Another lovely photo by Harvey Schmidt.

Apparently the collective noun for pelicans isn't

as established, or as agreed upon as it is for these birds: a murder of crows, a bellowing of bullfinches, an exaltation of larks... Some think the pelican version should be "a pod of pelicans," others prefer "A pouch of pelicans," but we like the grand sound of "a panache of pelicans."