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Pelicans are large waterbirds with an immense bill and a skin pouch below it. The pouch works as a dip net to catch fish. It is not a larder. They live on every continent except Antarctica. Some fish in groups and drive the fish toward the shore. They fly with the neck folded back.
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Pelecanidae
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos · Least concern
The American white pelican is the only one of the eight pelican species to grow a 'horn' on its bill, which it sheds after mating and egg-laying. It has the second-largest wingspan of any North American bird, after the California condor. About 180,000 birds, 40% of the world population, fly to Canada each spring to breed.
Photo: Manjith Kainickara (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Pelecanidae
Pelecanus conspicillatus · Least concern
It holds the record for the longest bill of any living bird: up to 50 cm, pale pink, with a pouch that turns blue, pink and scarlet in the breeding season. Groups work together to drive fish into shallow water, then snatch them with their sensitive bills.
Photo: W. Bulach (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pelecanidae
Pelecanus occidentalis · Least concern
In 1903 Theodore Roosevelt created the first National Wildlife Refuge, Florida's Pelican Island, to protect the brown pelican from hunters. Later threatened by pesticides such as DDT, it was listed under the US Endangered Species Act from 1970 to 2009, and its population has since grown.
Photo: Alan D. Wilson, www.naturespicsonline.com (original photograph), Papa Lima Whiskey (image edit) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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