To: Calpernia
The Case of the Missing Pelicans
Wildlife officials estimate nearly 27,000 American white pelicans have abandoned their summer nesting grounds at a national wildlife refuge in North Dakota. The question is why -- and where they went.
"It's like they packed up and left in the middle of the night -- except they didn't pack up, they just left," said Ken Torkelson, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Bismarck. Left behind were thousands of eggs, which are unlikely to hatch, officials say. (SNIP)
206 posted on
06/11/2004 8:34:27 AM PDT by
milkncookies
(http://www.blackvault.com/documents/ADA359880.pdf)
To: milkncookies
209 posted on
06/11/2004 8:52:01 AM PDT by
null and void
(History is not a tale of self-restraint, and change is accelerating all the time.)
To: Donna Lee Nardo
How about pelican balute?
210 posted on
06/11/2004 8:52:38 AM PDT by
null and void
(History is not a tale of self-restraint, and change is accelerating all the time.)
To: milkncookies
Missing Pelicans...very disturbing...I wonder what geologic activity is going on!!!
I would imagine somebody out there is checking out the other native fauna for any odd behavior.
To: milkncookies
Considering how sensitive wildlife is and how they tend to be a little more "tuned in" to thier surroundings (and sometimes events). . . maybe the pelicans know something we dont.
256 posted on
06/11/2004 10:31:29 AM PDT by
bored at work
(My God is the main course. . .not allah carte')
To: milkncookies
Wildlife officials estimate nearly 27,000 American white pelicans have abandoned their summer nesting grounds at a national wildlife refuge in North Dakota. The question is why -- and where they went.Animal instinct anticipating natural disaster??????
453 posted on
06/11/2004 8:00:53 PM PDT by
MamaDearest
(It's not how many breaths you take in your lifetime, but how many breathtaking moments you live!)
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