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Year-round. Nonbreeding. Synonyms. Pelecanus erythrorhynchus ( lapsus) The American white pelican ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a large aquatic soaring bird from the order Pelecaniformes. It breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts, as far as Costa Rica, in winter.
Great white pelican skimming the sea surface, in Namibia Two great white pelicans (left) and an American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) in St James's Park, London in St James' Park, London in Ethiopia. The great white pelican is a huge bird—only the Dalmatian pelican is, on average, larger among pelicans
About 14,000 pelicans, including 7500 American white pelicans, perished from botulism after eating fish from the Salton Sea in 1990. [5] In 1991, abnormal numbers of brown pelicans and Brandt's cormorants died at Santa Cruz, California, when their food fish (anchovies) were contaminated with neurotoxic domoic acid, produced by the diatom Pseudo ...
The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) is a species of bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae.It is found from the southern half of the US East Coast (from southern New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia), along the Gulf Coast states (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas) and south through most of the Caribbean coastal regions of Central America. [2]
Gunnison Island is located in the northwest quadrant of the Great Salt Lake in Box Elder County, Utah, United States , approximately 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Salt Lake City and about 6 miles (9.7 km) east from the lake's western shore, and is best known as an important rookery for the American white pelican ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchus ).
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... White pelican may refer to: Fauna. American white pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos; Great white pelican, ...
13∶20. Adopted. July 1, 1912. ( 1912-07-01) (modifications in 2006 and 2010) Design. A rectangular field of blue with the arms of Louisiana, the pelican vulning herself, in white in the center, with a ribbon beneath, also in white, containing in blue the state motto, "Union Justice Confidence". The flag of Louisiana consists of a rectangular ...
Roseate spoonbill. The roseate spoonbill ( Platalea ajaja) is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in both South and North America. The roseate spoonbill's pink color is diet-derived, consisting of the carotenoid pigment canthaxanthin, like the American flamingo .