A pelican crossing is a signal controlled crossing operated by pedestrians. |
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The lower jaw of this form may have been edentulous and supported a gular sac, like that of a giant pelican or baleen whale. |
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Two celery glasses made for them have the same pelican imagery engraved above a wide band of diamonds and diagonal blaze cuts. |
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The pelican is a symbol of self-sacrifice, and a Masonic symbol of resurrection! |
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Other ESA-listed birds that occur off northern Washington are the bald eagle, brown pelican, and snowy plover. |
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The elderly find it dangerous to cross the road at a pelican crossing or a zebra crossing because of speeding vehicles. |
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Residents believe a pelican crossing should replace a zebra crossing on that stretch of road. |
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Other birds include a huge American bald eagle called Liberty, buzzards, Harris hawks, vultures, laughing kookaburras and a pelican. |
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They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement. |
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The woman and her son were caught between the car and the traffic lights at the pelican crossing at the junction of the two roads. |
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I have, on one occasion, started to cross a pelican crossing and a car jumped the red lights and nearly hit me. |
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The white pelican of North America is a large, web-footed bird with an enormous throat pouch for scooping up fish. |
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It was also hazardous for pedestrians to cross Cemetery Road, and she suggested traffic lights and a pelican crossing were needed. |
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This act of self-vulning, in which the female pelican pecks blood from her chest to feed her young, symbolizes Christ feeding the faithful. |
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The brown pelican produces a relatively large chick at a relatively high cost compared to other, smaller altricial species. |
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When the grey pelican scooped up the group of goslings, two of them were caught by the huge bird. |
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A schoolboy was last night fighting for his life after a hit-and-run accident on a pelican crossing in Sheffield. |
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It's known, however, that species ranging from pelican to ducks and waders are caught for consumption. |
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She was knocked down by a car on a pelican crossing as she tried to cross the road on a Sunday evening after a meal at a pub. |
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To prevent similar fatalities in the future there should be a pelican crossing. |
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A public meeting called for a pelican crossing at the spot but the speed limit was reduced from 40 mph to 30 mph instead. |
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There is a sugar glider, an emu and a kangaroo, several koalas, snakes, geckos, frogs, and eagle, a wombat, a pelican, and many more as well. |
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The danger now is that we shall have signalised pelican crossings on Long Street, like the one outside Roses, bleeps and all. |
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Jackson managed to avoid them and continued towards the second pelican crossing, where a male pedestrian was halfway across. |
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A four-way pelican crossing is a possibility but it could cause problems with traffic backing-up during peak times. |
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It is hoped that safety at the existing pelican crossing can be improved as facilities are upgraded. |
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The older children are writing letters to the council to persuade them we need a pelican crossing. |
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Katie said she regularly crossed at the pelican crossing near the Odeon cinema where a black Fiat Punto struck her. |
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Speakers urged the county council to provide pedestrians with a bridge, an underpass or a pelican crossing to prevent another accident. |
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I think a pelican crossing on a dual carriageway would be extremely dangerous and a bridge would encourage youths to throw things at cars. |
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Among the nearly 200 species found here are thicket tinamou, brown pelican, osprey, king vulture, and laughing gull. |
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The tweezers are in the form of the beak of a pelican, the body of which opens to reveal a baby in swaddling clothes in the exposed recess. |
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A girl told today how a driver knocked her down and then stared coldly into her eyes as she lay on a pelican crossing. |
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But the fifth, known as Gargi, a South African pink-backed pelican, arrived at the park in mysterious circumstances. |
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Acceptance gaps can be created either by headways in a traffic stream or by traffic control devices such as traffic signals at junctions and pelican crossings. |
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On the way out, by the pelican crossing over Park Lane, a man with a white goatee and an American accent looked over with a smile. |
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Meanwhile, police are appealing for witnesses to an accident in which an elderly pedestrian was run over on a pelican crossing in Norton Avenue, Sheffield. |
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Legends abound in which the father pelican revives his deceased young by tearing open his heart and drenching them with his life's blood. |
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Very elegant and safe aft transoms with a double line of guardrails doted with pelican cleats. |
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A dragon and on its back a pelican vulning herself all Proper. |
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The pelican bobbed on the water ahead, a wet beak downturned and tucked in. |
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A brown pelican dived from the steel blue sky into the sea but came up empty. |
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Amongst the most interesting birds are the Dalmatian pelican, the lesser grey heron, the glossy ibis and the white spoon-bill. |
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The pelican breeding site will be rebuilt for greater sustainability in 2006 with the support of the Government of the Netherlands. |
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Drive through the fishing and pelican haven of San Remo and over the bridge to Phillip Island. |
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Among the native birds, the whidah, weaverbirds, pigeon, sunbird, cuckoo, swift, heron, stork, pelican, and cormorant are some, which you would come across. |
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Two Service airboats patrolled the sea all day, every day, to round up sick birds and ferry them back to the on-site pelican rehabilitation hospital. |
