... Emerging from dog crates facing the open ocean, eight rehabilitated brown pelicans padded down a Cabrillo Beach boat ramp Friday on absurdly short legs, wings flapping hard to gain lift as they rose ...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Scientists are trying to determine what is causing California brown pelicans to become disoriented, wandering onto freeways or hitting boats.
... officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that ...
A pelican at the Tautphaus Park Zoo took something other than food in his bill when a cell phone that had been dropped in a pool at the exhibit made its way down the hatch.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Pelican Bay Ltd. of Dunedin, Fla., says it is recalling its "Caramel Chocolate Truffle Hot Chocolate Mix" because it might contain undeclared tree nuts.
In a bizarre reaction to dwindling fish stocks, great white pelicans have turned to eating live gannet chicks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction....
... all pterosaurs have been imagined by palaeontologists to have lived like modern seabirds: as gull- or pelican-like predators that flew over lakes and oceans, grabbing fish from the water. But a study ...
... already returned to Medicine Lake to capture mosquitoes, trap stable flies and monitor pelicans. They will also trap mosquitoes along the Yellowstone and Milk rivers, locations in western Montana and ...
... eagles; and tropicbirds (white, swift-flying ocean birds) are not closely related to pelicans and other waterbirds.
Shorebirds are not a basal evolutionary group, which refutes the widely held view ...
HENRY, Idaho (AP) -- A cunning predator that hunts in packs, corners prized game species and devours them whole is angering sportsmen in this eastern Idaho RV hamlet on the Blackfoot Reservoir's ...
... bound for Antarctica will be shipped and protected from harsh polar elements in commercially available Pelican cases and specially designed "ruggedized" cases developed by IU.
"One of the biggest ...
... would have any reason to be out there is just beyond believability. But the island is named Pelican Cay, so people may have gone there to capture sea birds and their eggs."
People were drawn by the ...
... of overfishing, the birds are no longer able to find enough food to rear their young. Pelicans, kelp gulls and seals are becoming increasing threats -- the lack of fish means that these predators are ...
