Some rare birds have found their way to
the Maritimes after Dorian blew them off course.
Alexandra
Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca writer
Published Tuesday, September 17, 2019 11:08PM
EDT
After a storm as big as Dorian,
residents in Cape Breton probably expected to find a few strange things that
had been blown in by the winds. But a pelican?
A large brown bird has been spotted
strutting around Glace Bay wharf this past week, far from its usual tropical
waters. Experts say the bird was probably as surprised to find itself in
Atlantic Canada as the residents of Cape Breton were to see it -- it's thought
that the bird was blown off course.
The eye-catching bird has become a
sensation in the area.
“There’s
been people coming here from as far as East Bay to take photos,” resident Dylan
Yates told CTV News Atlantic. “It’s just not something you see every day.”
Jeannie Fraser snapped more than one
photo of the bird, saying it was “pretty exciting to see, in spite of the fact
that it shouldn’t have been here.”
If the pelican wasn’t actually aiming
to set up camp in a Nova Scotia harbor, where was it aiming to go?
David McCorquodale, a biology professor
at Cape Breton University and an avid bird watcher, said that the pelican was
blown from the coast of the southern U.S., confirming that the storm was at
fault for the bird’s massive displacement.
And the pelican wasn’t the only bird
whose flight plan went through a drastic change due to storm winds.
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