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Check out what you have done! A book was published with reference and images from the PELIcams and would not have happened without your help! "Great Salt Lake Biology: A Terminal Lake in a Time of Change" Full text here. Thank you!!
Research
The PELIcams Hatch!
Gunnison Island, located in the remote northern part of Great Salt Lake in Utah is one of the world's largest breeding grounds for American White Pelicans. The pelicans trade food and freshwater for a safe place to rear their young. Pelicans are very susceptible to disturbance from humans and ground-based predators and recent low lake levels have exposed land bridges to this critical nesting ground.
The PELI Project (Project in Education and Longitudinal Investigation of American White Pelicans) began in 2017 to further understand pelicans nesting at Great Salt Lake and the effects of our changing environment on their life history. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Tracy Aviary, MesoWest at the University of Utah, and Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College combined forces to put 15 PELIcams on the pelican's secluded breeding grounds of Gunnison Island.
Help us analyze the multitude of pictures to document predators, extreme weather and rarely-observed nesting behaviors!
