brown pelican fact sheet

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brown pelican fact sheet
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A group of brown belicans landing on the beach
Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge
America’s first National Wildlife Refuge is located near the Atlantic coastal community of Sebastian, Florida. A little island in the Indian River Lagoon, a dot on the map really, but with a very large international footprint. Pelican Island, and its surrounding 5400+ acres of protected waters and...
National Wildlife Refuge
Vero Beach, FL
Species
A large brown pelican in flight

The adult brown pelican is a large dark gray-brown water bird with white about the head and neck. Immatures are gray-brown above and on the neck, with white underparts. Although the Caribbean subspecies resembles the eastern subspecies, the Caribbean brown pelican has a darker non-breeding...

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Animalia
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Species