Brown Pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis

Brown Pelican photographed by Henry Haas
Fernandina Beach · February 22, 2025

When to look

Reported most in January, across 2.4M open records.

Records by month. January, 270,154 records. February, 228,348 records. March, 214,122 records. April, 234,649 records. May, 167,143 records. June, 130,092 records. July, 154,598 records. August, 174,448 records. September, 184,492 records. October, 199,540 records. November, 207,363 records. December, 230,999 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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