A pelican in Florida was found with fishing line wrapped around its bill, leaving it unable to open its mouth properly until fishermen stepped in to help. Fishing line and other human-made debris can ...

An American White Pelican indulged a bit too much at the seafood buffet and seemed to know it needed help getting its meal down — or out. According to rescuers with the Conservancy of Southwest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wildlife in Need Center in Oconomowoc is asking Wisconsin ice fishers to help supply food for one of its newest patients, ...

Oak Island Water Rescue on Wednesday performed a rescue of a pelican that was trapped in a fishing line. WECT reports rescuers spotted the pelican using high-power binoculars. Mary Ellen Rogers, with ...

OAKLAND (CBS SF) -- Oakland Zoo staff captured and treated a pelican Wednesday that witnesses said had a fishing lure stuck in its throat for over two weeks. Zoo officials said that staff responded to ...

Nature is red of tooth and claw, as the old saying goes. But also, it is red of beak, as the skillful predatory instincts of so many bird species prove. When one thinks of ruthless avian hunters, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The clip shows a brown pelican tailing an osprey mid-flight and attempting to snatch the fish the osprey is carrying—an example of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The future is looking up for the 3-year-old California brown pelican that was found on March 10 with a mostly-detached pouch. The pelican had a second ...

Birds face all sorts of threats in the wild. The threat of Mother Nature when storms happen, the need to find safe places to make their nests, and the threat of predators looking to hunt them down.