article_snippet.sent: Characterised by their long beak and large throat poach used for catching prey and draining water, pelicans are already aesthetically peculiar looking birds.
article_snippet.sent: But it turns out that watching one yawn is an even stranger visual experience, as an American man discovered after coming face-to-face with one of the birds.
article_snippet.sent: Capturing The slow motion footage in Santa Barbara, California, Scott Kaiser filmed the back of the large pelican sitting on a post overlooking the water.
article_snippet.sent: Recording the bird in slow motion, the video maker later noted that Pelican looked majestic, content and relaxed at this point in the clip.
article_snippet.sent: On display appears to be Pelican’s tongue and, quite bizarrely, some inner bill anatomy.
article_snippet.sent: video maker Scott Kaiser later commented on the experience, describing video maker Scott Kaiser as an amazing display of the length and strength of the pelican’s neck and bill.
article_snippet.sent: Pelicans are large water birds that have mainly light-coloured plumage
article_snippet.sent: – the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans.
article_snippet.sent: the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans travel in flocks and hunt cooperatively, feeding primarily on fish caught on or near the water surface.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scott Kaiser videoed the bird sitting on a post overlooking the water .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Pelican yawns exposing Pelican beak size, tongue and inner bill anatomy .