Did
you read about Arizona's pounding pavement pelicans this summer? In July the Arizona
Game and Fish Department was called upon to nurse over 30 dehydrated, emaciated,
banged-up pelicans. From Yuma to Phoenix, these birds were literally flying into
the pavement.
How
did it happen? Affected by a fish shortage along the west coast, they headed inland
toward Arizona. Tired and deluded by the heat, the pelicans mistook the shining
summer sidewalks and roads for creeks and lakes. They headed...
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