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Dave Schoettinger
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The author describes the wealth and variety of avian life around the Gulf in the mid-19th century, including this ode to one of the species:
What a wondrous bird is the pelican,
His bill holds more fish than his belican,
He crams into his beak
enough food for a week,
But I'll be damned if I know how the helican.
— Feb 15, 2026 10:02AM
What a wondrous bird is the pelican,
His bill holds more fish than his belican,
He crams into his beak
enough food for a week,
But I'll be damned if I know how the helican.
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Dave Schoettinger
is on page 62 of 608
This book was published in 2017 so the author could not have known that the name of the body of water off the west coast of Florida would become a political litmus test. The author does relate that the name by which it was known prior to last year was bestowed upon it by European cartographers in the mid-16th century. Nothing lasts forever.
— Feb 04, 2026 01:45PM
