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(birds squawking)
(water sloshing)

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(vehicles engines revving)

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(tires screeching)

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(horns honking)

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(crowd chattering)

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- [Female Bystander] You
should put this on YouTube.

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- [Male Bystander] Are
you recording a video?

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(bystanders chattering)

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(horns honking)

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(vehicle engines revving)

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- [Female Bystander]
They should stop traffic.

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(bystanders chattering)

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(security radio chattering)

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Ah, it's injured, I think.

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- [Bystanders] Whoo!

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(crowd cheering)

02:07.026 --> 02:09.526
- [Female Bystander] Oh, shit.

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(vehicle engines revving)
(crowd chattering)

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(horns blowing)

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- [Male Bystander] They're
gonna put him in the police car.

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- [Female Bystander] Oh, he got arrested.

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(car door thuds)

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(horns blowing)

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(gentle music)

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(gentle music continues)

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- [Judy] When I was a little kid,

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I used to have flying dreams.

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I know what this feels like.

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A few years ago, I made a movie

03:38.786 --> 03:40.170
(gentle music continues)
about some wild parrots

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in San Francisco.

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But these birds, I've loved all my life.

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They look like flying dinosaurs.

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I love how graceful they are,

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and then how clumsy.

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Their lives have always been
a mystery to me, though.

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(gentle music continues)
(water sloshing)

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When that pelican landed
on the Golden Gate Bridge,

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(car engine revving)

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it felt like an invitation to follow it.

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(birds chirping)

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(vehicle engines revving)

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(footsteps tapping)
(birds chirping)

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- [Monte] Okay.

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What's going on with
your eye, sweetie pie?

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There you go.

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Thank you.

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Oh, look at, she's
sloughing a lot of skin.

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- [Judy] How do you know she's a she?

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- The only real way of
telling at this point

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is by the length of their bill.

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And females have a slightly
shorter bill than males have.

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Okay, I'm going to look in
her mouth now, quick now.

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Yeah, she's pretty dry, really.

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Which is consistent with
her lack of weight gain.

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Dehydration doesn't do much for appetite.

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If she was eating well,
she wouldn't be dehydrated.

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(Monte grunting softly)

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- [Judy] What's that, medicine?

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- This is just a rehydrating
fluid, Pedialyte.

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- [Judy] Is she injured?

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- No, she's just extremely thin.

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You should eat!

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(bird squawks)

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All of the other birds
that we've gotten in

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have come from places like beaches.

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The bit about the Golden Gate
Bridge is pretty unusual.

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- [Judy] What do you think
about we call her Gigi,

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for Golden Gate?

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- Well.

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(Judy chuckles)

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(Monte chuckles)

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That's-
- You usually

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don't name 'em, right?

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- No, we don't.

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Well, there's a lot of reasons for that.

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The primary reason is
just so that we remember

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that they're not pets,

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we're not interested in them
being tame or used to people.

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So, we try to create a separation.

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- [Judy] But how do you tell them apart?

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- Well, we put the colored
bands on their legs.

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So for instance, Gigi is pink 193.

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We don't, you know, hand feed them.

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We try not to make eye contact.

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(water sloshing)

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Yeah!

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You know, with pelicans
especially it's really hard

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'cause they look at you,

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they initiate eye contact all the time.

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The juveniles especially,

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the ones that are all brown like this,

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they remind me of dogs.

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- [Judy] Really?

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- Well, I think it's because of the way

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that they appear to be,
like, guessing your behavior.

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They seem very curious.

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(water splashing)

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- [Judy] How old is she?

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- [Monte] About three, four months.

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- [Judy] So she's just a baby.

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- [Monte] Yeah, she's this year's model.

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(wings whoosh)

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- [Judy] Do you know where she was born?

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- [Monte] She could have been born in Baja

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or she could have been born
in the Channel Islands.

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The only place in the states

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that California brown pelicans still breed

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is out on the Channel Islands.

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(waves crashing)

07:35.782 --> 07:38.365
(gentle music)

07:49.920 --> 07:51.150
- [Judy] I wanted to find out

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what Gigi's first three months were like.

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(birds chirping)

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What did she see and hear?

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How did she learn to fly?

