Taken at Healesville wildlife sanctuary
Victoria.

The Australian Pelican is medium sized by pelican standards, with a wingspan of 2.3 to 2.6 m (7.5 to 8.5 ft). The pale pinkish bill is enormous, even by pelican standards, and is the largest bill in the avian world.
Australian Pelicans occur primarily in large expanses of open water without dense aquatic vegetation. The habitats that can support them include large lakes, reservoirs, billabongs and rivers, as well as estuaries, swamps, temporary flooded areas in arid zones drainage channels in farmland, saltplains and coastal lagoons.