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PELICAN WEATHERVANE
Pelican Weather Vane Sitting
Sitting Pelican Weathervane Pricing
by West Coast Weather Vanes
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Soaring Pelican Weathervane
Pelican Weathervane, Landing
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Pelican Weathervane, Sitting
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Pelican Sitting with Waves Weathervane
Landing Pelican Weathervane detail
Landing Pelican Weathervane detail |
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This Pelican Weather Vane may be ordered in a variety of ways:
It can be made with or without a fish in its beak. The fish can be made with either gold-leafed, nickel silver, or copper depending on your preference. We have made the Pelican with blue eyes or with yellow eyes, depending on customer preference. Many of our customers ask us to add optional gold leaf to the Pelican’s beak and legs. This creates a nice contrast when the copper weathers and turns chocolate brown in color. Yet another option for the Sitting Pelican Weathervane is to make it with the optional waves. Personally, I like the optional waves as it creates a nice sense of balance between the vertical dimension and the horizontal dimension. We sometimes add optional gold leaf to the crests of the waves to create further visual interest.
Our standard Sitting Pelican weather vane is offered in four different sizes; one-foot, two-foot, three-foot, or even a four-foot sculpture piece, with a number of options in each size. Please give us a call for a personalized quote based on your own preferences. We can also make a specific type of Pelican such as a Great White Pelican, Australian Pelican or Spot-Billed Pelican depending on customer preference.
The Sitting Pelican weathervane was our first Pelican weathervane design. The Soaring Pelican is our most recent design. Click on the thumbnails on the right to view the fine texturing details on these Pelican weathervanes.
A pelican, derived from the Greek word πελεκυς pelekys (meaning “axe” and this term is applied to birds that cut wood with their bills or beaks), is a large water bird with a large throat pouch, belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae. Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigate birds, and tropicbirds, pelicans make up the order Pelecaniformes. Modern pelicans, of which there are eight species, are found on all continents except Antarctica. They primarily inhabit warm regions, though breeding ranges reach 45° south (Australian Pelican, P. conspicillatus) and 60° North (American White Pelicans, P. erythrorhynchos, in western Canada). Birds of inland and coastal waters, they are absent from polar regions, the deep ocean, oceanic islands, and inland South America.
The Brown Pelican occurs on coasts in the Americas from Washington and Virginia south to northern Peru and the mouth of the Amazon River, as well as along the west coast of the United States. Some immature birds may stray to inland freshwater lakes. After nesting, North American birds move in flocks further north along the coasts, returning to warmer waters for winter. Their young are hatched in broods of about 3, and eat around 150 lbs. of fish in the 8–10 month period they are cared for.
This bird is distinguished from the American White Pelican by its brown body and its habit of diving for fish from the air, as opposed to co-operative fishing from the surface. It eats mainly fish and amphibians as well as crustaceans. Groups of Brown Pelicans often travel in single file,
Above photos were sent to us by one of our customers showing their Medium size Pelican Landing that they installed on a 4x4 cupola.
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Click Sitting Pelican Weathervane Pricing for pricing information on this weather vane.
Click here if you need help determining the correct size weather vane for you situation.
Click here if you would like suggestions on various methods of installing a weathervane.
Click here (if applicable to this weathervane) to view our weathervane eye color selection chart.
Click here for more information on gold leafing a weather vane.
Click here for more information about how we can personalize a weathervane.
Ordering Information:
To place an order, please call us at (831) 425-5505.
At the time you call, we will provide you with an estimated completion date.
At the time the order is placed, a deposit of 1/3 is due. Upon receipt of the deposit, time will be reserved in our schedule. The balance is due when the weather vane has been completed and prior to shipping. Deposits can be made with Visa, MasterCard or check.
All West Coast Weather Vanes are custom made for the person who orders them.
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