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Pelicans are large water birds in the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and large throat pouch, used in catching, and draining water from, their prey. The eight living pelican species have a sometimes patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from much of interior and southern South America as well as from polar regions and the open ocean. Fossil evidence of pelicans dates back at least 30 million years, from the remains of a beak very similar to modern species recovered from Oligocene strata in France.
Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters where they feed principally on fish. Gregarious birds, they breed colonially and often hunt cooperatively. They have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography.
The genus Pelecanus was first formally described by Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema naturae in 1758. The distinguishing characteristics were described as a straight bill hooked at the tip, linear nostrils, a bare face, and fully webbed feet. This early definition included frigatebirds, cormorants and sulids as well as the pelicans. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek word πελεκυς pelekys meaning “axe” and applied to birds that supposedly cut wood with their bills or beaks. Pelicans give their name to the order Pelecaniformes, an order which has had a varied taxonomic history; darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies and frigatebirds are traditional members which have since been reclassified as Suliformes, while tropicbirds now have their own order, the Phaethontiformes. Evidence points to the clade consisting of the Shoebill and the Hamerkop being the sister group of the pelicans, though there is some doubt on the exact relationship between the three lineages.
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