Pelican Rescue: Fish carcasses, hooks, and irresponsible pier fishing injures too many sea birds!

I saw a pelican behaving strangely at Fort DeSoto Park in Pinellas County Florida near Tampa Bay. The next day I saw the Brown Pelican again and new something was very wrong. At the same time a Park Ranger was on the scene and Lynn Harding from Birds in Helping Hands, an organization that seeks to rescue injured or orphaned wildlife in order to rehabilitate them and return them to wild. Fishing line, fish hooks, boney carcasses carelessly thrown away can injure all kinds of wildlife. If a pelican is hooked you should never cut the line. It is our responsibility to reel it in an remove the hook. If you can do it yourself you need to seek assistance from one of many organizations that are available to help wildlife.
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