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Definitions of pelican in various dictionaries:
noun - large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish
noun - a large, web-footed bird
PELICAN - Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used fo...
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| It can take a minute for the occidentalis or brown species of this bird to drain its pouch of water |
| It can weigh up to 33 pounds, its wingspan may reach 10 feet & it has a big pouch under its lower mandible |
| Teddy Roosevelt established a refuge in Florida to protect the nesting sites of the brown species of this water bird |
| Brown & white are the main U.S. types of this pouch-mouthed bird |
| He'll send you a large bill:CAP LINE |
| I'm P. onocrotalus, the white species of this big-throated bird; more fish, please! |
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| Any of various large, web-footed birds of the genus Pelecanus of tropical and warm regions, having a long straight bill from which hangs a distensible pouch of skin for catching and holding fish. |
| a large gregarious waterbird with a long bill, an extensible throat pouch for scooping up fish, and mainly white or grey plumage. |
| large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish |
| A large gregarious waterbird with a long bill, an extensible throat pouch for scooping up fish, and mainly white or grey plumage. |
| a large bird that catches fish and carries them in the lower part of its large, bag-shaped beak |
| a large, fish-eating bird with a long beak and a throat that is like a bag |
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| Pelican, West-Vlaanderen, BELGIUM |
| Pelican, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES |
| Pelican, ALASKA, UNITED STATES |
| Pelican, Queensland, AUSTRALIA |
| Pelican, TEXAS, UNITED STATES |
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Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. * Long thought to be related to frigatebirds, cormorants, tropicbirds, and gannets and boobies, pelicans instead are now known to be most closely related to the shoebill and hamerkop, and are placed in the order Pelecaniformes. Ibises, spoonbills, herons, and the desolate bitterns have been classified in the same order. Fossil evidence of peli |