Pelican

Pelican (Pen)

Type: Bird

Diet: Carnivore

Average life span in the wild: 10 to 25 years or more

Size: Body, 5.8 ft (1.8 m); wingspan, 10 ft (3 m)

Weight: 30 lbs (13 kg)

Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m)

Pelicans are found in many coastal areas of world also along the lakes and rivers, they are social birds they travels in groups, also breed in colonies

There are so many species of pelican but all they have is there throat pouch, and they are famous for that.

The pelicans are swims in groups to catch the fish, they drive fish into shallow water by beating their wings on the surface, and then they simply scoop them up.

Pelicans do not store fish in their pouch, but simply use it to catch them and then tip it back to drain out water and swallow the fish immediately.

Old Legends

As young pelicans grow, they begin to strike their parents in the face with their beaks. Though the pelican has great love for its young, it strikes back and kills them. After three days, the mother pierces her side or her breast and lets her blood fall on the dead birds, and thus revives them. Some say it is the male pelican that kills the young and revives them with his blood.
Pelicans live in Egypt. There are two kinds: one kind lives on water and eats poisonous animals like crocodiles and lizards; the other kind, with a long neck and beak, makes a sound like an ass when it drinks. Some say that the two kinds are distinguished by other attributes: the kind that live in water eat fish, while the kind that live on islands eat dirty animals. The pelican has an insatiable hunger, and because its stomach cannot hold food for long, everything it eats is immediately digested.

The pelican is Christ, who humanity struck by committing sin; the pelican cutting open its own breast represents Christ's death on the cross, and the shedding of his blood to revive us. The Aberdeen Bestiary adds that the hunger of the pelican signifies that "...the life of a hermit is modeled on the pelican, in that he lives on bread but does not seek to fill his stomach; he does not live to eat but eats to live."