This brown pelican, pictured here after surgery, later died. It is one of the more than 30 brown pelicans severely injured in a string of attacks in California.
Mandatory Credit: Dr. Elizabeth Wood/Wetlands & Widlife Care Center/AP
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Someone is breaking the wings of pelicans in California
Dozens of brown pelicans have been attacked and injured in California, with whoever is responsible snapping some of the birds' wings.
