Family PELECANIDAE                               

 PERUVIAN PELICAN: Pelecanus thagus

       It is a bulky marine birds, which amounts to 2.30 mts. wingspan.
   Huge peak with a membrane as a bag in the jaw
   lower. Inhabits the Pacific coast to Tierra del Fuego and the
   Atlantic to northern Brazil. It feeds on fish.

         
 In our country there are recent records in the provinces of Tierra del Fuego, Chubut and Mendoza, so that the
considered accidental.

      
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