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Although the name for these juveniles are California brown pelicans, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, they can be seen from Nayarit Mexico north to British Columbia Canada, along the Pacific coast.
Their preferred nesting locations are uninhabited islands, so no predators, and 90% of their nests are in Mexico. All the American nests are in the Channel Islands of the off the coast from Oxnard, California.
As seen from the Carpinteria, California Beach,
16 August 2022.