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- The acquisition of the team's current name came along with the purchase of the franchise from the league by Tom Benson. Early on in the purchasing process, Benson made it clear that he intended to change the name to something more "local". Inspiration for the name change is given to Louisiana's state bird, the brown pelican.
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Apr 24, 2022 · It’s been almost a decade since the Pelicans changed their name, which is a sign of just how quickly time flies. Some might not even remember what the NBA franchise in New Orleans used to be...
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1970 - Pelican Island, the world's first national wildlife refuge, established in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt as a sanctuary for nesting birds, was designated as wilderness. 1980 - More than 18 million acres of wilderness was designated under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, mostly in Alaska refuges.
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The name "Pelicans" can be traced back in New Orleans to the 1865 founding of the New Orleans Pelicans, an amateur baseball team. In 1887, the team became a professional franchise when it joined the minor league Southern League which operated off and on until 1899.
The brown pelican ( Pelecanus occidentalis) is a bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae, one of three species found in the Americas and one of two that feed by diving into water.
Jul 17, 2023 · The restoration of three heavily eroded islands along Louisiana's coast is providing habitat for dwindling populations of brown pelicans and other colonial waterfowl -- a sign of hope for the...
Aug 23, 2018 · Their plan was to catch young pelicans in Florida before the birds were able to fly. They’d bring the pelicans back to Louisiana and release them on small islands off the coast, called rookeries.
On March 14, 1903, without fanfare, President Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing Pelican Island as a federal bird reservation - the forerunner to the national wildlife refuge system. This was the first time that the federal government set aside land for the sake of wildlife.
