Where Do American White Pelicans Actually Live in the US?
American White Pelicans have confirmed sightings in 45 US states, based on 1,979,427 verified occurrence records.
By Tim, founder of Easy Street Markets. I maintain the wildlife database and verify every animal and source myself.
The states with the strongest confirmed populations are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado and Connecticut, and 39 more. These are real, verified iNaturalist and GBIF occurrence records, not modeled range estimates.
A small number of states (2) have only a handful of unverified or vagrant records, too few to confirm american white pelicans as an established population there.
Confirmed states (45)
- american white pelicans in Alabama
- american white pelicans in Arizona
- american white pelicans in Arkansas
- american white pelicans in California
- american white pelicans in Colorado
- american white pelicans in Connecticut
- american white pelicans in Delaware
- american white pelicans in Florida
- american white pelicans in Georgia
- american white pelicans in Idaho
- american white pelicans in Illinois
- american white pelicans in Indiana
- american white pelicans in Iowa
- american white pelicans in Kansas
- american white pelicans in Kentucky
- american white pelicans in Louisiana
- american white pelicans in Maine
- american white pelicans in Maryland
- american white pelicans in Massachusetts
- american white pelicans in Michigan
- american white pelicans in Missouri
- american white pelicans in Montana
- american white pelicans in Nevada
- american white pelicans in New Hampshire
- american white pelicans in New Jersey
- american white pelicans in New Mexico
- american white pelicans in New York
- american white pelicans in North Carolina
- american white pelicans in North Dakota
- american white pelicans in Ohio
- american white pelicans in Oklahoma
- american white pelicans in Oregon
- american white pelicans in Pennsylvania
- american white pelicans in Rhode Island
- american white pelicans in South Carolina
- american white pelicans in South Dakota
- american white pelicans in Tennessee
- american white pelicans in Texas
- american white pelicans in Utah
- american white pelicans in Vermont
- american white pelicans in Virginia
- american white pelicans in Washington
- american white pelicans in West Virginia
- american white pelicans in Wisconsin
- american white pelicans in Wyoming
Unconfirmed (2)
Only a handful of unverified or vagrant records exist for american white pelicans in Alaska, Hawaii, too few to confirm an established population.