Australian Pelican
英文名：Australian Pelican（学名：Pelecanus conspicillatus），是鹈形目鹈鹕科鹈鹕属的鸟类。大型水鸟，广泛分布于澳大利亚内陆和沿海水域，以及新几内亚部分地区。其最显著的特征是拥有鸟类中最长的喙，长度可达50厘米。澳洲鹈鹕全身以白色为主，双翼主羽呈黑色，喙呈淡粉红色。在繁殖季节会聚集在澳大利亚内陆湖泊和塔斯马尼亚州，非繁殖季节则可见于新几内亚、爪哇岛和印尼苏拉威西岛。
Australian Pelican
1.5-1.9 m; span 2.4-2.6 m. Huge black-and-white bird with very large bill and pink bill-pouch, red in mating displays. Female: smaller. Immature: black parts browner. Singles to flocks: swimming groups encircle fish, plunging heads in unison; single birds swim stealthily up to fish with head low, neck folded. On wing, looks like rotund flying-boat, head drawn back, bill resting on breast; note white panel on black upperwing, white V on rump. Flies in lines or Vs, with intervals of wingbeats and glides; flocks slow-wheel to great heights on flat, slender wings; skims over calm water in long, sailing glides. Perches on piles, logs, dead trees, light-stanchions; tame where fed.
- Voice
- gruff croaks.
- Habitat
- large shallow waters: fresh, brackish and saline, coastal and inland; occasionally open sea; also islands, mudflats, sandspits.
- Breeding
- almost any month, mostly Aug.-Nov. in s. Aust.
- Nest
- a scrape, progressively lined with sticks, grass, seaweed; in small to very large isolated colonies, usually on bare islands, coastal or inland; occasionally in vegetation over water.
- Eggs
- 2-3; chalky, dull white.
- Range & Status
- Aust. and Tas.: common in suitable habitat; inland movements influenced by rainfall. Dispersive; highly nomadic. Also New Heb., Solomon Is., PNG, Indonesia; vagrant NZ.
