Editing Peruvian pelican (section)

==Description==
These birds are dark in colour with a white stripe from the top of the [[beak|bill]] up to the crown and down the sides of the neck. They have long tufted [[feather]]s on the top of their heads. It was previously considered a [[subspecies]] of the [[brown pelican]] (''Pelecanus occidentalis''). The Peruvian pelican is considerably larger, ranging from about {{convert|5|to(-)|7|kg|abbr=on}} in weight, {{convert|137|to(-)|152|cm|ft|abbr=on|1}} in length and with a wingspan of about {{convert|228|cm|ft|abbr=on|1}}.<ref name=HBW/><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Schulenberg |first1=Thomas S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yFuWUc7l0uQC&dq=Peruvian+pelican&pg=PA54 |title=Birds of Peru: Revised and Updated Edition |last2=Stotz |first2=Douglas F. |last3=Lane |first3=Daniel F. |last4=O'Neill |first4=John P. |last5=III |first5=Theodore A. Parker |date=2010-05-04 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-3449-5 |language=en}}</ref> Compared to the brown pelican, it also has proportionally longer crest feathers, as well as differences in the colours of the [[gular pouch]], beak, [[Scapular feathers|scapulars]] and greater [[wing covert]]s.<ref name=HBW/>