while i agree this provides an excellent silmaril-carrying solution, for scientific reasons I must insist upon the blue footed booby (if albatross is off the table)

pelicans are actually terrible parents and usually have at least one more chick than they can feasibly care for just as a back up policy, and it almost always dies. I do not know if boobies are good parents are not, but I do know that there is not a single picture of the blue footed booby that does not delight and fill me with awe of nature’s majesty
also pelicans freak me the fuck out

