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Urgent - Pelican Stranding Event
We are experiencing an unusual stranding event involving brown pelicans. Published May 3, 2024
Due to an extended mass-stranding event, the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center is caring for dozens of Brown Pelicans flooding in from Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. The cause of this event is unknown. Pelican patients cost $45 per day; with 28 currently at the center (and dozens more expected to arrive), one can imagine the magnitude of our weekly operating cost for pelicans alone— not to mention our hundreds of other animals. Please consider a donation of any size. We urgently need financial support to respond to this event.
Seabirds suffer a heavy toll when oceans are polluted and overfished, with some studies suggesting global seabird numbers have dropped nearly 70% since the 1950s. Your donation today could make a difference. Please consider helping us save the lives of these pelicans by donating now to the WWCC at www.wwccoc.org
We started seeing an uptick in Brown Pelicans arriving on Saturday, April 2nd. We have received 79 from mostly Orange County, while a few are being found inland. Fifty-one died within the first 2 hours of arrival.
They are coming in emaciated, and hypothermic. Initial lab work is confirming they are in starvation mode. A large percentage are coming in with fishing gear entanglement.
The pelicans are responding to supportive care which includes fluids (both oral and IV fluids), vitamins, and food. The ones we are caring for have improved and are steadily gaining weight. Follow-up lab work shows that their anemia and low total proteins in their blood are improving.
Many questions are being asked about how you can tell if a pelican is sick. If pelicans look like this one, or, if it does not flush and move away as people approach them, this indicates a sick pelican that needs to be taken into care.
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Urgent - Pelican Stranding Event
We are experiencing an unusual stranding event involving brown pelicans. Published May 3, 2024
Due to an extended mass-stranding event, the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center is caring for dozens of Brown Pelicans flooding in from Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. The cause of this event is unknown. Pelican patients cost $45 per day; with 28 currently at the center (and dozens more expected to arrive), one can imagine the magnitude of our weekly operating cost for pelicans alone— not to mention our hundreds of other animals. Please consider a donation of any size. We urgently need financial support to respond to this event.
Seabirds suffer a heavy toll when oceans are polluted and overfished, with some studies suggesting global seabird numbers have dropped nearly 70% since the 1950s. Your donation today could make a difference. Please consider helping us save the lives of these pelicans by donating now to the WWCC at www.wwccoc.org
We started seeing an uptick in Brown Pelicans arriving on Saturday, April 2nd. We have received 79 from mostly Orange County, while a few are being found inland. Fifty-one died within the first 2 hours of arrival.
They are coming in emaciated, and hypothermic. Initial lab work is confirming they are in starvation mode. A large percentage are coming in with fishing gear entanglement.
The pelicans are responding to supportive care which includes fluids (both oral and IV fluids), vitamins, and food. The ones we are caring for have improved and are steadily gaining weight. Follow-up lab work shows that their anemia and low total proteins in their blood are improving.
Many questions are being asked about how you can tell if a pelican is sick. If pelicans look like this one, or, if it does not flush and move away as people approach them, this indicates a sick pelican that needs to be taken into care.
