#1387 · 🐦 birds

Australian Pelican

🇳🇱 Australische Pelikaan ·Pelecanus conspicillatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The Australian pelican ( Pelecanus conspicillatus ) is a large waterbird of the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant in New Zealand. It is a predominantly white bird with black wings and a pink bill. It has been recorded as having the longest bill of any living bird. It mainly eats fish, but will also consume birds and scavenges for...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 26,778iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
26,778 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1824 (202 years ago).