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The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a small pelican found in the Americas. It is one of the best known and most prominent birds found in the coastal areas of the southern and western United States. It is one of only three pelican species found in the Western Hemisphere. The brown pelican is one of the only two pelican species which feeds by diving into the water.
Usage examples of "brown pelican".
I was sitting at my desk, reading a report on the brown pelican situation, when the secretary of state burst in.
A brown pelican, disturbed out of slumber from its perch beneath the bridge, flapped its wings, made a shallow arc across the Intracoastal.
A brown pelican waddled across the sand following a thread of silver moonlight.
He carried a pocket watch, for Christ's sake, a gold chain with a jade fob carved into the shape of an endangered brown pelican.
They were not the bones of a solitaire, far less those of a dodo, as he had half hoped, hut a mixed set of commonplace storks, cranes, and possibly one brown pelican.