pelican

genus of birds
Taxon taxon Q19413
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pelican

Summary

pelican is a taxon[1]. pelican ranks in the top 0.29% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,687 views/month, #572 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • pelican's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • pelican is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • pelican is classified within pelicans[5].
  • pelican's scientific name is Pelecanus[6].
  • pelican's Commons category is recorded as Pelecanus[7].
  • pelican began on -28100000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • pelican's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pelecanus[9].
  • pelican's Commons gallery is recorded as Pelecanus[10].
  • pelican's depicted by is recorded as Bronze lectern ''Pelican''[11].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[12].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[13].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[14].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Second Edition[15].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[18].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[19].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[21].
  • pelican's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[22].
  • pelican's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23].

Body

Classification

pelican's scientific name is Pelecanus[6]. pelican is classified at the rank of genus[4]. pelican is classified within pelicans[5].

Identifiers

pelican's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 4324[24]. pelican's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 33617[25]. pelican's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45509058[26]. pelican's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 10650925[27]. pelican's ITIS TSN is recorded as 174683[28].

Discovery and Description

Things named for pelican include Pelican Island, Bridgetown[29], a former island[30], in Barbados[31] and Pelecanimimus[32], a fossil taxon[33].

Why It Matters

pelican ranks in the top 0.29% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,687 views/month, #572 of 195,241).[2] pelican has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] pelican is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for pelican include Pelican Island, Bridgetown[29], a former island[30], in Barbados[31] and Pelecanimimus[32], a fossil taxon[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [25] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [28] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [27] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q292181
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q292181, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 10w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 11997
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 11997, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167483175|PELICAN (#167483175)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mix"
  3. 14w ago · Oronsay · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Irmng id → 1354407
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  4. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Temporal range start → Q101873
    Start time → -28100000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Described by source → Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature, Otto's encyclopedia, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus +8
    Instance of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 17708, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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