Australian Pelican

Pelecanus conspicillatus - Pélican à lunettes

Pélican à lunettes
Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Pelecaniformes

  • Family
    :

    Pélécanidés

  • Genus
    :

    Pelecanus

  • Species
    :

    conspicillatus

Descriptor

Temminck, 1824

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 188 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 230 à 260 cm.
  • Weight
    :
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Pélican à lunettes
adult
Pélican à lunettes

Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is a species of bird in the Pelecanidae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

  • Pélican à lunettes,
  • Pelícano australiano,
  • pelicano-australiano,
  • Brillenpelikan,
  • ausztrál pelikán,
  • Australische Pelikaan,
  • Pellicano australiano,
  • australisk pelikan,
  • Australpelikan,
  • pelikán okuliarnatý,
  • pelikán australský,
  • Australsk Pelikan,
  • australianpelikaani,
  • pelicà australià,
  • pelikan australijski,
  • Австралийский пеликан,
  • Undan kacamata,
  • コシグロペリカン,
  • 澳洲鹈鹕,
  • 澳洲鵜鶘,

Voice song and cries

Pélican à lunettes

Habitat

Pélican à lunettes
adult

Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands, Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha) ; Marine Neritic : Estuaries ; Marine Intertidal : Sandy Shoreline and/or Beaches, Sand Bars, Spits, Etc, Shingle and/or Pebble Shoreline and/or Beaches ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land ; Artificial/Aquatic and Marine : Water Storage Areas (over 8ha)

Geographic range

Distribution

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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published: - Updated: 31-08-2005
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