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Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds.
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* ''' Stork; Pelican:''' Two insurance companies in Dublin
  
A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak.
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* '''stork:''' the bird, a symbol of childbirth
  
'The Stork and Pelican' could also be the name of a public house.
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* '''pelican:''' the bird, a symbol of self-sacrifice. The pelican was thought to be particularly attentive to her young, to the point of providing her own blood by wounding her own breast when no other food was available. As a result, the pelican came to symbolise of the Passion of Jesus and of the Eucharist.
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* '''Pelican:''' river in the northern United States
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* '''The Stork and Pelican''' could also be the name of a public house. Both names alone have been used for pubs.
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[[Category:rivers]]
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[[Category:birds]]

Latest revision as of 10:37, 20 July 2016

  • Stork; Pelican: Two insurance companies in Dublin
  • stork: the bird, a symbol of childbirth
  • pelican: the bird, a symbol of self-sacrifice. The pelican was thought to be particularly attentive to her young, to the point of providing her own blood by wounding her own breast when no other food was available. As a result, the pelican came to symbolise of the Passion of Jesus and of the Eucharist.
  • Pelican: river in the northern United States
  • The Stork and Pelican could also be the name of a public house. Both names alone have been used for pubs.