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What is the difference between Pelican And Stork?

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Answered Oct 15, 2020

Pelicans are large-bodied birds, and there are eight different species of pelicans. They have a characteristic pouch attached to their lower bill, powerful legs, and webbed toes for swimming. The pelican is also considered a flying bird with strong, massive wings.

Their calls are croaks and mumbles, and they do not have melodic singing voices—some pelicans nest on the ground and in trees. Storks, on the other hand, are long-legged, and there are more than nineteen species of storks living in the world, and they are mute.

There are black-necked storks, painted storks, open bills, wooly necked storks, and marabou storks. Most of the stork family are migratory birds. They make nests for the long term, as they are home bodied birds. The stork is often portrayed as delivering a baby snuggled in a blanket and hanging from their beak.

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M. Klose

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M. Klose, Content Writer, Oakland

Answered Oct 07, 2020

Some people may get confused with the different birds that are available without realizing that there are a lot of differences that will help you distinguish one bird from the other. A pelican comes with a large bill. In fact, this has the largest bill among all of the other birds.

A stork, on the other hand, is a little bit smaller as compared to pelicans. Pelicans are known to have the ability to make different sounds while storks will not be able to make sounds. In fact, they are going to be mute but they would stay with their partners for a long time.

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E. Stanley

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E. Stanley, Technical writer, Indianapolis

Answered Sep 15, 2020

Pelicans and storks are two elegant birds that can fly up and longer distances; they are both endangered species; they both don't sing.

Pelicans are large water bird in the genus of Pelecanus; they are eight species of pelicans where five species are white, and the three others are brown. Pelicans are mostly found in coastal regions; some of the species live inland through the breeding season while others continue on the coasts. Their feet are short but strong legs and feet with webbed toes right for swimming. They feed mainly on fish, they are sociable and prefer to move in a group.

Storks are large wading birds that belong to the genus Ciconia, their are19 species of storks. They are found in the dry and wet habitats of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Storks build strong and large platform nest on big trees. The male storks help the females in incubating her eggs.

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D. Ronald

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D. Ronald, Writer, Austin

Answered May 05, 2020

Pelican and Stork are two dangerous birds that have large bodies. They are elegant and can attain a very long height in the sky. The storks belong to the order of Ciconiiformes, while the pelicans belong to the order Pelecaniformes. The pelicans also belong to the genus Pelecanus. They are birds existing just in eighth different species and are large water birds.

They are mostly found in the coastal regions, which include the coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They have the brown pelicans which are majorly found on the seas, and the five species of them being white pelicans that make their habitat inside freshwaters. The pelicans do not sing; they only grunt and croak.

On the other hand, storks belong to the genus Ciconia, and they happen to be large wadding beds. They possess elongated legs, and they have long legs. There are nineteen major species of this creature on earth, which include black-necked, openbills, painted, and etc. They are usually found in wet and dry habitats in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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