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    Pelican (redirect from Pelecanus)
    Pelecanus cautleyi, Davies, 1880 (Early Pliocene, Siwalik Hills, India) Pelecanus fraasi, Lydekker, 1891 (Middle Miocene, Bavaria, Germany) Pelecanus...
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    it was given the binomial name of Pelecanus occidentalis. It belongs to the New World clade of the genus Pelecanus. Five subspecies of the brown pelican...
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    The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is the largest member of the pelican family, and perhaps the world's largest freshwater bird, although rivaled...
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    The great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) also known as the eastern white pelican, rosy pelican or simply white pelican is a bird in the pelican...
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    He placed it with the other pelicans in the genus Pelecanus and coined the binomial name Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. Gmelin based his description on the...
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    The Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is a large waterbird in the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia...
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    Pelecanus paranensis is a fossil pelican from the Upper Miocene of the Paraná Formation, in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. It is the first fossil pelican...
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    He placed it with the other pelicans in the genus Pelecanus and coined the binomial name Pelecanus philippensis. Gmelin based his description on "Le pélican...
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  • Milne-Edwards, 1863 Species: †M. gracilis Binomial name †Miopelecanus gracilis (Milne-Edwards, 1863) Synonyms Pelecanus gracilis Milne-Edwards, 1863...
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    He placed it with the other pelicans in the genus Pelecanus and coined the binomial name Pelecanus rufescens. Gmelin based his description on the "red-backed...
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    Peru Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pelecanus thagus. BirdLife International (2018). "Pelecanus thagus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species...
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  • Pelecanus schreiberi is a fossil pelican described by Storrs Olson from Early Pliocene (5.3 to 3.6 million year old) deposits in the Yorktown Formation...
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    Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it in the genus Pelecanus and coined the binomial name Pelecanus minor. Gmelin based his description on the "lesser...
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  • Pelecanus odessanus is a large species of fossil pelican, described in 1886 from Late Miocene fossil material since lost, from Novaja Slobodka, near Odesa...
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  • Pelecanus halieus is a small fossil pelican described by Alexander Wetmore from material found in Late Pliocene deposits at Hagerman, Idaho. Wetmore,...
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    Pelicans (family: Pelecanidae · genus: Pelecanus)...
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    pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) 3 Southern royal albatross Diomedea epomophora 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in) 3 Dalmatian pelican Pelecanus crispus...
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    three genera: the extinct Eopelecanus and Miopelecanus and the extant Pelecanus. Pelecanids have existed since the late Eocene (Priabonian) and they still...
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  • Pelecanus cadimurka is a fossil pelican from the Late Pliocene Kanunka fauna of the upper Tirari Formation, in the Lake Eyre basin of north-eastern South...
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  • Pelecanus tirarensis is a fossil pelican described from several fragmentary tarsometatarsi from Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene deposits in the Namba...
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    hectares. It is an important breeding site for spot-billed pelicans (Pelecanus philippensis). Nelapattu has two major plant communities, Barringtonia...
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    twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae. He gave it the binomial name Pelecanus sula and described it based on a specimen from Barbados. The present genus...
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    including the painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala), spot-billed pelican (Pelecanus philippensis), and black-headed ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus). It...
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    cygnus 11.4 (25) 15.5 (32) 140 - 165 (4.5 - 5.4) Yes 18 Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus 11.5 (25) 15 (33.1)[citation needed] 183 (6)[citation needed]...
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    Alaskan troodontid, Erliansaurus, Rhea americana, Passer domesticus, Pelecanus onocrotalus Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
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    Limosa limosa Chaetornis striata Catreus wallichii Aegypius monachus Pelecanus crispus Neophron percnopterus Numenius arquata Falco peregrinus peregrinus...
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    Pelicans (family: Pelecanidae · genus: Pelecanus)...
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    Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), Tortuga Bay...
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    Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Suliformes Family: Sulidae Genus: Sula Brisson, 1760 Type species Pelecanus leucogaster Boddaert, 1783...
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    the mean weight of the turkey, including the American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos), the tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus columbianus) and...
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