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 ...
Florida too? Maybe it’s a group of anti pelican people.
NYT noted the florida mutilations were sliced pouches; Calif are twisted until broken and protruding wing bones. Sliced pouches can be repaired but wings that are almost twisted off is just sadistic and done for maximum suffering. Either a psycho or someone lacking American cultural values concerning respecting wild critters
Disgusting sickos who could hurt innocent animals.
Someone with a depraved heart, regardless of culture is responsible. If anyone ever deserved a tuneup, it’s whoever is doing this.
Caught up in trawlers?
Someone installed some windmills nearby?
Thought about that and possibly seals. Seals are the Coyotes of the ocean.
Hope they catch up to them. Probably someone with a boat.
Ghastly. Only a vicious moron would attack those beautiful birds.
When I lived in Florida, I discovered that Pellicans love music. They congregated and flew over small bands playing at weddings on the beach. Far far better creatures than morons who attack them.
Dogs, probably BIG dogs.. Pitbulls, etc. ‘Someone’ is letting their dogs run the beaches.
Any wind turbines with blood spattered blades in the area?
Not “sick”.
Evil.
Let’s call it for what it is.
The Ancient Mariner at work....
Water water everywhere but oh the boards did shrink?
How do they know it’s not a sea animal attack, like feral dogs mauling sheep?
An article today said they are pretty sure it is a person or persons. Something similar happened in 2008 and 2020.
I’m going to guess consistency of injuries and lack of bite marks/flesh tears?
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