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The brown pelican is the [[List of national birds|national bird]] of [[Collectivity of Saint Martin|Saint Martin]], [[Barbados]], [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], and the [[Turks and Caicos Islands]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfrWCQAAQBAJ|title=The Complete Guide to National Symbols and Emblems [2 Volumes]|last=Minahan|first=James|date=2009|publisher=American Bibliographical Center-Clio Press|isbn=978-0-313-34497-8|pages=669, 741, 751, 761|language=en}}</ref> In 1902, it was made a part of the official [[Seal of Louisiana|Louisiana seal]] and, in 1912, a pelican and her young became part of the [[Flag of Louisiana]] as well.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uy8lAQAAMAAJ|title=Louisiana Conservationist|date=1969|publisher=Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department|pages=92|language=en}}</ref> One of Louisiana's [[List of U.S. state nicknames|state nicknames]] is "The Pelican State",<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZW7qAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA195|title=State Profiles 2013: The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State|last=Ryan|first=Mary Meghan|date=2013|publisher=Bernan Press|isbn=978-1-59888-641-2|pages=195|language=en}}</ref> and the brown pelican is the official [[List of U.S. state birds|state bird]] of Louisiana.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bOQCybjwif4C&pg=PA4|title=Encyclopedia of Louisiana|last=Capace|first=Nancy|date=1999|publisher=Somerset Publishers, Inc.|isbn=978-0-403-09816-3|pages=4|language=en}}</ref> It is one of the mascots of [[Tulane University]], present on its seal,<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|url=https://www.aboutanimals.com/bird/brown-pelican/|title=Brown Pelican {{!}} The Common Pelican of America|date=2017|access-date=2017-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706025749/https://www.aboutanimals.com/bird/brown-pelican/|archive-date=2017-07-06|url-status=dead|language=en}}</ref> and is also present on the crest of the [[University of the West Indies]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v529c8e1TOoC&pg=PR2|title=The University of the West Indies: A Quinquagenary Calendar, 1948–1998|last=Hall|first=Douglas|date=1998|publisher=University of the West Indies Press|isbn=978-976-640-073-6|pages=1|language=en}}</ref> The [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA)'s [[New Orleans Pelicans]] are named in the honor of the brown pelican.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nba.com/2013/news/01/24/hornets-pelicans.ap/|title=Hornets announce name change to Pelicans|date=January 24, 2013|access-date=February 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801173042/http://www.nba.com/2013/news/01/24/hornets-pelicans.ap/|archive-date=2017-08-01|publisher=National Basketball Association}}</ref>
In the 1993 film ''[[The Pelican Brief (film)|The Pelican Brief]]'', based on the [[The Pelican Brief|novel of the same name]] by [[John Grisham]], a legal brief speculates that the assassins of two supreme court justices were motivated by a desire to drill for oil on a Louisiana marshland that was a habitat of the endangered brown pelican. In the same year, ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'' showed a pod of brown pelicans at the end of the film. In 1998, American conductor [[David Woodard]] performed a requiem for a California brown pelican on the seaward limit of the [[berm]] of a beach where the animal had fallen.<ref>{{cite news|last=Manzer|first=T.|url=https://juniperhills.net/p.jpg|title=Pelican's Goodbye is a Sad Song|work=[[Long Beach Press-Telegram]]|date=October 2, 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Allen|first=B.|title=Pelican|location=[[London]]|publisher=[[Reaktion Books]]|year=2019|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aD96EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT152&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|pages=152–153|isbn=9781789141177
===Status and conservation===
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