Brown Pelican / Pelecanus occidentalis
Brown Pelican bird information | Values |
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Conservation status | LC - Least concern |
Old latin name for bird | Pelecanus fuscus |
Order | Pelicans and relatives / Pelecaniformes |
Family | Pelicans / Pelecanidae |
Genus | Pelecanus |
Breeding region | Middle America, North America, South America |
Breeding subregion | coastal s California to Ecuador including Galápagos (e Pacific Ocean); Maryland through Caribbean (w North Atlantic Ocean) |
Non breeding region | n to sw coastal British Columbia, s to n Peru |
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Related species

Pink-backed Pelican

Dalmatian Pelican

Great White Pelican

Australian Pelican

Peruvian Pelican

Spot-billed Pelican

American White Pelican
Where to see Brown Pelican
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Brazil
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Montserrat
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- United States of America
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Brown Pelican subspecies (5)
Subspecies | Breeding subregion | Nonbreeding subregion | Extinct |
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Pelecanus occidentalis californicus | e North Pacific coasts from s California to c Baja California and Gulf of California to wc Mexico | - | No |
Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis | w North Atlantic coasts from Maryland (e USA) to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and coasts of Yucatan Pen. to Panama | - | No |
Pelecanus occidentalis murphyi | coastal islands off w Colombia and Ecuador | - | No |
Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis | coastal West Indies, Swan Is. (far e of Belize), San Andrés and Providencia (far e of Nicaragua) and islands off Caribbean n South America | - | No |
Pelecanus occidentalis urinator | Galápagos | - | No |
Translation
Language | Translation |
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Afrikaans | Bruinpelikaan |
Azerbaijani | Amerika qonur qutanı |
Bashkir | Америка һоро берғаҙаны |
Belarusian | Буры пелікан |
Bengali | ফাদাচভ গগণমফড় |
Breton | Pilikant gell |
Bulgarian | Кафяв пеликан |
Catalan | pelicà bru |
Chinese | 褐鹈鹕 |
Chinese (Traditional) | 褐鵜鶘 |
Chuvash | пăвăр пеликан |
Croatian | Američki smeđi nesit, smeđi nesit |
Czech | pelikán hnědý, Pelikán hnedý, pelikán hnìdý |
Danish | Brun Pelikan |
Dutch | Bruine Pelikaan |
Esperanto | Okcidenta pelikano, Bruna pelikano |
Estonian | pruunpelikan |
Finnish | ruskopelikaani |
French | Pélican brun, Pélican brun d'Amérique |
Frisian | Brune pelikaan |
Galician | Pelicano pardo |
German | Meerespelikan, Braunpelikan |
Greek | Κασταvoπελεκάvoς |
Hebrew | שקנאי חום, שקנאים |
Hungarian | barna gödény |
Icelandic | Brúnkani |
Irish | Peileacán donn |
Italian | Pellicano bruno |
Japanese | カッショクペリカン |
Kazakh | қоңыр бірқазан |
Latvian | brūnais pelikāns |
Lithuanian | rudasis pelikanas |
Mongolian | америкийн цагаан хотон |
Northern Sami | Ruškespelikána |
Norwegian | Brunpelikan, brunpelikan |
Norwegian Nynorsk | Brunpelikan |
Polish | pelikan brunatny |
Portuguese | pelicano-do-mar, pelicano, pelicano-pardo |
Romanian | Pelican brun |
Russian | Американский бурый пеликан, Бурый пеликан |
Serbian | Američki smeđi nesit |
Slovak | pelikán hnedý |
Slovenian | Rjavi pelikan |
Spanish | Alcatraz, Pelicano pardo, Pelícano pardo, Alacatraz, Flamenco, Pelícano Café, Pelícano, Pélican, Pelícano Alcatraz |
Swedish | brun pelikan |
Tatar | Америка соры бабакошы |
Turkish | Kahverengi Pelikan |
Ukrainian | пелікан бурий |
Welsh | Pelican brown America |