American White Pelican

Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

American White Pelican photographed by Hassan
Hartford · July 15, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 1.9M open records.

Records by month. January, 167,101 records. February, 139,980 records. March, 152,066 records. April, 218,960 records. May, 236,590 records. June, 142,699 records. July, 132,559 records. August, 141,332 records. September, 144,380 records. October, 133,723 records. November, 137,515 records. December, 135,058 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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