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(birds chirping)
(waves crashing)

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Santa Barbara Island's a
good place for pelicans

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to have chicks because it's remote.

08:11.051 --> 08:12.930
(waves crashing)

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Nobody lives here full time,

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and it's safe to build
a nest on the ground

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because there are no big mammal predators.

08:24.856 --> 08:27.689
(water splashing)

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Laurie keeps track

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of about a dozen species
of seabirds out here.

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And now she's working

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on a habitat restoration project for them,

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raising native plant seedlings

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and planting them all over the island.

08:43.575 --> 08:45.510
(water sloshing)
(gentle music)

08:45.510 --> 08:47.553
The pelicans don't eat the plants,

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but they use them to build their nests.

08:55.123 --> 08:57.873
(birds chirping)

09:04.182 --> 09:07.015
(leaves rustling)

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(beaks clicking)

09:13.328 --> 09:16.745
(gentle music continues)

09:18.638 --> 09:21.471
(leaves rustling)

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I'd seen lots of other birds share

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the duties of nest building,

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where the male brings the sticks and grass

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and the female builds the nest.

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I'd seen other birds mating, too,

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and it always seems quick and cumbersome.

09:43.616 --> 09:44.820
(gentle music continues)

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Maybe a little more so for pelicans.

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(wings whooshing)

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What I wasn't prepared for

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was how beautiful breeding pelicans are,

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with their bright red pouches,

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and their eyes, normally brown,

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which somehow magically turn blue.

10:13.701 --> 10:17.118
(gentle music continues)

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Another strange thing about pelicans

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is that they have no voice.

10:25.770 --> 10:28.653
They use gestures and
pantomime to communicate.

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The chicks make a begging sound,

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but the adults are totally silent,

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except for a breathing noise they make

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that sounds like "hah hah."

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(pelican breathing)

10:43.019 --> 10:43.852
(gentle music continues)

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If a pelican makes an
elegant bow to its mate,

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like this one,

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it means, "This is our nest.

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I will defend and protect
this nest, I'm not leaving."

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If a pelican swings his head

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almost all the way around in a 360,

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it means, "I like you.

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I don't wanna leave,

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but I will if you want me to."
(gentle music continues)

11:16.066 --> 11:18.983
(wings whooshing)

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(seals barking)

11:24.729 --> 11:27.479
(birds chirping)

11:33.080 --> 11:35.830
(grass rustling)

11:45.869 --> 11:48.536
(beak clicking)

11:59.310 --> 12:01.977
(beak clicking)

12:03.195 --> 12:05.945
(birds chirping)

12:13.492 --> 12:16.075
(gentle music)

12:20.422 --> 12:23.255
(wings whooshing)

12:34.029 --> 12:36.862
(birds squawking)

12:40.281 --> 12:45.281
(gentle music)
(waves crashing)

12:53.062 --> 12:55.729
(beak clicking)

12:56.563 --> 12:59.396
(birds squawking)

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I had some romantic notions

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about the life of pelican chicks.

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Both parents protect them and feed them,

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the one who isn't on
the nest is out fishing,

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but from what I saw,
Gigi is a very lucky bird

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to have made it up to San Francisco.

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(beak thuds)

13:25.032 --> 13:27.699
(feet thudding)

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About half of the chicks

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won't even make it
through their first year.

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(chicks squawking)

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Until they can fly,

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they have to try to survive
intense sibling rivalry

13:42.510 --> 13:45.063
that comes mainly from
competition for food.

13:45.934 --> 13:48.851
(chicks squawking)

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Three chicks usually hatch out

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over the course of about a week.

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If there's lots of fish,
all three might make it.

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But the firstborn chick has a head start

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and gets way more than its
share of regurgitated fish.

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The second born has a chance,

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but the third born chick
hardly ever makes it.

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I filmed again at sunset,

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and it was the last time
I saw the third chick.

14:22.727 --> 14:25.644
(chicks squawking)

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(waves crashing)

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By the end of June, the chicks are huge.

14:42.391 --> 14:43.224
(wings whooshing)

14:43.224 --> 14:46.533
Their wings are as big as
adults', six or seven feet across.

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And I started to see some
really strange behavior.

