Review highlights that New Zealand pelicans represent a distinct sub-species, suggesting unique evolutionary traits.
The discovery of sub-fossil pelicans in New Zealand is reviewed, and the conclusion reached that, owing to their larger size, the New Zealand birds were a distinct sub-species, which is here named Pelecanus conspicillatus novaezealandiae.
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