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In 2011 a Minnesota farmer smashed thousands of eggs and young chicks of the federally protected American white pelican. |
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Another idea is to move the pelican crossing outside the garage to the east of the entrance because it is seen as a hive of anti-social behaviour. |
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At pelican Bay, there are no windows, and there is no reason not to have windows. |
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John Grisham is the bestselling novelist of The Firm and The pelican Brief, among others. |
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A student who died when she was knocked down by a car on a York pelican crossing had dreamed of winning a Nobel Prize, her devastated sisters revealed today. |
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We fetched up in front of the hotel after a final death defying manoeuvre involving three lanes of traffic, a pelican crossing and one or two expendable pedestrians. |
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It also includes hatched markings around the Cross to prevent any stopping there at all, and moving the pelican crossing nearest the Cross further down the street. |
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The pelican consequently prepared to go to war against them by daubing himself with white clay as war paint. |
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In classical times, the word was applied to both the pelican and the woodpecker. |
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Watch the seasonal shark tagging or the daily pelican feeding on a cruise. |
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Finally we listened to speeches from Donnachadh, Steve and others including Nazan Fennell, the mother of 13 year old Hope, killed in Birmingham in 2011 by an HGV while using a pelican crossing. |
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Barbara is the leader of a gang of riled mothers who decided to take radical action after four young children were nearly maimed by riders shooting through a pelican crossing on Clapham Road in Stockwell, south London. |
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She did at least come with me as far as the pelican crossing. |
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Redpoll season arrives in the Northeast, and brown pelican nesting season commences along the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Avian malaria is carried by the mosquito Culex pipens, and high densities of these biting insects may force pelican colonies to be abandoned. |
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This has led to suggestions that pelican numbers should be controlled at vulnerable colonies. |
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Widespread across Australia, the Australian pelican has a population generally estimated at between 300,000 and 500,000 individuals. |
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As a result, the pelican came to symbolise the Passion of Jesus and the Eucharist, and usurped the image of the lamb and the flag. |
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The medical faculties of Charles University in Prague also have a pelican as their emblem. |
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The heraldic pelican also ended up as a pub name and image, though sometimes with the image of the ship Golden Hind. |
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The pelican is the subject of a popular limerick originally composed by Dixon Lanier Merritt in 1910 with several variations by other authors. |
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The pelican, formerly a black bird, made a canoe during a flood in order to save drowning people. |
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The Australian pelican has two reproductive strategies depending on the local degree of environmental predictability. |
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In the UK, the area in which pedestrians should cross at pelican crossings is marked out by a series of markers. |
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The size of the preferred prey fish varies depending on pelican species and location. |
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I can''t help feeling that the increasing prevalence of puffin crossings, rather than pelican crossings, is going to take us down the same route. |
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Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981, contains more than a million birds, including the African spoonbill, the purple heron, the white pelican, and the cormorant. |
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The great white pelican also belonged to this lineage but was the first to diverge from the common ancestor of the other four species. |
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I returned the following year with The pelican Brief, then The Client. |
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An origin myth from the Murri people of Queensland, cited by Andrew Lang, describes how the Australian pelican acquired its black and white plumage. |
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The lake supports threatened species of birds like spot billed pelican, lesser adjutant stork, greater adjutant stork, black necked stork and large whistling teal. |
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The brown pelican has a similarly extensive range of parasites. |
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The only other pelican to feed using a similar technique is the Peruvian pelican, but its dives are typically from a lower height than the brown pelican. |
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A study of the parasites of the American white pelican found 75 different species, including tapeworms, flukes, flies, fleas, ticks and nematodes. |
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The Dalmatian pelican is the rarest species with a population estimated at between 10,000 and 20,000 following massive declines in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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In 2004, a set of traffic lights was erected in the Condorrat Village neighbourhood, soon followed by pelican crossings beside the new Tesco Extra. |
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When fishing in groups, all pelican species have been known to work together to catch their prey, and Dalmantian pelicans may even cooperate with great cormorants. |
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The symbol of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service is a pelican, and for most of its existence the headquarters of the service was located at Pelican House in Dublin, Ireland. |
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Another tale features a pelican and a griffin debating church corruption, with the pelican taking a position of protest akin to John Wycliffe's ideas. |
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They include the white pelican, normally located in Romania, the isabelline wheatear, from Greece and the East, and the tawny pipit from Spain on Anglesey. |
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An older version of the myth is that the pelican used to kill its young then resurrect them with its blood, again analogous to the sacrifice of Jesus. |
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Specialist feather lice of the genus Piagetella are found in the pouches of all species of pelican, but are otherwise only known from New World and Antarctic cormorants. |
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Likewise, a folktale from India says that a pelican killed her young by rough treatment but was then so contrite that she resurrected them with her own blood. |
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