Scores of emaciated brown pelicans, too weak to fly, have been found on Southern California beaches in the last month
and taken to an Orange County rescue center, according to its director. “We’re getting dozens of calls,” Debbie McGuire, executive director of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, said on Saturday. “People are finding them in parking lots and their backyards.” The rescued pelicans, she said, “are coming in at half their body weight. They are also very anemic.
In the last month, the center has taken in 89 brown pelicans, many of them quickly dying, McGuire said. More than 30 have survived, she said, as the center warmed them under heat lamps and gave them fluids. She said the center sent tissue samples from the birds to labs for testing. A similar spike in the stranding of brown pelicans up and down the California coast occurred in the spring of 2022. The cause has not been found.
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