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American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)

American White Pelican
Photo: Manjith Kainickara via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the American White Pelican

The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a large aquatic soaring bird from the order Pelecaniformes. It breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts, as far as Costa Rica, in winter.

Source: American white pelican on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the American White Pelican. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:50) via xeno-canto.org/175257, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Call (0:39) via xeno-canto.org/175255, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in United States · xeno-canto lists 6 recordings for this species in total.

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