Pelican’s door-knock rescue: Florida scientists save an injured bird outside a NOAA lab
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.