14:53.430 --> 14:55.890
Not only did this chick hound its parents

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and drive them away, but at the nest,

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it seemed to be having
some sort of seizure.

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(birds squawking)
(waves crashing)

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I found out that brown pelican chicks

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often have these convulsions
after they get fed, too.

15:17.864 --> 15:19.050
(wings whooshing)

15:19.050 --> 15:23.130
Nobody knows for sure
why the chicks do this.

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I asked Laurie about it.

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She thought they might be starving.

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Just not enough anchovies.

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By the time she got her flight feathers,

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about two months after she hatched,

15:41.280 --> 15:45.063
Gigi had probably already
witnessed the death of a sibling.

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(seal barking)

15:53.121 --> 15:56.121
(footsteps tapping)

15:59.946 --> 16:02.422
(birds chirping)

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(waves crashing)
(seals barking)

16:10.775 --> 16:13.016
(gentle music)

16:13.016 --> 16:16.016
(footsteps tapping)

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The surviving chicks are
about 2 1/2 months old

16:22.410 --> 16:24.330
when they get together
at the top of the hill

16:24.330 --> 16:27.510
in a juvenile gang and start to figure out

16:27.510 --> 16:29.560
what their bodies are actually built for.

16:31.482 --> 16:34.315
(wings whooshing)

16:36.084 --> 16:39.360
(footsteps tapping)

16:39.360 --> 16:40.770
What does it feel like

16:40.770 --> 16:44.970
to fly for the first time?
(gentle music continues)

16:44.970 --> 16:46.203
How scary is it?

16:47.700 --> 16:52.203
How does it feel after being
earthbound all your life,

16:53.070 --> 16:55.909
when you're finally in your element?

16:55.909 --> 16:58.742
(wings whooshing)

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(gentle music continues)

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(wings whooshing)
(pensive music)

17:33.198 --> 17:36.031
(wings whooshing)

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(waves crashing)

17:42.996 --> 17:46.186
(wings whooshing)

17:46.186 --> 17:49.686
(pensive music continues)

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(waves crashing)

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I used to think I could learn to fly

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if I just climbed up the
back steps and jumped off,

18:25.650 --> 18:27.063
but my wings didn't work.

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Then I saw my first pelicans in Florida,

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thanks to my grandfather.

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As I got a little older,

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I started to think that I looked like one.

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I was tall and gawky, too.

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And I have a long face.

18:46.263 --> 18:48.311
(water splashing)

18:48.311 --> 18:50.643
(wings whooshing)

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(water splashing)

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Monte, can you help me find Gigi?

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- [Monte] Sure.

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(water splashing)

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Here she is.

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I think that, I mean, they're
all really good-looking,

19:10.440 --> 19:13.988
but I think she's got
an especially cute face.

19:13.988 --> 19:15.571
- [Judy] I do, too.

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- I expect most people would think

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that was just crazy to,
they all look alike.

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As an individual I think
that she's just got a,

19:27.081 --> 19:28.140
I don't know, it's a quality.

19:28.140 --> 19:31.713
It seems like she carries
her wings in a very precise.

19:33.180 --> 19:36.510
It's like she's a perfect
specimen of her kind.

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She's really.

19:38.477 --> 19:41.070
(Judy chuckles)

19:41.070 --> 19:42.300
- [Judy] She's a good-looking bird.

19:42.300 --> 19:43.860
- She's a good-looking bird.

19:43.860 --> 19:44.693
Yeah.

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She is.

19:46.893 --> 19:48.090
(birds squawking)

19:48.090 --> 19:50.910
- [Judy] What's the deal
with these speckled birds?

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They're old, right?

19:52.050 --> 19:53.220
- [Monte] No, no.

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They're two-year-olds.

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You can see the birds that
have the really brown heads,

19:58.560 --> 20:01.410
and over here, you have birds
that have really white heads.

20:01.410 --> 20:04.770
White heads are adults, and
brown heads are juveniles,

20:04.770 --> 20:08.648
and the speckled is on their
way from one to the other.

20:08.648 --> 20:11.481
(water splashing)

20:17.580 --> 20:20.100
All birds really look comfortable.

20:20.100 --> 20:21.570
They really look like they enjoy

20:21.570 --> 20:23.296
being the shape that they are.

