Deuteronomy 14:17

pelican ḳa-ath, LXX, πελεκάν. Tristram (108) suggests the roseate pelican, P. onocrotalus.

vulture raḥamah, Ar. rakhim, -a small white carrion eagle," migratory, and haunting the abodes of men, one of the commonest carrion birds in Arabia, -the white scavenger" (Doughty, passim; cp. Burton, Pilgrimage, etc., ii. 62); according to Tristram (96) the neophron percnopterus; in Arabia their flesh is forbidden meat, yet mothers give it to their children to expel worms (Doughty, i. 393). The name appears to be derived from its affection to its young, which in Deuteronomy 32:11 is imputed also to the nesher. LXX, κύκνος, swan.

cormorant shalak, that hurlsitself on the prey. LXX, καταράκτης. Tristram (107): phalacrocorax carbo.