Pink-backed pelican
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The pink-backed pelican is a bird of the pelican family. It is a resident breeder in the swamps and shallow lakes of Africa and southern Arabia; it has also been extirpated from Madagascar.
Pink backed pelican side view
Dorsal view showing characteristic pink back
Pelecanus rufescens – MHNT
Formation flying
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
Pink-backed pelican
…Africa and southern Arabia; it has also been extirpated from Madagascar. The pink-backed pelican was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the other pelicans in the genus Pelecanus and coined the…
Johann Friedrich Gmelin