HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Hundreds of sick and dying brown pelicans from various Southern California counties are flocking to the coastlines and inland lakes in what experts call an “unusual” mass-stranding event.
While Orange County care centers have seen dozens come through their doors, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties have seen hundreds more.
“We’re all just trying to figure it out right now,” Debbie McGuire, executive director of Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center, told The Epoch Times. “We don’t have an answer to what’s going on, but it’s making us all sad.”
McGuire said the care center began receiving the seabirds en masse on May 13 from around eight animal control agencies. Approximately four dozen brown pelicans from Orange, Riverside, and San Bernadino Counties have since arrived emaciated, hypothermic, and starving….