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Brown Pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis

Lives in Louisiana all year and nests here. Found in 15 of 64 parishes, across 4 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
15 of 64 parishes
Habitats
4

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
15 of 64 parishes
Habitats
4
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 4

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 4

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Year-round

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Year-round

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

Year-roundOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (20)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (16)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
  • Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Year-round.
  • Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Year-round.
  • South Florida Mangrove Swamp Year-round.
  • South Florida Shell Hash Beach Year-round.
  • Southeast Florida Beach Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Beach Year-round.
  • Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Year-round.
Northeast (2)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Year-round.
  • Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain Dune and Swale Year-round.
Land cover and other classes (2)
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Year-round: nests here, in 15 of 64 parishes.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 169

Plants 20

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Louisiana

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 128

Plants 84

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Louisiana

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Birds 91

Plants 25

All of coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated) in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources