Editorial: Big birds soar off the endangered list Nov 20, 2009
The brown pelican is off the endangered species list after 37 years ... Brown pelicans, with their distinctive bills and pouches, were near extinction but have made a comeback ... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that it has taken the brown pelican off the endangered species list. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking Nov 15, 2009
Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer. Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction ... Interior Department officials on Wednesday announced that they were taking the bird off the endangered species list, after a nearly four-decade struggle to keep the brown pelican population afloat. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Brown pelican flies high once again Nov 12, 2009
WASHINGTON - Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction ... jpg File/Ap An American brown pelican skims the water searching for fish off Miami Beach, Fla ... File/Ap An American brown pelican skims the water searching for fish off Miami Beach, Fla. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Brown Pelicans No Longer Endangered Nov 12, 2009
In this Feb 15, 2007 file photo, an American Brown Pelican skims the water as it searches for fish in Miami Beach, Fla. After nearly 40 years on the brink of extinction, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list ... (AP) After nearly 40 years of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list. (CBS News)
US takes brown pelican off endangered species list Nov 12, 2009
A Brown Pelican flies along breaking surf at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, in 2006. The brown pelican, pushed to the edge of extinction in the 1970s by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said ... WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species... (Yahoo! Asia News)
New undersea-themed postage stamps coming Oct 2, 2009
Some of the new stamps feature, from left, a Treefish, Brown Pelican, Yellowtail Rockfish, Western Gull and Pacific Rock Crab under a Jeweled Top Snail ... The stamps feature the brown pelican, Monterey turban snail, brooding sea anemone, treefish, western gull, southern sea otter, red sea urchin, harbor seal, lion's mane nudibranch, Pacific rock crab, jeweled top snail and many other creatures. (MSNBC -- Business)
Letters to the Editor: September 12 Sep 19, 2009
Imagine what one of these blades will do to a brown pelican or a sandhill crane. This is crazy. (Rockport Pilot, TX)
New town name roots uncovered: Aug 20, 2009
My bird books tell me that the brown pelican lives and breeds only in the coastal waters of the South; the white pelican winters in Southern California and the Gulf of Mexico and breeds in British Columbia and Western Canada. It might only be seen in this area if blown off course during migration. (Chetek Alert, WI)
OCEANSIDE: Popular pelican abandons perch Jul 28, 2009
Ed Gonsalves, co-owner of the small bait shop midway along the wooden structure's 1,942-foot length, said the question has been asked over and over again since Charlie, a popular California brown pelican who had hung out on the pier for years, disappeared in early February. "I get calls all the time with people who say 'Where's Charlie? We miss him,' " Gonsalves said. (North County Times)
Prison Sentence For Cosco Busan Pilot Jul 18, 2009
The birds killed include Brown Pelicans, Marbled Murrelets and Western Grebes. The Brown Pelican is a federally endangered species and the Marbled Murrelet is a federally threatened species and an endangered species under California law. (PR Newswire)
Time to bid adieu Apr 19, 2009
The day included the release of several creatures including two brown pelicans, a laughing gull and two ring-billed gulls, and four turtles. Among them was an 8-pound juvenile green sea turtle named Oz that was caught on a hook by a man fishing off the beach in Ponce Inlet. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
The state of birds in the U.S. Mar 21, 2009
But efforts to restore nesting and feeding grounds, ban pesticides and halt development in sensitive wetlands and other migratory stopovers have brought back the California brown pelican, the peregrine falcon, the bald eagle and a bevy of herons, egrets, osprey and ducks, among other birds. "Conservation can really work," said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who released "The State of the Birds" at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., attended by representatives of the... (San Francisco Chronicle)
LETTERS: NCT, March 16, 2009 Mar 16, 2009
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S.E. Cupp: Shame. Guilt. Repeat. Mar 9, 2009
Take the wildebeest, the warthog, the hyena, the brown pelican, the Sharp-Pei. These animals, seemingly wrought by committee, make us laugh or shake our heads. (Newsmax)
Guilty Plea in Case of Cosco Busan Ship Pilot Mar 7, 2009
At least 2,000 migratory birds died, including Brown Pelicans, Marbled Murrelets and Western Grebes. The Brown Pelican is a federally endangered species and the Marbled Murrelet is a federally threatened species and an endangered species under California law. (PR Newswire)
San Francisco is a bird watcher's paradise Feb 24, 2009
Birds: sanderling, marbled godwit, whimbrel, white-winged scoter, Clark's grebe, red-necked phalarope, Caspian tern, California brown pelican. Brandt's cormorant, double-crested cormorant, pelagic cormorant and five species of gulls - western, glaucous-winged, California, Heermann's, Thayer's. (San Francisco Chronicle)
