After more than six weeks, multiple surgeries and more than 500 stitches, a pelican called “Blue” made her way home from the shores of an isolated San Pedro beach on Thursday, April 25 — concluding a ...

The future is looking up for the 3-year-old California brown pelican that was found on March 10 with a mostly-detached pouch. The pelican had a second surgery this week at the International Bird ...

Pelicans are large water birds known for their “scooping” mouth pouch used to catch fish in the water. There are currently eight living pelican species present in many regions around the world.

Similar injuries to birds have been reported along the California coastline from Ventura to Dana Point over the past five years but no arrests have been made in those cases. Click to share on Facebook ...