Animals / Bird

Brown pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis · Pelecanidae

The brown pelican is a bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae, one of three species found in the Americas and one of two that feed by diving into water. It is found on the Atlantic Coast from New Jersey to the mouth of the Amazon River, and along the Pacific Coast from British Columbia to Peru, including the Galapagos Islands. The nominate subspecies in its breeding plumage has a white head with a yellowish wash on the crown.

Where the Brown pelican lives

Recorded in United States of America, Mexico, Costa Rica and Ecuador (North America and South America).

Most records fall in California, Florida, Texas, Baja California Sur, Quintana Roo and Jalisco.

See the Brown pelican’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 2,918,863 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.