Night Activity in the Brown Pelican
- 31 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Colonial Waterbirds
- Vol. 12 (1) , 118-119
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1521322
Abstract
Activity patterns of Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) have previously appeared to be exclusively diurnal. We report on incidental observations of nocturnal activity in this species at the Chacopata lagoon complex in northeastern Venezula, during a study of night-feeding in shorebirds and other waterbirds. As the nocturnal presence of Brown Pelicans over our study area was noted on only three of 102 observations periods, the activity pattern of the species At Chacopata, as elsewhere, was clearly diurnal.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: