Most bird books don’t even have White Pelicans on the range map for South Carolina, but there are lots of reliable sightings in the last decades. It is possible that the species was generally missing from the state for a long stretch around the 1900’s. Arthur Trezevant Wayne, who published Birds of South Carolina in 1910, says “I have never seen this fine species alive on our coast,” and references Bachman’s quote to Audubon.