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More Than 30 Pelicans Have Been Mutilated on California’s Beaches
NY Times ^ | 15 Jun 2021 | Eduardo Medina

Posted on 06/15/2021 7:48:59 PM PDT by blueplum

Since March, dozens of brown pelicans appear to have been seriously injured by a person or people in Orange County, conservationists said.

The lifeguards in Orange County, Calif., brought the injured brown pelicans to the veterinarian one at a time, the birds’ large wings mutilated, their bones twisted and fractured...

...Of the 32 brown pelicans that Mrs. Wayns and her team have treated since March, only 10 have survived, she said.

The low survival rate is tied to the “extensive injuries that have been brought to them,” Mrs. Wayns said in an interview on Tuesday.

Debbie McGuire, executive director of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center, said many of the injured brown pelicans had bone fractures that protruded from their skin....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalabuse; brownpelicans; huntingtonbeach; pelicans
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California brown pelicans are protected by both state and federal law. There are also reports of pelicans being attacked in Florida.
1 posted on 06/15/2021 7:48:59 PM PDT by blueplum
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Paywall.


2 posted on 06/15/2021 7:50:52 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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Aliens?

They’ve moved on from cows and people.

#MeToo


3 posted on 06/15/2021 7:52:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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UFOs?


4 posted on 06/15/2021 7:53:16 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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Poor birds. They have a right to life too.
Even were someone so desperately hungry, that they needed to kill a Pelican for food, the humane thing to do is just quickly kill it.
You do not injure just to watch the suffering.
That’s deeply sick behavior.


5 posted on 06/15/2021 7:54:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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Chupacabra moving on from goats?


6 posted on 06/15/2021 7:54:17 PM PDT by Clemenza (Elon Musk: wealthiest welfare queen in history )
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Time to up armor!


7 posted on 06/15/2021 7:54:46 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I'm changing my name to 'Spike Protein'!)
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Some sick people out there and the whole lockdown thing has made people crazier than usual.


8 posted on 06/15/2021 7:55:19 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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It’s amazing to read a story about f—-ing pelicans being mutilated when thousands of abortions are conducted every year on innocent, unborn human lives. Simply f—-ing sickening.


9 posted on 06/15/2021 7:55:25 PM PDT by albie
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You can override the paywall here:

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Type in the article url and you are good to go...


10 posted on 06/15/2021 7:56:03 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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You can override the paywall here:

https://archive.vn/siMaL

Type in the article url and you are good to go...


11 posted on 06/15/2021 7:56:03 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Sea Otters taking out the competition for food sources?


12 posted on 06/15/2021 7:57:11 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chancesll be taken that's for sure.)
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This is generally how serial killers get started - exteme cruelty to animals. It takes a certain level of psychopathy to torture animals, and though its “only” anomals, law enforcement ought to devote the resources to catch this slime ball.


13 posted on 06/15/2021 7:57:31 PM PDT by krogers58
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I saw Mutilated Pelicans warm up for Uriah Heep.


14 posted on 06/15/2021 7:57:42 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Based on what Merrick Garland tells me, I bet it was done by white supremacist terrorists. And if the victims were brown pelicans, it better be prosecuted as a hate crime!


15 posted on 06/15/2021 8:00:02 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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Poor Pelicans. What kind of scum would do this to a defenseless animal? Hope they catch the lowlifes and put them in jail.

😡

16 posted on 06/15/2021 8:01:05 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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Thousands of aborted children could not be reached for comment.


17 posted on 06/15/2021 8:06:10 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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The Hill put up a similar article, try that:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/conservationists-plead-for-help-after-more-than-30-pelicans-mutilated-in-calif/ar-AAL57oa?ocid=msedgntp


18 posted on 06/15/2021 8:12:23 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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The mutilations have happened before and since pelicans are usually just offshore on the surf line, I suspect fishermen may be doing this. Maybe the growing homeless population invading California beaches too.


19 posted on 06/15/2021 8:12:42 PM PDT by pfflier
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I did a search and found other articles. The excerpt pretty much says all the info they have. One article said 32 birds injured.


20 posted on 06/15/2021 8:13:05 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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