Editing Pelican (section)

==== List of living species ====
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! style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3a4;" colspan="4"|Living species of ''Pelecanus''
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! style="width:18%;"|Common and binomial names<ref name="zoonomen">{{cite web | url =http://www.zoonomen.net/avtax/pele.html |title = Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Pelecaniformes (Version 2.003) |date =14 December 2011|publisher = zoonomen.net |access-date=21 May 2012 }}</ref>
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|[[American white pelican]]<br />''Pelecanus erythrorhynchos''<br />Gmelin, 1789
|[[File:Mikebaird - American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ) (bird) in Mo (by).jpg|185px|center|alt=American white pelican]]
|Length {{convert|1.3|–|1.8|m|ft|sigfig=2|abbr=on}}, wingspan {{convert|2.44|–|2.9|m|ft|abbr=on}}, weight {{convert|5|–|9|kg|lb|sigfig=1|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Nellis01">{{cite book| last = Nellis| first = David W.| title = Common Coastal Birds of Florida & the Caribbean| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-REZ4R8wBg4C| access-date = 29 June 2012| year = 2001| publisher = Pineapple Press| location = Sarasota, Florida| isbn = 1-56164-191-X| page = 11 }}</ref> Plumage almost entirely white, except for black primary and secondary [[Flight feather#Remiges|remiges]] only visible in flight.
|[[Monotypic taxon|Monotypic]]. Breeds in inland Canada and United States, wintering in southern United States, Mexico and Central America.<ref name="iucnerythrorhynchos"/><ref>Elliott (1992), p. 310</ref> Status: least concern.<ref name="iucnerythrorhynchos">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Pelecanus erythrorhynchos'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22697611A93624242 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697611A93624242.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Brown pelican]]<br />''Pelecanus occidentalis''<br />Linnaeus, 1766
|[[File:Pelecanus Occidentalis KW 1.JPG|185px|center|alt=Brown pelican]]
|Length up to {{convert|1.4|m|ft|abbr=on}}, wingspan {{convert|2|–|2.3|m|ft|abbr=on}}, weight {{convert|3.6|–|4.5|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fws.gov/contaminants/pdf/brown_pelicanfactsheet09.pdf |title=Brown Pelican |access-date=9 June 2012 |work=Endangered Species Program information sheet |publisher=US Fish & Wildlife Service |date=November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111133115/http://www.fws.gov/contaminants/pdf/brown_pelicanfactsheet09.pdf |archive-date=11 November 2012 }}</ref> Smallest pelican; distinguished by brown plumage; feeds by plunge-diving.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ridgely, Robert S. |author2=Gwynne, John A. | title = A Guide to the Birds of Panama: With Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=H9INVOMUgOAC| access-date = 29 June 2012| year = 1992| publisher = Princeton University Press| location = Princeton, New Jersey| isbn = 0691025126| page = 63 }}</ref>
|Five subspecies. Coastal distribution ranging from North America and the Caribbean to northern South America and the Galapagos.<ref name=sibleymonroe/> Status: least concern.<ref name="iucnoccidentalis">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=''Pelecanus occidentalis'' |volume=2018 |page=e.T22733989A132663224 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22733989A132663224.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Peruvian pelican]]<br />''Pelecanus thagus''<br />Molina, 1782
|[[File:Pelícano en Pucusana.JPG|185px|center|alt=Peruvian pelican]]
|Length up to {{convert|1.52|m|ft|abbr=on}}, wingspan {{convert|2.48|m|ft|abbr=on}},<ref>{{cite book| author = Chester, Sharon R.| title = A Wildlife Guide to Chile: Continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernández Archipelago| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qrI5ph6BWiIC| access-date = 29 June 2012| year = 2008| publisher = Princeton University Press| location = Princeton, New Jersey| isbn = 978-0691129761| pages = 174–75 }}</ref> average weight {{convert|7|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://mundoazul.org/habitats-species/marine-birds/peruvian-pelican-pelecanus-thagus/ |title= Peruvian Pelican |access-date= 9 June 2012 |first= Stefan |last= Austermühle |publisher= Mundo Azul |date= 17 October 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120604234020/http://mundoazul.org/habitats-species/marine-birds/peruvian-pelican-pelecanus-thagus/ |archive-date= 4 June 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref> Dark with a white stripe from the crown down the sides of the neck.
|Monotypic. Pacific Coast of South America from Ecuador and Peru south through to southern Chile.<ref name="sibleymonroe">{{cite book|author1=Sibley, Charles Gald |author2=Monroe, Burt Leavelle | title = Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk-vyrNVAccC| access-date = 29 June 2012| year = 1990| publisher = Yale University Press| isbn = 0300049692| pages = 314–15}}</ref> Status: near threatened.<ref name="iucnthagus">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=''Pelecanus thagus'' |volume=2018 |page=e.T22697619A132596827 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22697619A132596827.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Great white pelican]]<br />''Pelecanus onocrotalus''<br />[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]
|[[File:Whitepelican edit shadowlift edit.jpg|185px|center|alt=Great white pelican]]
|Length {{convert|1.40|–|1.75|m|ft|abbr=on}}, wingspan {{convert|2.45|–|2.95|m|ft|abbr=on}}, weight {{convert|10|–|11|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref name="BWP">{{cite book|editor1=Snow, David |editor2=Perrins, Christopher M | title = The Birds of the Western Palearctic concise edition (2 volumes)| year = 1998| publisher = Oxford University Press| location = Oxford, United Kingdom| isbn = 0-19-854099-X| pages = 93–98 }}</ref><ref name="Mullarney ">{{cite book| last = Mullarney| first = Killian| author2 = Svensson, Lars| author3 = Zetterström, Dan| author4 = Grant, Peter| title = Collins Bird Guide| year = 1999| publisher = Collins| isbn = 0-00-219728-6| page = 76 | title-link = Collins Bird Guide}}</ref> Plumage white, with pink facial patch and legs.
