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  • More Than 30 Pelicans Have Been Mutilated on California’s Beaches

    06/15/2021 7:48:59 PM PDT · by blueplum · 36 replies
    NY Times ^ | 15 Jun 2021 | Eduardo Medina
    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...