That's what I tell the Grandies, the rhyme that is. When we see them in flight, we jokingly call them pterodactyls.
Once, while in Duck, NC, I was walking the beach after a day or two of heavy storms and winds. I walked up to the lee side of the Corp of Engineers pier and found the largest gathering of pelicans I've ever seen. There easily were a hundred or more. It looked like a Pennsylvania lake covered with Arctic geese or Tundra swans during migration. They looked like they were just hanging out and resting in the relative calm afforded by the pier.