|Monotypic. Patchy distribution from eastern Mediterranean east to Indochina and Malay Peninsula, and south to South Africa.<ref name=sibleymonroe/> Status: least concern.<ref name="iucnonocrot">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=''Pelecanus onocrotalus'' |volume=2018 |page=e.T22697590A132595920 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22697590A132595920.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Australian pelican]]<br />''Pelecanus conspicillatus''<br />Temminck, 1824
|[[File:Pelecanus conspicillatus -Australia -8.jpg|185px|center|alt=Australian pelican]]
|Length {{convert|1.60|–|1.90|m|ft|abbr=on}}, wingspan {{convert|2.3|–|2.5|m|ft|abbr=on}}, weight {{convert|4|–|8.2|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://australian-animals.net/pelican.htm|title=Australian Pelican |date=January 2000 |access-date=10 June 2012|publisher=Unique Australian Animals}}</ref> Predominantly white with black along primaries and very large, pale pink bill.
|Monotypic. Australia and New Guinea; vagrant to New Zealand, Solomons, Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji and [[Wallacea]].<ref name=sibleymonroe/> Status: least concern.<ref name="iucnconspic">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Pelecanus conspicillatus'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22697608A93623945 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697608A93623945.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Pink-backed pelican]]<br />''Pelecanus rufescens''<br />Gmelin, 1789
|[[File:Pink-backed Pelican - Naivasha - Kenya 50276 (15205474549).jpg|185px|center|alt=Pink-backed pelican]]
|Length {{convert|1.25|–|1.32|m|ft|abbr=on}}, wingspan {{convert|2.65|–|2.9|m|ft|abbr=on}},<ref name="beaman"/> weight {{convert|3.9|–|7|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref>Elliott (1992), p. 309</ref> Grey and white plumage, occasionally pinkish on the back, with a yellow upper mandible and grey pouch.<ref name="beaman"/>
|Monotypic. Africa, Seychelles and southwestern Arabia;<ref name=sibleymonroe/> extinct in Madagascar.<ref>{{cite book| last = Langrand| first = Olivier| title = Guide to the Birds of Madagascar| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VYVqhOqS2WEC| access-date = 29 June 2012| year = 1990| publisher = Yale University Press| location = New Haven, Connecticut| isbn = 0300043104| page = 96}}</ref> Status: least concern.<ref name="iucnrufescens">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=''Pelecanus rufescens'' |volume=2017 |page=e.T22697595A111822418 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22697595A111822418.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Dalmatian pelican]]<br />''Pelecanus crispus''<br />[[Carl Friedrich Bruch|Bruch]], 1832<ref name=":152">{{Cite journal |last=Bruch |first=Carl Friedrich |date=1832 |title=Ornithologische Mittheilungen |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26455468 |journal=Isis von Oken |volume=10 |pages=1105–1111}}</ref>
|[[File:Pelecanus crispus at Beijing Zoo crop.JPG|185px|center|alt=Dalmatian pelican]]
|Length {{convert|1.60|–|1.80|m|ft|abbr=on}}, wingspan {{convert|2.70|–|3.20|m|ft|abbr=on}}, weight {{convert|10|–|12|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref name=BWP/><ref name= Mullarney/> Largest pelican; differs from great white pelican in having curly nape feathers, grey legs and greyish-white plumage.<ref name="beaman">{{cite book|author1=Beaman, Mark |author2=Madge, Steve | title = The Handbook of Bird Identification: For Europe and the Western Palearctic| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=M_RpY0i2blYC| access-date = 29 June 2012| year = 2010| publisher = A&C Black| location = London, United Kingdom| isbn = 978-1408134948| pages = 83–85 }}</ref>
|Monotypic. South-eastern Europe to India and China.<ref name=sibleymonroe/> Status: near threatened.<ref name=iucncrispus/>
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|[[Spot-billed pelican]]<br />''Pelecanus philippensis''<br />Gmelin, 1789
|[[File:Pelecanus Philippensis.JPG|185px|center|alt=Spot-billed pelican]]
|Length {{convert|1.27|–|1.52|m|ft|abbr=on}}, wingspan {{convert|2.5|m|ft|abbr=on}}, weight c. {{convert|5|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref name="brazil09">{{cite book| author = Brazil, Mark| title = Birds of East Asia| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7-GgBoivL70C| access-date = 29 June 2012| year = 2009| publisher = A&C Black| location = London, United Kingdom| isbn = 978-0713670400| page = 110}}</ref> Mainly grey-white all over, with a grey hindneck crest in breeding season, pinkish rump and spotted bill pouch.<ref name=brazil09/>
|Monotypic. Southern Asia from southern Pakistan across India east to Indonesia;<ref name=sibleymonroe/> extinct in the Philippines and possibly eastern China.<ref name=brazil09/> Status: near threatened.<ref name=iucnphillippenis/>
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