More news reports are coming out, some with humourous images (right) about the current brown pelican crisis in California. Currently there are 75 pelicans in care at IBRRC’s two bird centers:
PELICANS suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird rescue workers say.
Weak, disoriented birds are huddling in people’s yards or being struck by cars. More than 100 have been rescued along the California coast, according to the International Bird Rescue Research Center in San Pedro.
Hundreds of birds, disoriented or dead, have been observed across the West Coast.
“One pelican actually hit a car in Los Angeles,” said Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildrescue, a bird rescue operation. “One pelican hit a boat in Monterey.”
From the Daily Telegraph in Australia: See Full story
Others
Scientific American: Mystery: Why are California Brown pelicans dying in droves?
National Geographic: VIDEO: Mystery Pelican Die-Off in California
Fox-35 TV: Brown Pelican Mystery Intensifies As Deaths Increase
KSBW-TV: Rash Of Sick Pelicans Found Along Coast
AP: Increase of sick brown pelicans baffles experts
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