{"id":1264,"date":"2009-01-14T22:12:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2009-01-14T22:12:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:12:39","slug":"report-peculiar-acting-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/01\/14\/report-peculiar-acting-pelicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Peculiar-Acting Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/Users\/ErinHome\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/Users\/ErinHome\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1265\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1265\" title=\"pelicanfly\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/01\/pelicanfly.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Brown Pelican\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/01\/pelicanfly.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/01\/pelicanfly-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disoriented pelicans are wandering far from home (photo: Josh Pederson \/ SIMoN NOAA) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Soaring in &#8220;flight formations&#8221; above the ocean on its 6-foot wingspan, plunging straight down into the water in a spectacular dive, swallowing fish its large pouch of a bill &#8211;\u00a0 these are all very normal behaviors expected of a brown pelican.\u00a0 But wandering alone around inland parking lots, back alleys and farmfields, appearing skinny and sickly, or even turning up dead \u2013\u00a0 most decidedly not normal behavior.\u00a0 Which is why\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breakingnews\/ci_11419359\"> record numbers of <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breakingnews\/ci_11419359\">sick and dead brown pelicans since late December, <\/a>which have been filling wildlife rehabilitation centers along the California coast to their capacity since late December,\u00a0 have many researchers puzzled and worried.\u00a0 The California population of these great\u00a0 birds are federally listed as endangered, having been nearly wiped out by DDT before the pesticide was banned in 1972.\u00a0 They have since made a successful recovery, but the recent spike of birds exhibiting odd behaviors and turning up dead has scientists scrambling to find a cause.\u00a0<span><span> Some birds tested positive for domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by photosynthetic algae, but their symptoms do not include the seizures normally triggered by domoic acid poisoning, leading scientists to believe this may only be part of larger problem. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>People are reporting that affected pelicans\u00a0 look emaciated and disoriented, and the usually-social birds are showing up alone in unusual places far from home.\u00a0 If you see any sick or dead pelicans, please contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildrescue.org\/index.html\">WildRescue<\/a> at<\/span><\/span> 866-WILD-911.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1267\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1267\" title=\"pelicans2\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/01\/pelicans2.jpg\" alt=\"Adult (white head) and juvenille (dark head) brown pelicans\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/01\/pelicans2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/01\/pelicans2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/01\/pelicans2-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult (white head) and juvenille (dark head) brown pelicans (photo: Josh Pederson \/ SIMoN NOAA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring in &#8220;flight formations&#8221; above the ocean on its 6-foot wingspan, plunging straight down into the water in a spectacular dive, swallowing fish its large pouch of a bill &#8211;\u00a0 these are all very normal behaviors expected of a brown pelican.\u00a0 But wandering alone around inland parking lots, back alleys and farmfields, appearing skinny and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-seabirds"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}