{"id":344619,"date":"2010-02-20T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8bc0065970b"},"modified":"2010-02-20T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:33:13","slug":"pelicans-eat-through-bird-rescue-groups-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/344619","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans eat through bird-rescue group’s budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The San Pedro nonprofit group charged with treating sick pelicans is suffering an affliction of its own: strapped finances.<\/p>\n

That’s because a cold and starving pelican eats a whopping 6 pounds of fish a day — half its body weight.
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<\/br>Hundreds of brown pelicans turned up dead or ailing along the West Coast in January after what researchers said was a miscalculation: They strayed to the far northern edge of their range, stayed too long and ran out of food. When they came south, they found food scant here too.
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<\/br>So they turned up listless on beaches or begging for food in parking lots, and were rescued by San Pedro’s Oiled Bird Care and Education Center.
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Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

— Jill Leovy<\/p>\n

Photo: Afternoon feeding time creates a frenzy around the outside aviary at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in San Pedro, where scores of pelicans have been rehabilitated and returned to the wild. Credit: Bob Chamberlin \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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The San Pedro nonprofit group charged with treating sick pelicans is suffering an affliction of its own: strapped finances. That’s because a cold and starving pelican eats a whopping 6 pounds of fish a day — half its body weight.Hundreds of brown pelicans turned up dead or ailing along the West Coast in January after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}