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Baby Pelicans Starving Along Calif. Coast
Topic Started: Jun 26 2006, 11:09 PM (51 Views)
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Baby Pelicans Starving Along Calif. Coast
By MARCUS WOHLSEN

http://story.news.ask.com//article/20060625/D8IFG9E00.html

CORDELIA, Calif. (AP) - Miles from the shoreline, 10 baby brown pelicans lounge by a pool in a roomy cage, large buckets of fish there for the taking. Just days ago, these birds could not feed themselves at all. Scores of starving baby pelicans - emaciated, cold and too weak to fly - are washing up on California beaches in disturbing numbers this spring.

The underfed California brown pelicans have stirred concerns over the endangered species, which in recent years has shown strong signs of recovery. Biologists say the recovery could actually be the source of the problem: There are more pelicans competing for food.

The International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia, in the grassy hills about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, has taken in almost two dozen pelicans this month, most of them near Santa Cruz and Monterey, all of them 2 to 4 months old.

The center's sister facility in San Pedro, south of Los Angeles, has cared for more than 50 Southern California birds since late May.

The California brown pelican nearly disappeared in California in the early 1970s, a decline blamed largely on the pesticide DDT, which caused pelicans to lay eggs with shells so fragile that parents would break them when they tried to sit on them.
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I've never seen brown pelicans before Jezzie. I thought they were all black and white. The poor babies, glad someone is tryijng to save them.
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That's so sad. I hope something can be done.
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