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Acknowledgments
I thank Daniel Anderson and Alan Poole for giving me the opportunity to write this profile and for their helpful suggestions on improving the manuscript. Daniel Anderson also provided invaluable data from his ongoing, long-term studies of California Brown Pelicans. For furnishing information and/or unpublished data, I thank David Allen, George Angehr, Ted Below, Eldridge Bermingham, David Blankinship, David Brinker, John Brunjes IV, Joanna Burger, Roger Clay, Jaime Collazo, Steve Emslie, Lee Fox, Phil Glass, Walker Golder, Frank Gress, James Keith, Thomas Murphy, Stephen Nesbitt, Robert Ridgely, Roberto Schlatter, Elizabeth Schreiber, Gilles Seutin, Steve Shively, Bryan Watts, John Weske, Bill Williams, and Brad Winn. For assistance in gathering field data, I thank John Brunjes IV, Damon Greer, Kim Markham, Jason Minton, James Parnell, and Melissa Stanley. I thank the Birds of North America editorial staff for providing additional references and valuable comments on earlier versions of this account.
Shields, Mark. 2002. Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/609
