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Few of our planet's residents have managed to adapt to their environmental niche as gracefully as the Brown Pelican. Imagine for a moment your typical river salmon, who spends their entire existence struggling against raging river currents, slowly hopping up rapids until they get eaten by a bear. Think of a seagull, now, or a crow. Surely you have been in a storm and seen the foolish foul flying straight into the wind, making either no progress or even getting blown backwards and landing with negative displacement from their starting point. Rather than fighting with the forces of nature as many animals do, the Brown Pelican has managed to develop ways of harnessing these dynamic forces of nature --that is, moving air and water, or "wind" and "waves"--in ways that actually make their lives easier.     One of the most fascinating ways that the species accomplishes this goal is by gliding just in front of ocean swells, such that they are being donated additional lift by updrafts that naturally occur in this region. The pelicans essentially "surf" waves by funneling, or "compressing" these updrafts between their wings and the water--a phenomenon known as "compression surfing." This goes hand in hand with the so-called "ground effect." Ground-effect refers to the observation that birds such as skimmers and pelicans are able to maintain gliding at a constant altitude for longer periods of time without additional energy input (through flapping) when near the water's surface than when farther away. My intention in writing this paper is to model a pelican "compression surfing" and make qualitative conclusions about "ground-effect." Ground effect in relation to compression surfing can be thought of as the work done (by updrafts associated with the frontside of moving ocean swells) in allowing a pelican to fly at a constant altitude without flapping.    An ancient creature, estimates have it that this majestic bird has been cruising the skies for at least thirty million years. Historical geologists would call this period of time the "Oligocene epoch" of the "Paleogene period," but to the rest of us these implications can be put in much simpler terms--Pelicans are dinosaurs! Perhaps it is to this that the Brown Pelican owes its aerial expertise. Thirty million years has allowed evolution to take its course, and over the generations the pelican has been able to develop the artform of "compression surfing."