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April 17, 2012 by Dick Corten via Berkeleyside
Brown pelicans don’t often look for collegiate settings to make landings. But one weakened and disoriented female showed up in front of Sproul Hall recently and provided dinner-going passerbys with a reason to pause until a trained wildlife responder by chance appeared and took the bird under her wing. A campus police officer muttered: “This was definitely not covered at the academy.”
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December 23, 2010 by Bay Nature Staff
Though California brown pelicans are the smallest of all pelicans, they are still very impressive birds, with wingspans occasionally as big as eight feet. Nearly driven to extinction by DDT, they’ve made a comeback but are now threatened by mysterious harmful algae blooms.
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January 16, 2009 by Laura Hautala
Recently, people have been finding debilitated, or even dead, brown pelicans up and down the West Coast. Initially baffled, scientists now believe the birds’ expanding range clashed with an unusually severe winter storm in December 2008.
June 09, 2008 by Rick Bacigalupi
Viewing a diverse Bay Area ecosystem can be as simple as a trip to the beach. Marine tidepools display a …
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October 01, 2006 by Aleta George
While you’re heading to the polls this November, California brown pelicans will be returning to breeding grounds that range from …
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