{"id":289,"date":"2007-03-07T16:44:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T00:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/brown-pelican-soaring\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T03:26:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:26:29","slug":"brown-pelican-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/brown-pelican-soaring.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo of a Brown Pelican Soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/Photographing_California_Brown_Pelicans_in_La_Jolla.pdf\">Guide to Photographing Pelicans in La Jolla<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photos.html\">brown pelican<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis\">Pelecanus occidentalis<\/a><\/em>) is soaring over the ocean, riding the morning updrafts along the cliffs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=la_jolla__san_diego__california__usa__location\">La Jolla, California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican ...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=15371\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, La Jolla\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/brown-pelican-flight-pelecanus-occidentalis-photograph-15371-631748.jpg\" alt=\"Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, La Jolla\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=15371\">15371<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Brown Pelican photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photo.html\">Brown Pelican<\/a>, <a title=\"Pelecanus occidentalis photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis\"><i>Pelecanus occidentalis<\/i><\/a>, <a title=\"Pelecanus occidentalis californicus photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis_californicus\"><i>Pelecanus occidentalis californicus<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photo.html\">brown pelican photos<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis\">Pelecanus occidentalis photos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See our Guide to Photographing Pelicans in La Jolla. This brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is soaring over the ocean, riding the morning updrafts along the cliffs of La Jolla, California. Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,109,193],"tags":[212,303],"class_list":{"0":"post-289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pelicans-of-la-jolla","8":"category-san-diego","9":"category-seabird","10":"tag-birds","11":"tag-pelicans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}