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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pelecanus occidentalis

Brown Pelican

WoRMS 343935ITIS 174685key itis:174685
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2026-08-05: worms_id 343935 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pelecanus occidentalis
Brown Pelican1.1 m
a person1.7 m

max · sealifebase

Photograph of Pelecanus occidentalis
Photo · Jay Pruett · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The brown pelican is a bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae, one of three species found in the Americas and one of two that feed by diving into water.W CalCOFI holds 2,057 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R

2,057
observations
2,057
records
2,057
sampling events
1987–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Seabirds & Marine Mammals 2,057 obs · 2,057 events · 1987–2022
    name used: Pelecanus occidentalis Brown Pelican · code BRPE

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:174685%22