Pelican’s door-knock rescue: Florida scientists save an injured bird outside a NOAA lab
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A brown pelican visited a NOAA Fisheries lab in Panama City, Florida, tapping at the back door and was found to be injured by fishing line and cactus spines; biologists treated the bird, and researchers say the encounter may reflect the pelican’s instinct to seek help or food, before it flew away—an uplifting, one-of-a-kind moment for the scientists.
- Scientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help. The Washington Post
- Knocking for Help: A Pelican’s Unlikely Rescue NOAA Fisheries (.gov)
- Injured Pelican Goes to the Right Place for Remarkable Rescue Birds and Blooms
- A pelican in Florida was in need of help, so it knocked on NOAA’s door WESH
- Have you heard the one about the Florida pelican that knocked on the door? Yahoo
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