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Brown Pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis

Lives in North Carolina all year and nests here. Found in 20 of 100 counties, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
20 of 100 counties
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
20 of 100 counties
Habitats
5
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

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

Habitats in North Carolina 5

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

1 of 5

Coastal dunes and beaches

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

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland

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

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh

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 (17)

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

Elsewhere in the South (13)
  • 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.
  • 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 North Carolina

  • Year-round: nests here, in 20 of 100 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, 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.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 112

Plants 132

All of coastal dunes and beaches in North Carolina

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 120

Plants 23

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in North Carolina

Salt and brackish marshes

Birds 92

Plants 52

All of salt and brackish marshes in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources