brown pelican

species of bird

Taxon Taxon Q208714

Facts

13 properties

Instance of: taxon
Short name: P. occidentalis^[6]
Diel cycle: diurnality
IUCN conservation status: least concern^[3]
Litter size: +2.4
Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology
Mass: +3.702, +3.174^[22]^[23]
Parent taxon: pelican^[4]
Taxon common name: Pelican brown America, Brown Pelican, Braunpelikan, Pelícano pardo, pelicà bru, pelikán hnědý, pruunpelikan, Brunpelikan, Американский бурый пеликан, カッショクペリカン, Brun Pelikan, ruskopelikaani, barna gödény, pelikan brunatny, pelikán hnedý, brun pelikan, Bruine Pelikaan, Pélican brun, Pellicano bruno, pelicano, rudasis pelikanas, brūnais pelikāns, кафеав пеликан, пелікан бурий, Peileacán donn, Pilikant gell, smeđi nesit, rjavi pelikan, pelicano-pardo^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]
Taxon name: Pelecanus occidentalis^[5]
Taxon range: Brazil, South America
Taxon rank: species^[2]
Wingspan: +215.5^[21]

🏷️ Also known as

en brown pelican en Pelecanus occidentalis ar بجعة بنية cs pelikán hnědý cs Pelecanus occidentalis da Brun Pelikan de Meerespelikan de Pelecanus occidentalis de Braunpelikan de Brauner Pelikan el Pelecanus occidentalis el Φαιός πελεκάνος es Pelicano pardo es Pelícano pardo fa پلیکان قهوه‌ای fi Pelecanus occidentalis fi ruskopelikaani fr Pelecanus occidentalis fr Pelican brun fr Pélican brun

🔖 Identifiers · 62

Library of Congress Authorities ID: sh85017254
GND ID: 4146495-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Brown Pelican21K.jpg ↗
ABA bird ID: bropel
ADW taxon ID: Pelecanus_occidentalis
All About Birds ID: Brown_Pelican
AnimalBase ID: 24332
Aves de Chile ID: 485
Avibase taxon ID: F59AB6B357BF97D8
BOLD Systems taxon ID: 10073
BioLib taxon ID: 21029
BirdLife taxon ID: 22733989

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CONABIO ID: 189958AVESB501112
CalPhotos taxon ID: Pelecanus+occidentalis
Catalogue of Life ID: 6TZ8G
DORIS ID: 992
Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID: 176953
E-Fauna BC species ID: Pelecanus occidentalis
EBiodiversity ID: 86868
EBird taxon ID: brnpel
EURING number: 910
Encyclopedia of Life ID: 45509060
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: animal/brown-pelican
Featherbase ID: species/pelecanus/occidentalis
Fossilworks taxon ID: 335294
Freebase ID: /m/01fd4b
GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update): 5229158
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID: brunpelikan
Guide to North American Birds ID: brown-pelican
Harper's tag: brown-pelican
IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code: BRPE
IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code: PELOCC
INaturalist taxon ID: 4328
IRMNG ID: 10195479
ITIS TSN: 174685
IUCN taxon ID: 22733989
Internet Bird Collection species ID: brown-pelican-pelecanus-occidentalis
J9U entity ID: 987007292434305171
John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID: brown-pelican-0, brown-pelican
KBpedia ID: BrownPelican
Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID: 979
NBIC scientific name ID: 175021
NCBI taxonomy ID: 37043
NatureServe Explorer ID: 2.817986
Neotropical Birds ID: brnpel
OBIS ID: 343935
Observation.org taxon ID: 73533
Oiseaux.net ID: pelican.brun
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 1212504
Open Tree of Life ID: 329999
Paleobiology Database taxon ID: 335294
ScienceDirect topic ID: agricultural-and-biological-sciences/brown-pelican
SeaLifeBase ID: 73582
TAXREF ID: 442189
Tierstimmenarchiv ID: 13047
Topic's main category: Category:Pelecanus occidentalis
Wiki Aves ID: pelicano-pardo
WoRMS-ID for taxa: 343935
Xeno-canto species ID: Pelecanus-occidentalis
Yale LUX ID: concept/eacc2201-87cb-4321-aff4-6fe53a03d2e1
ZOBODAT taxon ID: 174621
ZooBank ID for name or act: AD58E327-5AD1-4FD2-9530-24CEF34EC55A

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🔗 Connections

← Species kept 7

National Zoological Park, Los Angeles Zoo, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Houston Zoo, Belize Zoo, Fresno Chaffee Zoo, Baton Rouge Zoo

← Parent taxon 4

Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis, Pelecanus occidentalis murphyi, Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis urinator

Taxon range 2

Brazil, South America

← Official symbol 2

Louisiana, St. Petersburg

Diel cycle 1

diurnality

IUCN conservation status 1

least concern

Instance of 1

taxon

Parent taxon 1

pelican

Taxon rank 1

species

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Summary

brown pelican is a taxon^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ brown pelican — taxon rank (P105): species. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-09-19. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ brown pelican — IUCN conservation status (P141): least concern. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021.3. Retrieved 2021-12-27. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ brown pelican — parent taxon (P171): pelican. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-09-19. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ brown pelican — taxon name (P225): Pelecanus occidentalis. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-09-19. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ brown pelican — short name (P1813): P. occidentalis. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): Pelican brown America. Gwefan Llên Natur. Retrieved 2016-03-16. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): Brown Pelican. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-04. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): Braunpelikan. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-11. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): Pelícano pardo. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-12. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): pelicà bru. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-12. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): pelikán hnědý. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-13. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): pruunpelikan. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-13. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): Brunpelikan. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-13. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): Американский бурый пеликан. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-14. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): カッショクペリカン. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-14. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): Brun Pelikan. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-14. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): ruskopelikaani. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-15. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): barna gödény. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-15. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ brown pelican — taxon common name (P1843): pelikan brunatny. IOC World Bird List Version 6.3. Retrieved 2016-10-15. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ brown pelican — wingspan (P2050): 215.5 cm. Handbook of the Birds of the World. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ brown pelican — mass (P2067): 3.702 kg. Locomotor mechanisms of birds. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ brown pelican — mass (P2067): 3.174 kg. Locomotor mechanisms of birds. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ brown pelican is an instance of taxon (Q16521) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → brown-pelican

"Created claim: Harper's tag: brown-pelican, Matched to brown pelican (#289920437) in Harper's ta…"
24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Taxon range → Brazil, South America

Taxon rank → species

Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Invasion Biology

IUCN conservation status → least concern

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