John James Audubon would describe the pelican as "one of the most interesting of our American birds", waxing rhapsodic as he went on to describe the species' feeding habits in his journal:
Look at them as they fly over the bay; listen to the sound of the splash they make as they drive their open bills, like a pock-net, into the sea, to scoop up their prey; mark how they follow that shoal of porpoises, and snatch up the frightened fishes that strive to escape from them. Down they go, again and again. What voracious creatures they are!

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