Staff with the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach said it's unclear what caused the stranding that inundated rescue centers.
Emerging from a handful of carriers and with the encouragement of staff from Huntington Beach’s nonprofit Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center, a dozen brown pelicans spread their wings and took off beneath a bright blue sky at Corona del Mar State Beach in Newport Beach on Friday afternoon.
The Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center said in a news release that the birds were victims of what appears to be a that occurred along the Southern California coastline. The reasons for thousands of birds being beached are unclear, but several of the pelicans needed sheltering at local wildlife care centers earlier this spring.Many, the center said, came with critically low body temperatures, dehydration, emaciation and parasites.suggest that numerous pelicans died of starvation as opposed to disease or unusual parasites, though state officials have not officially confirmed what the underlying cause is.
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