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  Pelecanus Strategic Advisory Services Inc.
Pelecanus is dedicated to assisting organizations in the creation and assessment of their risk management, strategy development, and stakeholder management processes.
In the same way that pelicans show fishermen where to avoid the risks of the sea and where the valuable schools of fish lie, Pelecanus works with its clients to help them manage risk and, in so doing, uncover the value in their business strategies.
Pelecanus is an acronym for the businesses and the territories which Pelecanus serves:
www.pelecanusadvisory.com   (151 words)

  
  Brown Pelican Summary
The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a large water bird of the family Pelicanidae that is found along both coasts of the United States, chiefly in saltwater habitats.
Peruvian pelicans used to be considered a subspecies of the brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis thagus).
However, due to their well-defined allopatry and because they are much larger and heavier than their relatives, they were reclassified as a separate species.
www.bookrags.com /Brown_Pelican   (979 words)

  
 EUROPA - Environment - Action plan Pelecanus crispus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus is classified by IUCN as globally threatened in the category Vulnerable (Groombridge 1993), and this is unchanged under the new criteria (Category C2a: small population and declining with severe fragmentation) (Collar et al.
Lysenko, V. (1994) The Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) in the Ukraine.
Romashova, A. (1994) Breeding biology and feeding ecology of Pelecanus crispus and Pelecanus onocrotalus in the northern Caspian.
ec.europa.eu /environment/nature/directive/birdactionplan/pelecanuscrispus.htm   (7389 words)

  
  Brown Pelican - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Brown Pelican is protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty of 1972.
Pelecanus: Latin for pelican; occidentalis: Latin meaning western.
This page was last modified 14:21, 29 September 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brown_Pelican   (197 words)

  
 EUROPA - Environment - Action plan Pelecanus crispus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus is classified by IUCN as globally threatened in the category Vulnerable (Groombridge 1993), and this is unchanged under the new criteria (Category C2a: small population and declining with severe fragmentation) (Collar et al.
Lysenko, V. (1994) The Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) in the Ukraine.
Romashova, A. (1994) Breeding biology and feeding ecology of Pelecanus crispus and Pelecanus onocrotalus in the northern Caspian.
europa.eu.int /comm/environment/nature/directive/birdactionplan/pelecanuscrispus.htm   (7389 words)

  
 Directory - Science: Biology: Flora and Fauna: Animalia: Chordata: Aves: Pelecaniformes: Pelecanidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pelecanus occidentalis  · cached · Photo of Brown Pelican in flight over Gulf of Mexico beach Florida.
The White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)  · cached · Tells of the status in Alberta of this bird, removed from the list of threatened species in 1987.
Pelecanus occidentalis (Brown Pelican)  · iweb · cached · Images plus facts about this species' range, physical traits, and natural history.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=96565   (130 words)

  
 Australian Pelican
They have an extremely light skeleton, weighing less than 10% of their total body weight.
The Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus is found throughout Australia, Papua New Guinea and western Indonesia, with occasional reports in New Zealand and various western Pacific islands.
Breeding behaviour and ecology of the Australian Pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus, in New South Wales.
www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/australian_pelican.htm   (1065 words)

  
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The genus Pelecanus was first used by Linnaeus and applied to the European pelican.
californicus Ridgway - Pelecanus fuscus, Pelecanus californicus, Pelecanus occidentalis, brown pelican, and gray pelican (144); for P.o.
Effects of organochlorine residues on eggshell thickness, reproduction, and population status of brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) in South Carolina and Florida, 1969-76.
fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/esis/lists/e101047.htm   (10808 words)

  
 Pelicans: Birds
Brauner Pelikan (Pelecanus occidentalis) - Text und Abbildung.
Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) (University of Michigan) - Text and Images.
Karibischer Brauner Pelikan (Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis) - Text.
www.infochembio.ethz.ch /links/en/zool_voegel_pelikane.html   (192 words)

  
 Genus - Pelecanus | Species - crispus result
The ecology and behaviour of the Dalmatian Pelican, Pelecanus crispus Bruch.
The present state of pelican populations (Pelecanus onocrotalus and _P.
The presence of the Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus on Ulcinj saltpans (Montenegro).
www.unep-wcmc.org /isdb/reference.cfm?genus=Pelecanus&species=crispus   (490 words)

  
 Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis at MarineBio.org
Once they have caught their prey, they will carry it in the esophagus or gullet, rather than the pouch.
The Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis (Linnaeus, 1766), is set apart from its brethren by its dark, bulky body, about 1.2 m long.
The head is downy and white with a pale yellow wash on the crown; the long bill is grayish; and the back, rump, and tail are streaked with gray and dark brown.
www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=188   (1162 words)

  
 birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
The shape and size of the skull, its structure and the coloration of the bills are often very helpful for the identification of the - often partly decayed - carcasses that can be found on the world`s coasts.
The Spotbilled Pelican (Pelecanus phillipensis), one of the largest birds of the Indian subcontinent, is in danger of vanishing forever from the face of the earth.
This is the story of a group of dedicated people fighting to save one of the five remaining breeding colonies of this endangered bird, in a small village in Karnataka...
www.fatbirder.com /species_and_families/non_passerines/pelecanidae.html   (415 words)

  
 Australian Pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus at MarineBio.org
With a wing span of more than 3 meters and a weight of up to 13 kilograms, the Australian pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus (Temminck, 1824), aka Australasian or Spectacled pelican, is one of the world's heaviest flying birds and boasts the longest bill—up to 40 centimeters long—of any known bird.
The only pelican in Australia, Pelecanus conspicillatus is also found in Papua New Guinea and western Indonesia, with occasional reports in New Zealand and Sulawesi.
Any area with a large body of standing water is a potential pelican habitat.
www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=537   (1046 words)

