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Rash Of Sick Pelicans Found Along Coast


Animals  (tags: california, marine wildlife, pekicans, sick, euthanized, suffering, sadness, endangered, extinction )

Jacquelin
- 338 days ago - ksbw.com
MONTEREY, Calif. -- Wildlife experts are trying to find out what is making pelicans along the coast of California sick. The SPCA of Monterey County has received 16 pelicans at their Wildlife Center since Dec. 29. Seven of those pelicans have been eutha
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Raven Sky is away (282)
Tuesday January 6, 2009, 8:37 pm
This saddens me, I love pelicans and when I first volunteered in Wildlife Rehab.. in Marin County we had a pelican that came in with a wing injury. Turns out that it had an infection in its wing and we had to euthanize it.. it was a young juvenile bird and it was really sad. It would not surprise me that they are filled with toxins and in so many cases around the planet.. Pollution is killling off many species.
 
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