Bird Bank

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, National Geographic

Thousands of brown pelicans find a safe place to nest on South Carolina s Deveaux Bank, one of the largest pelican rookeries on the Atlantic coast. The isolated, shape-shifting island is free of raccoons and other predators that eat eggs and chicks.

Vincent J. Musi recounts the humorous tale of a story eight years in the making on our Photography blog, Proof .