Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens)
About the Pink-backed Pelican
The pink-backed pelican (Pelecanus rufescens) is a bird of the pelican family. It is a resident breeder in the swamps and shallow lakes of Africa and southern Arabia; it has also been extirpated from Madagascar.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 2 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Senegal, Zambia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchosrecording
- Australian PelicanPelecanus conspicillatusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.