Not your Normal NW bird

[Goldeneye]

This guy was flying up and down the river for a few days while my dad  and I were plunking for steelhead.  He would land occasionally and walk the sand bars.  One morning after it froze we found him frozen to death.  I contacted my local taxidermist and he did not want to see it unless I got it cleared by Fish & Game.  I called fish & Game, they instructed me this is a federal bird, though the biologist had never seen one up here.  I asked them if they wanted it and they said yes.  This is a Peruvian Pelican.  The biologist thought he may have been blown in with a storm system and got lost.    Anyways, thought I'd share a picture of a pretty cool bird.

[wadu1]

Cool looking bird, sorry you did not get to keep him/her

[deaner]

pretty cool looking, shame you werent able to have it mounted.  if its a bird that cant even survive here, and is only here from some random accident, kinda messed up the state gets to take it from you.

[MrsTurkeyFeather]

Wow, that is cool...hopefully they'll do something more than just toss it in the garbage.

[denali]

wow, what find,  cool you got to see it cruising the river alive.

[Scottystyle]

Frozen alive ?  Just standing like that?    Cool looking bird though 

[Goldeneye]

Frozen alive ?  Just standing like that?    Cool looking bird though 

No he was alive at this point.  He died a couple days later.  He was fairly docile...

[h20hunter]

To bad about the birdie....any luck on the chromies?

[Goldeneye]

Caught 7 over the holiday while fishing with my father.  That's enough winter steel for now.  Time for me to get back to bird hunting. 

[Moose-head]

Cool bird and a good call by your taxidermist

[boneaddict]

Wow, Interesting find

[BOWHUNTER45]

I think he made the news ...I heard something about an unusual bird along some river but I did not make it to the TV quick enough ...CRAZY !!!!!!!!

[James]

Are you sure that’s not a Brown Pelican?  There are tons of those on the coast, and they occasionally show up in the Puget Sound region.

Flying solo makes it seem like life dealt him a bad deal and he wasn’t able to bluff his way out of it.

[Goldeneye]

Are you sure that’s not a Brown Pelican?  There are tons of those on the coast, and they occasionally show up in the Puget Sound region.

The Biologist didn't think it was a brown.  Could have been I suppose.  It was a protected bird either way.

[BLDtraLR]