Dozens of brown pelicans have been found stranded on Southern California beaches in recent weeks, leading to overrun wildlife care centers as they look into what could be causing the mystery illness.
The Orange County Wetlands and Wildlife Center in Huntington Beach is one of those dealing with mass amounts of pelicans turning up in the past month, with two dozen new patients arriving on Monday alone. They're just the latest brown pelicans in a mass stranding event that has staff and volunteers working overtime, thus far working to rescue more than 150 birds across the region since the start of April.
'There's lots of hypotheses right now, but it does seem that they're not finding enough fish,' she said. 'So, some of the hypotheses are about the gale force winds, or about the fish supply, or ocean temperatures.'So many birds have been brought in that they've had to create special spaces to house them while they're cared for.
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