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Everglades by Jean Craighead George, Illustrated by Wendell Minor

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Brown Pelican Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Manatee Deck Titusville, Florida, USA December, 2019

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Florida Wildlife, January 1966. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.

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So close...

Short video of a flock of brown pelicans. It's not the best; with my glasses on, I couldn't see the phone screen because my lenses are a) polarized; b) photogreys; and c) for middle distance, not up close. With my glasses off, I couldn't see because the sun was too bright & reflecting off the screen into my eyes. It's a shame, because viewing it later I saw that the flock dove right at the end of the video, but most of it was off-screen because I moved the phone in the wrong direction. Le sigh.

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Me and the besties

Inspired by some pelicans i saw at the river and two of my best friends

[ID: a digital painting that shows three brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) perched in a white, wooden mast each. Two of them look at the camera while the one in the middle is opening their beak and stretching their wings. Behind them, the background shows green trees and a blue sky without clouds. End ID].

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Tropical hues

Vero Beach, FL - Jan 24

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The Sea for May: Northern California coast with tiny pelicans.

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By all available accounts, there isn’t a lack of ocean forage

Excerpt from this Smithsonian story:

Several hundred starving, sick or injured brown pelicans have turned up on beaches throughout California over the past few weeks, with wildlife officials still unable to pinpoint the cause of what they are calling a “crisis.”

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and other non-governmental partners, have been working to collect and rehabilitate the birds, many of which are anemic, dehydrated and underweight.

“They’re in really poor physical shape. They’re starving, and they haven’t gotten enough nutrition,” Russ Curtis, a spokesperson for the nonprofit organization International Bird Rescue, which is helping in the rescue efforts, tells KQED’s Annelise Finney.

“When there’s not the fishing stock that they can find, they take chances around fishing piers and fishing boats and places where there are people with fishing tackle,” Curtis says, explaining that some pelicans have been hurt by fishing hooks and lines they encounter near the shore.

As of this week, the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center (WWCC) in Huntington Beach and Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network have admitted more than 100 pelicans each, while International Bird Rescue has taken 260 pelicans into its two California facilities—one in Los Angeles County, and one in the San Francisco Bay Area, reports Cheri Carlson of the Ventura County Star.

Other birds have been found dead on beaches. Necropsies have revealed starvation as their cause of death, which has puzzled scientists. Populations of fish that pelican forage, by all accounts, remain abundant off the Pacific coast.

We also know that there’s supposedly plenty of anchovies and their food out there in the ocean, so we don’t really know why they are not able to forage yet,” Debbie McGuire, executive director of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center, tells Eugene Garcia of theAssociated Press.

Brown pelicans are known to spend their non-breeding months throughout the entirety of the state’s coastline, and the sick birds have been found in a variety of locations. In northern California, most birds have been rescued around Monterey and Santa Cruz, while those in southern California have been found by officials in a variety of traditional and non-traditional habitats. Two dozen pelicans were found on Newport Beach and dozens more were picked up around Huntington Beach—but sick birds have also been identified in a lake at SoFi stadium, the home of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams, and at a Malibu fire station, the Guardian’sDani Anguiano reports.In rescue efforts, the first step is to support the birds with warmth. “The great news is the vast majority are recovering if we can get them through those first couple of critical hours of hypothermia,” Elizabeth Wood, the WWCC’s veterinarian and medical director, says in a video posted to Facebook.

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