  
 San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Pelican
Conservation status: Dalmatian pelican Pelecanus crispus and spot-billed pelican Pelecanus phillippensis are vulnerable.
Brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis —a plunge diver that fishes over salt water.
These pelicans paddle along in the water, usually where there is a lot of vegetation where they can hide.
www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-pelican.html   (1120 words)

  
 Pelican Gun Cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The barometric relief valve will therefore, most likely, result in an exit of air, such that the contents of the case remains dry, since water will not go into a valve that is exhaling air.
''Pelecanus conspicillatus'' A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae.
Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds, they make up the order Pelecaniformes.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/142/pelican-gun-cases.html   (1127 words)

  
 Birds and Nature: The American White Pelican
In the year 1758 the naturalist Linnaeus gave to the birds called Pelicans the generic name Pelecanus.
The generic name Pelecanus and the common name Pelican are derived from pelekan, the Greek name for these birds.
Three of the species inhabit North America and two of these are seldom seen except on the sea coasts; the brown pelican (Pelecanus fuscus) on, the Atlantic coast and the California brown pelican (Pelecanus californicus) on the Pacific coast.
www.birdnature.com /mar1901/pelican.html   (545 words)

  
 Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) - BirdLife species factsheet
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Summary Pelecanus occidentalis inhabits shallow inshore waters, estuaries and bays in the Americas, breeding along the Pacific coast from California (USA) to Chile and along the Atlantic coast from South Carolina (USA) through the West Indies to Venezuela, ranging as far as Canada and Tierra del Fuego (Chile) in the non-breeding season.
Recommended citation BirdLife International (2007) Species factsheet: Pelecanus occidentalis.
www.birdlife.org /datazone/sites/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3815&m=0   (370 words)

  
 Australian Pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus at MarineBio.org
With a wing span of more than 3 meters and a weight of up to 13 kilograms, the Australian pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus (Temminck, 1824), aka Australasian or Spectacled pelican, is one of the world's heaviest flying birds and boasts the longest bill—up to 40 centimeters long—of any known bird.
The only pelican in Australia, Pelecanus conspicillatus is also found in Papua New Guinea and western Indonesia, with occasional reports in New Zealand and Sulawesi.
Any area with a large body of standing water is a potential pelican habitat.
marinebio.org /species.asp?id=537   (1043 words)

  
 California Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
The species Pelecanus occidentalis is currently designated as endangered in the entire U.S., except the Atlantic coast, Florida and Alabama.
Within the area covered by this listing, the species is known to occur in California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Texas, Virgin Islands, Washington, Central and South America.
The California brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) is one of six recognized subspecies of brown pelican.
www.fws.gov /sacramento/es/animal_spp_acct/ca_brown_pelican.htm   (825 words)

  
 NatureServe Explorer Species Index: Genus Pelecanus
AB, BC, MB, NT, ON, SK Pelecanus occidentalis
U.S. Implied status-the taxon itself is not named in the Federal Register but it nonetheless has status because of its taxonomic relationship to a named entity.
All other data last updated: October 6, 2006
www.natureserve.org /explorer/speciesIndex/Genus_Pelecanus_101710_1.htm   (862 words)

  
 Brown Pelican Photographs, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phillip Colla Natural History Photography
Brown Pelican Photographs, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phillip Colla Natural History Photography
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www.oceanlight.com /html/brown_pelican.html   (62 words)

  
 Avian Demography Unit: Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus
Any sightings of Great White Pelicans at any time of the year should therefore be reported to our Great White Pelican project coordinator, Marta de Ponte (e-mail).
Conservation of an increasing population of Great White Pelicans Pelecanus onocrotalus in South Africa's Western Cape.
The breeding population of White pelicans Pelecanus onocrotalus at Bird Rock Platform in Walvis Bay, 1949-1978.
web.uct.ac.za /depts/stats/adu/species/sp049_00.htm   (1464 words)

  
 Stock Photo of Eastern White Pelicans ( Pelecanus onocrotalus ) on myLoupe.com - Stock Photography
Stock Photo of Eastern White Pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) on myLoupe.com - Stock Photography
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 Photogallery - Neophron Ltd. - Birdwatching in Bulgaria; Birding tours in Bulgaria; Nature tours in Bulgaria; Wildlife ...
White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) migration in Attanasovsko lake
White Pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) at meadows near Bourgas lakes
Migrating White Pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) near Bourgas lakes
www.neophron.com /gallery.htm   (148 words)

  
 Pelicans Photo Gallery by Ton, Ben & Rob Nagtegaal at pbase.com
Roze pelikaan - Great White Pelican - Pelecanus onocrotalus
Kleine pelikaan - Pink-backed pelican - Pelecanus rufescens
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www.pbase.com /tonbenrob/pelicans   (70 words)

  
 Definition of pelecanus - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
pelecanus is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com.
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www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=Pelecanus   (82 words)

  
 Great white pelican - Pelecanus onocrotalus - ARKive
Great white pelican - Pelecanus onocrotalus - ARKive
Status:  The great white pelican is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List 2006 and is listed on Appendices I and II of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS or Bonn Convention).
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www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Pelecanus_onocrotalus   (193 words)

  
 Pelicans, Pelecaniformes, Pelecanidae, Pelecanus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In fact the Australian Pelican (right) has the largest bill of any known bird in the world.
Pelicans belong to Order Pelecaniformes, Family Pelecanidae, Genus Pelecanus.
Image search for American White Pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
www.birdsandanimals.info /bcp/articles/pelicans.htm   (123 words)

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