What's the difference between flamingo and pelican?
Flamingo
Definition:
(n.) Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
Example Sentences:
(1) I Only Have Eyes for You – The Flamingos Or, to the armchair grammarian, "I Have Eyes Only for You".
(2) Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).
(3) Nearby are two wildlife refuges where flamingos and pelican nest.
(4) In three flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber), which died showing extensive necrotic inflammation of the skin of the webs and the legs, the presence of abundant mycelium and arthrospores was shown in the altered dermis and epidermis.
(5) The nesting flamingos and moulting grebes from the same water body were also infected to a great extent with these cestodes.
(6) Tina Baier, Süddeutsche Zeitung France Facebook Twitter Pinterest Greater flamingos in the Camargue.
(7) In 1974, 51 debilitated lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) were easily captured at Lake Nakuru, Kenya.
(8) The English family had the equivalent of more than £1m hidden in FLAMINGO 22, a numbered Swiss account .
(9) They were horrified by my behaviour but my father paid for Pink Flamingos .
(10) The blue–green area to the east is the Salar de Surire, a salt plain containing several lakes with nesting flamingo colonies.
(11) Brandon Flowers – Can’t Deny My Love With the Killers on hiatus following their 2013 Direct Hits compilation, frontman Brandon Flowers has returned to his solo career with the follow-up to his 2010 solo debut, Flamingo .
(12) An aged male roseate flamingo, in a private collection in the British Virgin Islands, was found acutely "down."
(13) Hosts of brightly plumed birds – "flamingos and frigate-birds, falcons and deep-water albatross" – have flocked into the town, and when the narrator leans against a pillar box, trying to straighten his flying suit, an eagle "guarding these never-to-be-collected letters snaps at my hands, as if she has forgotten who I am and is curious to inspect this solitary pilot who has casually stepped off the wind into these deserted streets".
(14) The Water's Edge restaurant has fab views of the Caribbean flamingos, but you can also just grab a bacon butty at one of the snack kiosks dotted about.
(15) No mirage, this really is a desert oasis with warm springs irrigating lawns occasionally dotted with pink plastic flamingoes.
(16) Trace elements (Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, Se, Zn) were measured in nine organs (liver, kidney, breast muscle, lungs, breastbone, stomach, gizzard, spleen, feathers) of several specimens of Greater Flamingos (Phaenicopterus ruber (Pallas] and Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta (L.] from the Camargue, in the Rhône river delta.
(17) After four days of supportive therapy, the flamingo succumbed.
(18) A comparison with tandemly repeated DNA sequences in other avian species showed that several of these conserved elements were also present at similar locations within the 184-bp repeat of the Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), suggesting a great antiquity of the repeat.
(19) The impressive bird garden has an important collection of rare and endangered species as well as the more familiar flamingos and snowy owls.
(20) Nearest airport: Lisbon (120km) What to do Take a boat trip around the Sado Estuary nature reserve to spot bottlenose dolphins, flocks of white storks and, in winter, pink flamingos ( nautur.com ).
Pelican
Definition:
(n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.
(n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
(2) At its peak, the 2011 hunger strike, also led by Pelican Bay inmates, drew about 12,000 inmates in about 11 jails.
(3) At Pelican Island, a 2.5 mile strip in the Barataria Bay, crews used 2.5m cubic yards of sand and silt mined from the Gulf of Mexico to build dunes and marshes, and rolled out protective fences around newly planted grasses.
(4) Nearby are two wildlife refuges where flamingos and pelican nest.
(5) The media were not granted access to striking inmates but several in Pelican Bay wrote to the Guardian.
(6) Twenty-five-year old Elf Lyons, whose new show, Pelican, tackles the complex, combative relationship between mothers and daughters, agrees, adding that what we are seeing is the rise of a generation of standup lovers who want to see their own lives reflected on stage.
(7) One of the strike's organizers, Todd Ashker , who has been locked in a cell in the Pelican Bay SHU since 1990, declared at the outset that "this time there's a core group of us committed to taking this all the way to the death if necessary".
(8) Noel plummeted all the way to No 6, where he was picked up by the New Orleans Pelicans – who sadly robbed us of a classic tongue-twister, "New Orleans' Nerlens Noel", by trading him to the Philadelphia 76ers.
(9) It had to be reassuring for the Pelicans, having lost franchise center Anthony Davis for the time being, that Holiday, whom they acquired from the asset-shedding Philadelphia 76ers during the offseason, was able to step up in his absence.
(10) Inexpensive Penguins provided a crash course in world literature and the publisher's Pelicans told you everything you might need to know about history, politics, sociology and film.
(11) It's home to pelicans, cormorants, herons and dozens of other bird species, along with the carp, trout and eel that end up on the area's dinner plates.
(12) Anne Weills, a civil rights attorney who this week visited Pelican Bay state prison , which is at the heart of the protest, said the temperature at the prison had been deliberately lowered.
(13) It also serves pizza – for me, another very good thing about the Pelican.
(14) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(15) The NWF report also says the eggs of many animals – from trout in the Gulf to pelicans nesting as far away as Minnesota – have been found to contain oil and the dispersant used by BP in the wake of the spill.
(16) Shells of brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) eggs collected in South Carolina from 1969 through 1973 were significantly thinner than shells of those collected before 1947.
(17) Total organochlorine residues were apparently magnified 23 times from fish to pelican eggs, but interpretation of biomagnification was complicated by the migratory habits of both the pelicans and their chief prey fish.
(18) The media have not been granted access to striking inmates but eight in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay state prison, an isolated, windswept facility outside Crescent City, and the protest's epicentre, have written to the Guardian shedding light on their motivations and states of mind.
(19) 14 Pan De Azúcar Lodge, Chañaral This campsite in the Pan de Azúcar national park looks directly on to the island home of about 2,000 Humboldt penguins, plus marine otters, sea lions and pelicans.
(20) Western Conference LaMarcus Aldridge, Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers); DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings); James Harden, Dwight Howard (Houston Rockets); Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks), Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs); Mike Conley (Memphis Grizzlies); Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans): Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors).