Posted: Friday, December 8,
2017 10:25 pm
By RICK KELLEY Staff Writer
HARLINGEN — More than 200 brown
pelicans were rescued by volunteers along State Highway 48 Thursday, which was
in stark contrast to a vehicular massacre of the birds one year ago.
The “Pelican Team” was created
following two storm-filled days last December after cold fronts created
conditions forcing pelicans onto the roadway that stretches from Port Isabel to
Brownsville. Between 60 and 100 birds perished under the wheels of vehicles
along a stretch of highway with a 75-mph speed limit.
This year between a dozen and two
dozen birds were lost, but the numbers were far fewer due to the efforts of the
Pelican Team as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas General Land
Office, Texas game wardens, Good Samaritans and the Port Isabel Volunteer Fire
Department.
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