A fresh intact corpse of a Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis, March 26. Since it was found inland, not on the beach, this bird must have reached Sable alive, rather than having washed ashore after dying at sea. This species breeds on the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts from Georgia to Brazil. There is one previous record for Sable: “A bird sitting in a shallow pond on the beach on 26 June 1963 was approached very closely before it flew” (McLaren 1981). Tufts (1986) notes that almost all Nova Scotia occurrences have been in May-June.