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Great White Pelican

Storks, Herons, Ibises & Pelicans

Photo: (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pelecanus onocrotalus

Basic stats

Diet

Vertebrates and carrion

Habitat

Swamps and shallow lakes

Size

140–180cm; wingspan 226–360cm

The great white pelican, also called the eastern white pelican or rosy pelican, is a huge bird, 140–180 cm long with an enormous pink and yellow bill of about 29–47 cm and a dull pale-yellow gular pouch. The wingspan is 226–360 cm, the highest among living flying animals outside the great albatrosses. Only the Dalmatian pelican is, on average, larger among pelicans (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds from south-eastern Europe through Asia and Africa in swamps and shallow lakes (Wikipedia, general species account).

Quick answers

What does the Great White Pelican eat?
Vertebrates and carrion
What habitat does the Great White Pelican live in?
Swamps and shallow lakes
How big is the Great White Pelican?
140–180cm; wingspan 226–360cm
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