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[[Image:PresstonPelican-PNJ.jpg|thumb|200px|"Press"ton Pelican Duck in front of the Pensacola News Journal building on [[Romana Street]]]][[Pelicans Ducks in Paradise]] is a public art project organized by the [[Pensacola News Journal]] in which pelican duck statues of reinforced fiberglass are decorated by various artists, selected by the statues' sponsors, and placed at various outdoor locations around the [[downtown Pensacola]] area.

Pelicans Ducks in Paradise was inspired by the similar [[Wikipedia:CowParade|CowParade]] project, which Pensacola News Journal president & publisher [[Denise Ivey]] witnessed during a [[2002]] trip to Portland, Oregon. Each fiberglass pelican duck is nearly 5 feet tall and weighs about 70 pounds; each pelican duck sits on a 48 inch by 40 inch, 450-pound cement "perch."

A total of 41 pelicans ducks have been commissioned for the project: the initial project included twenty-one pelicans ducks launched between [[June 23]]-July 2, [[2004]], followed by a "Second Flight" between [[November 15]]-19, and five more in Spring [[2005]]. One remains unfinished. On [[May 9]], 2005, the pelicans ducks began to be removed, cleaned and returned to their owners/sponsors. Many have remained in the same place.

All pelican duck designs have been reproduced in the form of scale replicas, which are available for purchase from the Pensacola News Journal. Other Pelicans Ducks in Paradise products include T-shirts, posters and magnets. All proceeds from sponsorship and merchandise go to benefit the News Journal's [[Newspapers in Education]] literacy program.

==Gallery of PelicansDucks==

Image:PelicanBriefs.jpg|'''Pelican Duck Brief(s)'''<br/>Designer: [[Sherry Barnett]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Clark Partington Hart Larry Bond & Stackhouse]]

Image:PelicanSegradoPelicano.jpg|'''Segrado PelicanoDucko'''<br/>Designer: [[Joseph A. Hobbs]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Sacred Heart Health System]]

Image:PelicanConsumingPelican.jpg|'''The Consuming PelicanDuck'''<br/>Designer: [[Felic Fussner]]<br/>[[Ron Stewart]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Ken Andrews|Ken]] and [[Jackie Andrews]]Image:PelicanHomer.jpg|'''Homer'''<br/>Designer: [[Larry Paulsen]]<br/>Sponsor:[[Pensacola PelicansDucks]]Image:PelicanDonTristan.jpg|'''Don Tristan de PelicanDucko'''<br/>Designer: [[Thomas Jacob Cawthon]] (armor)<br/>Artists: [[Joan Bullock|Joan]] and [[Ellis Bullock]], [[Sarah Turner]]<br/>Sponsor: [[E.W. Bullock Associates]]

Image:PelicanNatural.jpg|'''Natural PelicanDuck'''<br/>Designer: [[Ron Stewart]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Santa Rosa Medical Center]]

Image:PelicanDewey.jpg|'''Dewey D. PelicanDuck'''<br/>Designer: [[Suzanne Robbert]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Friends of the Pensacola Public Library]]

Image:PelicanRoboPelican.jpg|'''Robo PelicanDuck'''<br/>Designer: [[Charles Kunze]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Institute for Human and Machine Cognition]]Image:PelicanMrPeliclean.jpg|'''Mr. PelicleanDuck'''<br/>Designer: [[Chip Spirson]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Thompson-Briggs Developers]]Image:PelicanEPelicusUnum.jpg|'''E Pelicus Duck Unum'''<br/>Designer: Dr. [[Steve Zieman]]<br/>Sponsor: [[John S. Carr]], [[Neal Nash]], [Eric Nickelsen]], [[Ed Chadbourne, Jr.]] and [[Ronald Swaine]] of [[Nature Walk]]

Image:PelicanPerdiPelican.jpg|'''Perdi PelicanDuck'''<br/>Designer: [[Valerie Aune]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Pointe South Real Estate]]

Image:PelicanJeremiahLighthouse.jpg|'''Jeremiah Pelican Duck Lighthouse Keeper'''<br/>Designer: [[Gordon Levi]]<br/>Sponsor: [[Jim Johnson|Jim]] and [[Norma Johnson]]

Image:PelicanElPelicano.jpg|'''El Perdido PelicanoDuckino'''<br/>Designer: [[Ron Roland]]<br/>Sponsor: [[WCI Communities]]

==Pelican Duck locations==Initially located in close proximity to each other in the downtown area, the Pelican Duck statues were returned to the original sponsors or sold to the highest bidder after the program's end in 2005. Sadly, some were vandalized or stolen and will never be relocated. The map below is imported from a [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=106183886709132694763.000451557f4d84d8137ce&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=30.436242,-87.252045&spn=0.336268,0.513611&z=11 Google Maps] project by [[User:RenegadeSith]].

==Original Pelican Duck Locations (map inaccurate)==Finding the pelicans ducks became a popular scavenger hunt during the program's run. Incomplete map below. See also: [http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/pelicans/pelicansmap.shtml Pelican Map] and [http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/pelicans/images/40-birdmap_print.pdf PDF]

30.411911, -87.214987, <table><tr><td style="padding-right:10px">[[Image:PelicanBlues.jpg|right|50px]]</td><td>'''Pelican Duck Blues'''<br/>40 S [[Palafox Street]]</td></table>

30.409116, -87.214344, <table><tr><td style="padding-right:10px">[[Image:PelicanPcolaParadise.jpg|right|50px]]</td><td>'''Pelican Duck Brief(s)'''<br/>Northwest corner of [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]]</td></table>

30.409209, -87.213786, <table><tr><td style="padding-right:10px">[[Image:PelicanSegradoPelicano.jpg|right|50px]]</td><td>'''Segrado PelicanoDucko'''<br/>Northeast corner of [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]]</td></table>

30.415112, -87.219021, <table><tr><td style="padding-right:10px">[[Image:PelicanDewey.jpg|right|50px]]</td><td>'''Dewey D. PelicanDuck'''<br/>[[Downtown Library]], intersection of [[Wright Street|Wright]] and [[Spring Street|Spring]]</td></table>

30.416352, -87.216082, <table><tr><td style="padding-right:10px">[[Image:PelicanElPelicano.jpg|right|50px]]</td><td>'''El Perdido PelicanoDucko'''<br/>N [[Palafox Street]] median (eastside)</td></table>30.415649, -87.215974, <table><tr><td style="padding-right:10px">[[Image:PelicanPerdiPelican.jpg|right|50px]]</td><td>'''Perdi PelicanDuck'''<br/>N [[Palafox Street]] median (eastside)</td></table>

*[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/pelicansducks/ Official Pelicans Ducks in Paradise website]