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Wildlife Center of the North Coast|Sep 18, 2014

On September 11, the Wildlife Center of the North Coast released 22 white pelicans at Vista Park in Skamokawa. The white pelicans were admitted to the center as starving chicks, unable to fly or feed themselves. "Human disturbance on the pelicans' nest island, up the Columbia River, is the primary cause for this nest abandonment," center Assistant Director Joshua Saranpaa wrote in a press release. Campers were spending the week of July 4th on this island, he said. When they got too close to the...