Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - American White Pelican FAMILY - Pelecanidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Pelecanus erythrorhynchos REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Transient, present briefly as migrant. 13 Accidental-Bze not part of normal range. 14 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 14 Transient, present briefly as migrant. 13 Transient, present briefly as migrant. 3 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 10 District Reference Belize 12 Belize 6 Corozal 4 Stann Creek 5 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Shipstern Nature Reserve 4 Private land, see comments Dry season 6 Government land Sighting February 12 Hydrologic Association Reference Manatee River 5 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 11 1-200 m 12 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 11 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30' 12 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 5 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 4 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical moist 12 Subtropical moist 11 General Distribution Comments 13* Occasional coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. Occasional mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches. 12* Feb. 11, 1987, 0910; 2 birds swimming in a lagoon 50' from the roadside, exactly 1 mile beyond Burdon Canal bridge. 6* BZ City oil terminal 5* observed by Peak, 1901; Russell prefers to exclude from list. 3* Transient, rare in coastal savannas. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 5 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 6 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 7 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller, S. N. G. Howell. In prep. An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Belize. 8 Stiles, F. G., A. F. Skutch. 1989. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY. Comstock Publishing Associates 9 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 10 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 11 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 12 Balderamus, P. 1987. White Pelicans!. Belize Audubon Society Bulletin. 18(11):4. 13 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p. 14 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program.
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