Reports and References

for Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (American White Pelican)

Reports from BC Conservation Data Centre

BC Species Summary

 

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Reports from Other Databases

E-Fauna BC: Electronic Atlas of the Wildlife of British Columbia

 

Global Comprehensive Report (NatureServe Explorer)

Species at Risk Brochure

Blood, D.A. 1993. American White Pelican. B.C. Minist. Environ., Lands and Parks, Wildl. Branch. 6pp.

Identified Wildlife Species Account

British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection. 2004. Accounts and Measures for Managing Identified Wildlife. Version 2004. Biodiversity Branch, Identified Wildlife Management Strategy, Victoria, B.C.

Other Related References

Baicich, P.J., and C.J.O. Harrison. 1997. A guide to the nests, eggs and nestlings of North American birds. Second edition. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 347pp.

 

Campbell, R.W., N.K. Dawe, I.McT. Cowan, J.M. Cooper, G. Kaiser, and M.C.E. McNall. 1990. The Birds of British Columbia, Vol. 1. Nonpasserines: Introduction, Loons through Waterfowl. Royal B.C. Mus. in association with Environ. Can., Can. Wildl. Serv. 514pp.

 

Derby, C.E., and J.R. Lovvorn. 1997. Predation on fish by cormorants and pelicans in a cold-water river: a field and modeling study. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54:1480-1493.

 

Dunbar, D.L. 1984. The breeding ecology and management of white pelicans at Stum Lake, B.C. Fish and Wildl. Rep. No. R-6., B.C. Minist. Environ., Surrey. 85pp.

 

Evans, R.M. 1984. Some causal and functional correlates of creching in young White Pelicans. Canadian Journal of Zoology 62:814-819.

 

Evans, R.M. 1996. Hatching asynchrony and survival of insurance offspring in an obligate brood reducing species, the American White Pelican. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 39:203-209.

 

Evans, R.M. and F.L. Knopf. 1993. American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos). In A. Poole and F. Gill, editors, The Birds of North America, No. 57. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC.

 

Findholt, S.L., and S.H. Anderson. 1995. Diet and prey use patterns of the American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) nesting at Pathfinder Reservoir, Wyoming. Colonial Waterbirds 18:58-68.

 

Fraser, D.F. and L.R. Ramsay. 2015. American White Pelican in Davidson, P.J.A., R.J. Cannings, A.R. Couturier, D. Lepage, and C.M. Di Corrado (eds.). The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of British Columbia, 2008-2012. Bird Studies Canada. Delta, B.C.

 

Fraser, D.F., W.L. Harper, S.G. Cannings, and J.M. Cooper. 1999. Rare birds of British Columbia. B.C. Minist. Environ., Lands and Parks, Wildl. Branch and Resour. Inventory Branch, Victoria, BC. 244pp.

 

Godfrey, W.E. 1986. The Birds of Canada, rev. ed. Natl. Mus. Can., Ottawa, ON. 595pp.

 

Harper, W.L., and J. Steciw. 2000. American White Pelican foraging lakes in British Columbia: surveys and preliminary management recommendations. Osiris Wildlife Consulting, Victoria, BC, and the BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Williams Lake, BC. 97pp.

 

Harper, W.L., and K. VanSpall. 2001. Foraging ecology of the American White Pelican in British Columbia: two year progress report - 2000. HCTF report by Osiris Wildlife Consulting, Victoria, BC and the BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Williams Lake, BC. 97pp.

 

Harper, W.L., K. VanSpall, and J. Steciw. 2004. Foraging ecology of the American White Pelican in British Columbia: final summary report (1999-2002). HCTF report by Osiris Wildlife Consulting, Victoria, BC and Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Williams Lake, BC. 248pp.

 

Johnsgard, P.A. 1993. Cormorants, darters, and pelicans of the world. Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, D.C. xiv + 445pp.

 

Johnson, R.F.Jr., and Sloan, N.F. 1978. White Pelican production and survival of young at Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. Wilson Bulletin 90(3):346-352.

 

Lamb-Yorksi, M. 2018. Endangered pelicans have "guarded prognosis" after Puntzi Lake rescue. BC Local News.

 

Lingle, G.R. and N.F. Sloan. 1980. Food habits of white pelicans during 1976 and 1977 at Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. Wilson Bulletin 92:123-125.

 

McMahon, B.F. and R.M. Evans. 1992. Nocturnal foraging in the American White Pelican. Condor 94(1):101-109.

 

VanSpall, K., J. Steciw, and J.A. Young. 2005. Fifty years of American White Pelican breeding at Stum Lake, British Columbia. Waterbirds. 58(sp1):18-22

 

Wood, M.D. 1990. Summer foraging distribution and habitat use of White Pelicans on the Fraser Plateau, B.C. Tech. Rep., B.C. Environ., Fish and Wildl., Williams Lake. viii+155pp.

 

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