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SpeciesPelecaniformesPelecanidae
Birds

🦩Australian Pelican

Pelecanus conspicillatus Temminck, 1824

Australsk pelikan (latin: Pelecanus conspicillatus) er en pelikan, som er vidtspredt i det indre Australien og langs kysterne. Den findes også i New Guinea, Fiji, dele af Indonesien og som strejffugl i New Zealand. Den er hvid med sorte vinger og et lyserødt næb. Den har det længste næb af alle nulevende fugle. Den spiser fortrinsvis fisk, men spiser også andre fugle eller ådsler, hvis den får muligheden.

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≈ 1/11th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
5.5 kg
Body length
1.83 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Australian Pelican

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.5 kgrecord 6.8 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 5.45 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.83 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.15 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.6 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.41 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.11 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
26 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
5.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Australian Pelican yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyPelecanidae
  6. ›genusPelecanus
  7. ›speciesPelecanus conspicillatus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyPelecanidae
  4. genusPelecanus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyPelecanidae
  11. genusPelecanus
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pelicà australià (ca), pelikán australský (cs), Australsk Pelikan (da), Brillenpelikan (de), Pelecanus conspicillatus (es), australianpelikaani (fi) … and 25 more languages
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