FODMer William Young has shared his video about the pelicans of the world at https://youtu.be/fD-4yZRPYn8.  One Dyke Marsh visitor saw an American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) around Dyke Marsh in July 2026 and many saw a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) on the Potomac River near National Airport and Hains Point in Washington, D.C. in 2019, according to Mr. Young.

Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis). Photo by William Young

We have some of his other bird videos posted on this website and the Northern Virginia Bird Alliance has a page with all of his videos about bird families at https://www.nvbirdalliance.org/bird-families-bill-young.