pelecaniform: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Pelecaniformes

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Three eastern white pelicans with black-tipped wings take off from a muddy shoreline, wings outstretched, with blurred green vegetation in the background.

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brown booby: Midway Island National Wildlife Refuge

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Pelecani Phaethontes Fregatae Ardeidae Scopidae Balaenicipitidae Threskiornithidae pelican frigate bird booby passeriform Charadriiform Anseriform falconiform piciform Coraciiform Columbiform gruiform Ciconiiform procellariiform

pigeon. pigeon and dove. member of the order Columbiformes, family Columbidae

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Young chimpanzee dressed in a shirt and sweater vest, scratching his head thinking. (primates)

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The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is seen in Switzerland on December 2024

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Lion (panthera leo)

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Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

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turkey vulture. vulture. Close-up of a head and beak of a Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).

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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

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Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus).

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Dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius). Animals, mammals.

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