state's largest city its name.

#utah #great salt lake #water levels #diversion of water #the environment #migratory birds #white pelicans #brine shrimp #republicans #utah state government #spencer cox #deeda seed #brian moench #ben abbott #earthjustice #utah rivers council #the sierra club #center for biological diversity #utah physicians for a healthy environment

[travelella]

American White Pelican, Cypress Point Public Use Area, Ellzey Rd, Sardis, Mississippi, USA

Joshua J. Cotten

Scientific name: Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

Mass: 14 lbs (Adult)

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing)

Class: Aves

Domain: Eukaryota

Family: Pelecanidae

Genus: Pelecanus

The American white pelican is a large aquatic soaring bird from the order Pelecaniformes. It breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts, as far as Costa Rica, in winter.

#American White Pelican #Cypress Point Public Use Area #Ellzey Rd #Sardis #Mississippi #USA #MSWildlife #Wildlife #Birds #Bird #Pelican #Pelicans #US #United States #United States of America #North America #Pelecanus erythrorhynchos #Aves #Eukaryota #Pelecanidae #Pelecanus

[doublescribble]

C.J. McCollum, Moses Moody, Kevon Looney and Jonathan Kuminga

#C.J. McCollum #CJ McCollum #Moses Moody #Kevon Looney #Jonathan Kuminga #basketball #sports #nba #new orleans pelicans #golden state warriors #smoothie king center #chase center #illustration #illustrators #illustrators on tumblr #art #artists #artists on tumblr

[sdvbloglushvalleys]

FORGOT TO TELL YALL I GOT 100 LEVELS

#hob run #mr qi #pelican town is a one man surveillance state #i used the elevator mod but still

[delicatebluebirdruins]

mad pelicans/ pelicans in your pocket

two achievements for resident evil 7 where you collect antique coins (looking at them they have a image of a pelican)

Louisiana where the game is set is known as the Pelican state.

because both types of pelican's found in north america inhabit the state one all year and one during winter

#random fun thing #all this because i was looking up haunted locations in louisiana and the site i was on (pelican state of mind) #resident evil #resident evil 7 #resident evil biohazard #did the makers mention which abandoned place they went to in the document file? idk can't check lost the book #ethan winters #mia winters #i was looking them up because of that twitter thread #about spooky lousisana locations

[graveyardrabbit]

#my videos #from yesterday #California #Gazos Creek State Beach #birds #brown pelican #there they go

[bethrnoora]

i need to go back to my recent stardew valley save sometime...my farmer gave elliott a quartz on accident and now he doesn't like us

#im trying to romance him btw. rip #my farmer is a dude named ackerley who will eventually become the foremost pig farmer in the tri-state pelican town area

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Pelicans on a the beach of Puerto Piritu Lagoon in Anzoategui State, Venezuela. Venezuela declared a 90-day health alert in five coastal states after detecting cases of AH5N1 avian influenza in pelicans for the first time in the country.

Photograph: Carlos Reyes/PUERTO PIRITU MAYOR'S OFFICE/AFP/Getty Images

#carlos reyes #photographer #puerto piritu mayor's office #afp via getty images #pelican #bird photography #puerto piritu lagoon #anzoategui state #venezuela #nature #animal

[lucasbarr]

Colin looking at Marina/Edwina/or anyone that isn’t Penelope:

Colin looking at Penelope:

#pelican #polio #anti penelope featherington #not tagging this with anything because I’m not looking for a fight #just stating facts #so 🤷‍♀️

[mouseandboo]

Postcrossing US-8727938 by Gail Anderson Via Flickr: Postcard with a picture of the state flag of Louisiana. Sent by a Postcrossing member in the United States.

#Flag #Bird #United States #Louisiana #Blue #Pelican #Nest #Postcard #POstcrossing #flickr

[travelella]

Brown Pelican - The Port A Jetty, East Cotter Avenue, Port Aransas, Texas, USA

Joshua J. Cotten

Scientific name: Pelecanus occidentalis

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing) 

Mass: 6.9 lbs (Adult) 

Class: Aves

Domain: Eukaryota

Family: Pelecanidae

Brown pelicans live year-round in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the southeastern coast. They also migrate to spend winters in central California and summers on the Northwest and mid-Atlantic coasts. They find habitats around coastal beaches and lagoons.

#The Port A Jetty #East Cotter Avenue #Port Aransas #Texas #USA #US #United States #United States of America #North America #Birds #Bird #Wildlife #TXWildlife #Brown Pelican #Pelican #Pelecanus occidentalis #Aves #Eukaryota #Pelecanidae