Brown Pelican (C) (Pelecanus occidentalis) | Start Date 1987-01-01 |
| Ref | First | Last | Location | County | 2 | 3 | Comment | Status |
1 | 78:40 | 2005-07-16 | 2005-07-27 | Little Spirit Lake | Jackson | | | (record #2005-048, vote 10–0). This immature was first found on the Iowa side of the border at Spirit Lake and fortuitously wandered into Minnesota (The Loon 78:11–14). | Accepted |
2 | 82:3 | 2009-06-27 | 2009-07-02 | German Lake | Le Sueur | | | (record #2009-031, vote 7–0). Second state record. Subadult, photographed. | Accepted |
3 | 84:107 | 2012-04-04 | 2012-04-09 | at the marina in Red Wing | Goodhue | Dakota | | (record #2012-005, vote 7–0). This adult was photographed by numerous observers, but no one submitted a complete description supported by field notes. The Committee welcomes images and other physical evidence, but always values written descriptions based on field notes taken while the bird was being observed or shortly thereafter. What is believed by the Committee to be the same bird was also seen and photographed in Dakota County on 9 April 2012 at the intersection of U.S. Highway 52 and County Road 46. The Goodhue and Dakota county records are both first county records. Other contemporaneous sightings of a purported Brown Pelican in Hennepin and Chisago Counties (thought to be the same bird though not photographically documented) were Not Accepted by consensus of the Committee at its 2 December 2012 meeting. | Accepted |
| avian information | 2012-04-09 | | | Dakota | | | 4/9 Dakota (third state record) (first county record) Third state record 4/4–9 Goodhue (Red Wing) ph. CH, JWH, ph. KRE, ph. RZi, ph. CRM (The Loon 84:154). Also photographed 4/9 in Dakota (flying over Hwy. 52 and C.R. 46) ph. DAC. Originally found and photographed by a local fisherman on 4/4 at Red Wing fide TPB.
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4 | 85:99 | 2013-05-31 | 2013-06-01 | Myre-Big Island State Park | Freeborn | | | (record #2013-027, vote 7–0). Adult in alternate plumage, photographed. Fourth state record and first county record. | Accepted |
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  | Four records: two spring and two summer. Recorded in three of the last ten years, most recently 2013. |