A major study is under way to learn more about the potential impacts of the recent gulf oil spill on two of Minnesota’s migratory birds – common loons and American white pelicans.

Wild Canadian Year producer Sue Turner wanted to capture a really critical moment in the pelican's lives — finding a mate and laying eggs. Here, American white pelicans breed in a vast island ...

Unlike brown pelicans, American white pelicans do not dive but rather ... and encountering initial waves gracefully turn and take flight back upriver where they land and repeat the process ...