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All the statistical data that I have come across concerning the Pelican relates to it's length, weight and wingspan. Nowhere can I find data on its WING AREA and it's WING LOADING. These are important factors to anybody interested in studying the flight performance of anything that flies, whether it be a natural flying machine(bird) or man made(aeroplane). If you are collating data on birds and Pelicans in particular, you would be a large leap ahead of any other publication if you include this data in your encyclopedia. Michael Adams. mikewight@internode.on.net

The weight of a pelican is between 100 and 1000 pounds? I think this should be grams.

Weight too high

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The weight of 13 kg for this species is rubbish. Figures of "4 to 6.8 kg up to 8.2 kg" from the first reference are more truthful, however, the featured maximum wingspan of 3.4 m is again much too great. These seem like misrepresented figures for pelicans in general: the largest, Dalmatian Pelican weighs 7.25–13 kg (though apparently the White Pelican may be heavier at up to 15 kg) and has a span of 270–320 cm (or 310–345 cm according to older sources). --Anshelm '77 (talk) 20:19, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Goolayyalibee

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Who on earth calls them Goolayyalibee? --Ptcamn 08:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think its an Aboriginal Word, so it shouldn't be used here because this is the english wikipedia 203.143.238.107 04:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Juvenile Pelican

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Having checked all the usual sources I cant find a picture of a Baby or Juvenile Pelican. In fact no on-line info about their breeding habits. Can anyone help? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.167.25.215 (talk) 12:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC). Knowing nothing about Pelicans I do not dare to edit the article, but I strongly doubt the information on the breeding is correct. I can not believe that for "two months they [young pelicans] will be fed fish such as goldfish or the introduced European carp". How can an Australian bird feed his youngsters only on import fish???? I would delete this statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.105.217.71 (talk) 08:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 20:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

File:Australian pelican in flight.jpg to appear as POTD soon

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Australian Pelican
An Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) in flight. This species of pelican can be found on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant to New Zealand. At about 1.7 m (5.6 ft) in length and with a wingspan of about 2.4 m (7.9 ft), it is medium-sized by pelican standards, but has the largest beak of any bird; the largest one on record was 49 cm (19 in) long. Widespread throughout its large range, the Australian Pelican is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.Photo: Fir0002
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