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title: "Roze pelikaan"
description: "Pelecanus onocrotalus — Vogels. The great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), also known as the eastern white pelican (in contrast to the western pelican of the Americas), rosy pelican or simply white pelican, is a bird in the pelican family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/great-white-pelican
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Roze pelikaan

> Pelecanus onocrotalus — Vogels. The great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), also known as the eastern white pelican (in contrast to the western pelican of the Americas), rosy pelican or simply white pelican, is a bird in the pelican family.

- Scientific name: *Pelecanus onocrotalus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 10246
- Wikidata: [Q199427](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199427)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4327](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4327)

## Names

- en: Great White Pelican
- de: Rosapelikan
- es: Gran pelícano blanco
- fr: Pélican blanc
- nl: Roze pelikaan
- pt: Pelicano-branco
- pl: Pelikan różowy

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (1208), KE (954), RO (646), NA (622), TZ (533), GR (444), RU (438), IN (398), IL (397), SN (306), UA (220), ET (178)

## Summary

The great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), also known as the eastern white pelican (in contrast to the western pelican of the Americas), rosy pelican or simply white pelican, is a bird in the pelican family. It breeds from southeastern Europe through Asia and Africa, in swamps and shallow lakes.
The great white pelican has been rated as a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species (IUCN). It is listed under Appendix I of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, Annexure I under the EU Birds Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds, and Appendix II of…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_pelican

## Photo

![Roze pelikaan](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-white-pelican/medium.jpg)

Photo: marsyd · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223582865

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-white-pelican?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).