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Published: January 4th 2021
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FACES OF PELICANS
"A wonderful bird is a pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the helican."
I understand Dixon Lanier Merritt penned this as a limerick in 1910.
It was later published in 1940 by the American poet Ogden Nash, best known for his humorous rhyming verse, in his "The Face is Familiar" ...
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Fantastic
So glad to see a blog focused on these beautiful birds! We only have brown pelicans (I believe) in my part of the world, but the Australian variety are far more eye catching! Your captured the 'dance' beautifully!