Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 19312-4716a

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.