Brown Pelican / Pelecanus occidentalis LC
- Old latin name for bird Pelecanus fuscus
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Where to see Brown Pelican
- 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Species Name in Other Languages
| Language | Translation |
|---|---|
| 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 | Bruna pelikano, Okcidenta pelikano |
| Estonian | pruunpelikan |
| Finnish | ruskopelikaani |
| French | Pélican brun, Pélican brun d'Amérique |
| Frisian | Brune pelikaan |
| Galician | Pelicano pardo |
| German | Meerespelikan, Braunpelikan |
| Greek | Κασταvoπελεκάvoς |
| Hebrew | שקנאים, שקנאי חום |
| 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 |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Brunpelikan |
| Polish | pelikan brunatny |
| Portuguese | pelicano-do-mar, pelicano-pardo, pelicano |
| Romanian | Pelican brun |
| Russian | Американский бурый пеликан, Бурый пеликан |
| Serbian | Američki smeđi nesit |
| Slovak | pelikán hnedý |
| Slovenian | Rjavi pelikan |
| Spanish | Pelícano, Alacatraz, Pelícano Café, Flamenco, Pélican, Pelícano pardo, Pelícano Alcatraz, Alcatraz, Pelicano pardo |
| Swedish | brun pelikan |
| Tatar | Америка соры бабакошы |
| Turkish | Kahverengi Pelikan |
| Ukrainian | пелікан бурий |
| Welsh | Pelican brown America |