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The American white pelican was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the other pelicans in the genus Pelecanus and coined the binomial name Pelecanus erythrorhynchos . [ 4 ]
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Deutsch: Adulter Nashornpelikan (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) im Schlichtkleid an den Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds, San Rafael, Marin County, Kalifornien. English: Adult American White Pelican ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ) in nonbreeding plumage at Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds, San Rafael, Marin County, California.
American white pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos; Great white pelican, Pelecanus onocrotalus; Other. White Pelican Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada
Historically American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) nested on Eagle Lake. They suffered from hunting by locals who mistakenly thought the pelicans ate the native trout and stopped nesting completely after 1932, when water was exported for agricultural irrigation and lowered the lake level by 10 feet (3 m), changing their nesting ...
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 erythrorhynchos).
The Pelecaniformes / p ɛ l ɪ ˈ k æ n ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are an order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide. As traditionally—but erroneously—defined, they encompass all birds that have feet with all four toes webbed.
Brown pelican. Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Pelecanidae. Pelicans are very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under their beak. Like other birds in the order Pelecaniformes, they have four webbed toes. American white pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos LC; Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis LC