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Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis Scientific name definitions

Mark Shields
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated July 15, 2014

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Distribution of the Brown Pelican - Range Map
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Distribution of the Brown Pelican

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Shields, M. (2020). Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.brnpel.01
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