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		                    white pelican
                    
            
                            Flocks of white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) fishing cooperatively...
                    
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		                    North American white pelican
                    
            
                            North American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos).
                    
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		                    European white pelican
                    
            
                            European white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) in flight.
                    
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		                    Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010: oiled pelican
                    
            
                            A pelican is cleansed of oil by Dr. Erica Miller at the Clean Gulf Associates Mobile...
                    
                            MC2 Justin Stumberg/U.S. Department of Defense
                    
                    
                    
		                    Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010: wildlife
                    
            
                            U.S. Fish and Wildlife workers releasing pelicans that were cleaned and rehabilitated...
                    
                            Courtesy of BP p.l.c.
                    
                    
                    
		                    Australian pelican
                    
            
            
            
            
                            Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus), Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New...
                    
                            © Richard Pallardy
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