Australian Pelican

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	Australian Pelican	Common name
	Pelecanus conspicillatus	Scientific name
	Pelicaniformes	Order
	Pelecanidae	Family
		length
		Habitat
		Clutch
		Food

		Habits
	3793	World Number

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The Australian Pelican is medium sized by pelican standards but has the largest bill in the avian world... During the courtship period, the bill and pouch change colour dramatically ... the forward half of the pouch becomes bright salmon pink ... This colour change is of short duration, the intensity usually subsiding by the time incubation starts ... Photographed at Cleland Wildlife Park, Adelaide Hills, South Australia

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01/03/2008 0000000

25/10/2009 500,000

28/02/2012 870,300

01/01/2009 151,000

01/10/2010 562,291