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Posted: 31 Mar 2019


Taken: 28 Mar 2019

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Pelican being watched while pelican watches something else

Pelican being watched while pelican watches something else
Until I looked it up later, I thought the Spanish name for pelican was
pilagro. I must have misheard the man who told me what to call it.

Too bad, because I liked the similarity to milagro and to peregrino or
pilgrim, and I was admiring to myself how modern day pilgrims, tourists,
paid close attention to the pelicans. But the real etymology of of the
English word pelican (and its Spanish cognate pelícano) is with reference
to its beak which looked to someone centuries ago like an axe, a pelekan in
Greek.

Nonetheless, I like how the woman and the bird in this picture are putting
up with one another, maybe communing in the salt spray.

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