Pink-backed Pelican / Pelecanus rufescens LC
- Synonyms Grey Pelican, Gray Pelican, Pinkbacked Pelican
Pink-backed Pelicanbird sounds *
* All sounds were found via Xeno-canto.org API
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Where to see Pink-backed Pelican
- Breeding region Africa
- Breeding subregion inland se Egypt, w, sw Arabian Pen., and Africa s of the Sahara; formerly also Madagascar and St. Joseph's Atoll (Amirantes group, nc Seychelles)
- Angola
- Austria
- Benin
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Hungary
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Palestine, State of
- Portugal
- Rwanda
- Réunion
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Turkey
- Uganda
- United States of America
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Species Name in Other Languages
| Language | Translation |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Kleinpelikaan |
| Arabic | بجعة وردية الظهر |
| Azerbaijani | çəhrayıbel qutan |
| Bashkir | ал һыртлы берғаҙан |
| Basque | Pelicà rosat, Pelikano gorrizta |
| Belarusian | Ружаваспiнны пелiкан |
| Bengali | হগারাচচঠ গগণমফড় |
| Breton | Pilikant bihan |
| Bulgarian | Розовогръб пеликан, Малък пеликан |
| Catalan | pelicà rosat |
| Chinese | 粉红背鹈鹕 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 粉紅背鵜鶘 |
| Croatian | afrički nesit |
| Czech | pelikán africký |
| Danish | Rosapelikan |
| Dutch | Kleine Pelikaan |
| Esperanto | Rufa pelikano, Rozdorsa pelikano |
| Estonian | puispelikan |
| Finnish | afrikanpelikaani |
| French | Pélican à dos rosé, Pélican gris, Pélican roussâtre |
| Frisian | Lytse pelikaan |
| Galician | Pelicano rosado, Pelicano cincento, Pelicà rosat |
| German | Rotelpelikan, Rötelpelikan |
| Greek | Αφρικανικός Πελεκάνος, Αφρικαvικός πελεκάvoς |
| Hebrew | שקנאי קטן |
| Hungarian | vörhenyes gödény |
| Icelandic | Rauðkani |
| Irish | Peileacán bándearg |
| Italian | Pellicano rossiccio, Pellicano dorsorosa |
| Japanese | コシベニペリカン |
| Kazakh | қызғылт-қолдады бірқазан |
| Latvian | Āfrikas pelikāns |
| Lithuanian | Rusvasis pelikanas, rausvanugaris pelikanas |
| Luxembourgish | Afrikanesche Pelikan , Roudelzéche Pelikan |
| Macedonian | Африкански пеликан |
| Malagasy | Gisandrano |
| Mongolian | австрали хотон |
| Northern Sami | Afrihkápelikána |
| Norwegian | rosenpelikan |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Rosenpelikan |
| Polish | pelikan mały, pelikan maly |
| Portuguese | Pelicano-cinzento, Pelicano-rosado, Pelicano rosado, Pelicano-ruivo, pelicano-rosado |
| Romanian | Pelican cu spate roz |
| Romansh | pelican cotschnent |
| Russian | Розовоспинный пеликан, Рыжеватый Пеликан, Пеликан африканский, Африканский пеликан |
| Serbian | Afrički nesit |
| Slovak | pelikán červenkavý |
| Slovenian | črnooki pelikan |
| Spanish | Pelícano gris, Pelícano rosado |
| Swahili | Mwali, Mwari Mgongo-pinki |
| Swedish | rosaryggig pelikan, Rosaryggad pelikan, Afrikansk pelikan |
| Tsonga | Gumbula |
| Turkish | Küçük Pelikan |
| Ukrainian | пелікан африканський |
| Welsh | Pelican gwridog |
| Zulu | iFuba |