Pelicans

[OkieJoe72]

For the last several years, white Pelicans are showing up in pretty good numbers on a lake close to me in SW Oklahoma. Seeing them this evening made me wonder if they are legal to hunt since they are a migratory bird and also because I’ve had duck hunting on my mind all day. I did a search for pelican on the ODWC website, and there is only one reference to Pelicans at the bottom of the Migratory Game Birds page listed as Nongame Migratory Bird identification. I’ve looked at that website probably a thousand times and never noticed the nongame migratory bird section. ODWC might want to make it a little more noticeable for all us rednecks wanting to shoot a “Big White looking Duck”.

 

[retrieverman]

I see pelicans up around Salt Plains on a fairly regular basis and never had an inclination to shoot.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Usually only listed if their is a bag limit.










I am kidding!

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

I love pelicans. They are so majestic in flight...I love watching them. Saw this guy last spring at Lake Lawtonka:

 

[OkieJoe72]

I see pelicans up around Salt Plains on a fairly regular basis and never had an inclination to shoot.

I’ve never had a desire to shoot them either but I did get curious this evening if they were legal to hunt.

 

[OkieJoe72]

I love pelicans. They are so majestic in flight...I love watching them. Saw this guy last spring at Lake Lawtonka:

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Great pics! Grew up on that lake, but I never remember seeing Pelicans until maybe around 10 years ago or so.

 

[PanhandleGlocker]

Damn I thought this thread was gonna be about pelican cases not the actual bird. Didn’t know they came through parts of Oklahoma.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Saw several at Lake Altus/Lugert a week ago, too.

 

[turkeyrun]

They were protected.

There is and island, south of New Orleans, that the white pelicans use as a nursery.

The goobermint, in it's infinite wisdom, had settled a large group of Vietnamese (fishermen) refugees in South Louisiana.

An agent for goobermint was checking up on the refugees, to see how they were settling in, if the fishing was good, any problems.
The leader / spokesman for the group said everything was great. They had located this island that was full of the dumbest birds ever. Easy to catch, they just sit on their nest and very tasty.

Fish and Game was called out. Sure enough, the pelicans were about wiped out.

 

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