JUPITER FARMS — Three winters ago, a baby brown pelican navigated the icy Connecticut River as she fought hypothermia and her feet became frostbitten. Today, that "snowbird" — who goes by the name ...

A baby pelican traveled at least 500 miles up California’s coast before landing near Mendocino alone on May 10 — exhausted and starving. Now, the fledgling is in the care of International Bird Rescue, ...

Colin Thiele’s 1963 children’s novel about a boy and his beloved pelican receives tender and touching treatment in its second film adaptation. Adding a contemporary wrap-around story to the 1950s-set ...

Fifty years ago, the insecticide DDT nearly wiped out pelicans. Today, four- to five-thousand pairs nest in North Carolina – about a quarter of them on marshy, low-lying spoil islands in the Cape Fear ...

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