Pelican Island (Corpus Christi Bay)

Pelican Island is a semi-tropical island in the Corpus Christi Bay, situated immediately south of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel.^[1][2] It is one of the largest habitats of both brown pelicans and white pelicans in the Texas.^[3][4] In the late 1980s, Pelican Island was the only location in all of Texas where nesting brown pelicans could be found.^[5]