Pelicans

Great White Pelican

Pelecanus onocrotalus

The Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) is a 9.3 kg wetland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.

Family

Pelicans

Order

Pelecaniformes

Weight

9.3 kg

Habitat

Wetland

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Partial migrant

Countries recorded

45

Recorded in Israel, South Africa, India, Kenya, Namibia, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Netherlands, Tanzania, Bulgaria, Senegal, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Uganda, Gambia, Botswana, Egypt, Zambia, Russia, Mozambique, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Moldova, Iran, Belgium, Mauritania, France, Zimbabwe, Germany, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, United Arab Emirates, United States, Lebanon, Palestine, Angola, Denmark, Poland, North Macedonia, Italy, Spain, China, Albania, Japan.

Where to see it: Parc National di Banc d'Arguin (Mauritania); Gabal el Zayt (Egypt); Atanasovsko Lake · Migration Observation Point (Tochkata) (Bulgaria); Lake Sorbulaq · Southern Shore; (IBA KZ097) (Kazakhstan); Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Romania).

Photo: (c) Kostas Zontanos, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Kostas Zontanos via iNaturalist