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Definitions of pelicans in various dictionaries:
noun - large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish
noun - a large, web-footed bird
PELICANS - Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used fo...
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| Because these baby birds feed from their parents' pouches, some think they're drinking blood |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) The name Alcatraz is derived from the Spanish for "island of" these birds, that come in brown & white varities |
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| Plural form of pelican. |
| a large gregarious waterbird with a long bill, an extensible throat pouch for scooping up fish, and mainly white or grey plumage. |
| A large gregarious waterbird with a long bill, an extensible throat pouch for scooping up fish, and mainly white or grey plumage. |
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Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. * Long thought to be related to frigatebirds, cormorants, tropicbirds, and gannets and boobies, pelicans instead are now known to be most closely related to the shoebill and hamerkop, and are placed in the order Pelecaniformes. Ibises, spoonbills, herons, and the desolate bitterns have been classified in the same order. Fossil evidence of peli |