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Thursday, 8 January 2009

Donde es los pelicanos?



How come I am not here any more?

More tomorrow.

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Anonymous said...

Oh, such a lovely place! And to think you've returned not to your normal winter, but worse, to ours...

(biting tongue not to say anything about verb, en castellano..) Professional deformation, y'know....

8 January 2009 at 19:54
Anonymous said...

Gotta take the rough with the smooth!

8 January 2009 at 20:00
Anonymous said...

I'd like to say you were irresistibly drawn back by your fan base, but I suspect it was something more mundane, such as airplane timetables, employment, and the end being implicit from the beginning.

But I'm glad you're back. There has been a void.

9 January 2009 at 15:37
Anonymous said...

¿Dónde Están los pelícanos?

10 January 2009 at 02:40
Anonymous said...

Pelicans fall out of sky from Mexico to Ore.

Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say.

By Pat Brennan

The Orange County Register

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say.

Weak, disoriented birds are huddling in people's yards or being struck by cars. More than 100 have been rescued along the California coast, according to the International Bird Rescue Research Center in San Pedro.

Hundreds of birds, disoriented or dead, have been observed across the West Coast.

"One pelican actually hit a car in Los Angeles," said Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildrescue, a bird-rescue operation. "One pelican hit a boat in Monterey."

While some of the symptoms resemble those associated with domoic-acid poisoning — an ocean toxin that sometimes affects sea birds and mammals — other symptoms do not. Domoic acid also apparently has not been found in significant amounts offshore, although more tests are needed.

Rescuers are wondering whether the illness is caused by a virus, or even by contaminants washed into the ocean after recent fires across Southern California. Many of the birds also have swollen feet.

"These birds are on the freeway, getting run over," said Jay Holcomb, executive director of the rescue center in San Pedro. "A bunch we've seen have been hit. They've been landing on yards five miles inland. When some of the people have captured them in parking lots, they just sit in the corner. They just go pick them up."

"Maybe the weather has been particularly difficult on them," said Heather Nevill, a veterinarian tracking the problem for the International Bird Rescue Research Center. "Maybe the fish stocks are particularly low. It might be more than one thing, all coming together at once."

10 January 2009 at 03:19

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