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Brown Pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis

Lives in Virginia all year and nests here. Found in 25 of 133 counties and cities, across 5 habitats.

Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
25 of 133 counties and cities
Habitats
5

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
All year
Nesting
Nests here
Range
25 of 133 counties and cities
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 Virginia 5

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

1 of 5

Coastal dunes and beaches

Core Banks dunes, June 2013
Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune)Dune grassland. Shown: Core Banks, Cape Lookout, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Core Banks dunes, June 2013, Jarek Tuszyński, June 2013. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source record.

Salt and brackish marshes

Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge
Year-roundAtlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt MarshBrackish marsh at a woodland edge. Shown: Fort Fisher, North Carolina, a neighboring state.Fort Fisher brackish marsh and woodland edge, ncwetlands.org, undated. CC0 1.0. Source record.

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 (18)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Virginia.

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

All habitats

Seasons in Virginia

  • Year-round: nests here, in 25 of 133 counties and cities.

Also found in this habitat

Plants 34

Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Virginia. Shared habitat, not food.

Wildlife 218

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Virginia. Not sighting records.

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources