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SpeciesPelecaniformesPelecanidae
Birds

🦩Great White Pelican

Pelecanus onocrotalus Linnaeus, 1758

モモイロペリカン (Pelecanus onocrotalus) は、鳥綱ペリカン目ペリカン科ペリカン属に分類される鳥類。 名前の由来は、繁殖期に体色が桃色になることより。通常はほぼ白色である。英語では White pelican という。

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
9.32 kg
Body length
1.75 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
51 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great White Pelican

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

Body mass
9.32 kgrecord 9 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
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Record: largest individual on record

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

By sex

  • Female7.59 kgWikidataQ199427
  • Male11 kgWikidataQ199427

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
51 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
9.3 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 Great White 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 onocrotalus
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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Closest relative on this site
🐧 Emperor penguin — last shared an ancestor ≈ 66 million years ago.
In other languages
Pélican blanc (fr), Roze pelikaan (nl), pelikan różowy (pl), שקנאי מצוי (he), Pelecanus onocrotalus (es), rózsás gödény (hu) … and 26 more languages
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