20:23.296 --> 20:24.129
- Uh-huh.
- But pelicans,

20:24.129 --> 20:27.213
when they're sleeping, they
look extremely comfortable.

20:28.770 --> 20:31.230
Their neck and their head
tucked back into their wings

20:31.230 --> 20:32.850
or when they turn their face backwards

20:32.850 --> 20:35.553
and put their beak under
their wings to keep it warm.

20:36.450 --> 20:39.183
It's extremely cozy looking.

20:43.395 --> 20:48.395
(gentle music)
(waves crashing)

21:00.150 --> 21:02.523
- [Laurie] It was really serendipitous.

21:03.840 --> 21:06.810
As I was playing pool
with some friends of mine,

21:06.810 --> 21:10.890
I met a group of wonderful
biologists based in Davis

21:10.890 --> 21:15.480
who happened to need a field
assistant for pelicans surveys.

21:15.480 --> 21:17.849
And I thought, well, I
love birds, you know.

21:17.849 --> 21:19.410
And, you know, I love to be outside,

21:19.410 --> 21:21.480
and this sounds like a great adventure.

21:21.480 --> 21:23.040
And so I said, sure, why not.

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I'll go do some pelicans surveys.

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They're fun birds to watch.

21:30.120 --> 21:31.080
(birds chirping)

21:31.080 --> 21:32.820
They enter their teenage years.

21:32.820 --> 21:35.010
I call them the "gawky years."

21:35.010 --> 21:36.513
They're learning to fly.

21:38.310 --> 21:41.220
The emotion, if there is
such a thing in a pelican.

21:41.220 --> 21:42.604
Okay, okay, now what?

21:42.604 --> 21:43.437
(seals barking)

21:43.437 --> 21:44.749
(water splashing)

21:44.749 --> 21:46.004
(gentle music)

21:46.004 --> 21:48.837
(water splashing)

21:51.082 --> 21:52.289
(seal barking)

21:52.289 --> 21:53.873
(water splashing)

21:53.873 --> 21:56.540
(seals barking)

22:00.480 --> 22:04.890
It's very difficult for
young birds to learn to fish,

22:04.890 --> 22:08.433
and they need calm water and
access to land to do that.

22:10.950 --> 22:14.160
They need to strengthen,
they need to practice.

22:14.160 --> 22:16.353
Like most young animals, they play.

22:17.760 --> 22:20.670
They play house, they play with kelp,

22:20.670 --> 22:22.770
they play with each other.

22:22.770 --> 22:24.720
It's part of their development,

22:24.720 --> 22:26.433
it's practicing for their life.

22:31.980 --> 22:33.570
- [Judy] What does it take to learn

22:33.570 --> 22:36.213
that incredible brown pelican high dive?

22:38.100 --> 22:40.050
- [Laurie] It's all
about being aerodynamic

22:40.050 --> 22:42.600
and reducing impact
when they hit the water

22:42.600 --> 22:44.340
so that they don't injure themselves

22:44.340 --> 22:45.590
in pursuit of their prey.

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Let's say it's a school of anchovies.

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They hone in on it,

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and they fold their wings and
plunge cleanly into the ocean.

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(gentle music)

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(water splashing)

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- [Judy] How do you learn to
do a half twist in the air,

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50 feet up, and then enter
the water like an arrow?

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(water splashing)

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I saw a young pelican try this.

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She's following the adult,
she's copying every move.

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(gentle music continues)

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(water splashing)

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Nice, clean finish.

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But the half twist needs a little work.

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(water splashing)

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The juvenile got some good practice.

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(gentle music continues)
(water splashing)

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The adult got a fish.

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(water sloshing)

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(birds chirping)

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If you're not a seabird biologist,

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how do you arrange your life

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so you can hang out with pelicans?

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(birds chirping)

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- [Monte] Nobody gets
into it for the money.

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And when you're covered in animal feces

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and food all day long, you're
not in it for the glamour.

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(pen scratching)

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(birds chirping)

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It's really proximity to wildlife

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is what's so exciting about the work.

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We don't want them to
become accustomed to us,

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but who wouldn't want to
have a pelican as a buddy?

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(waves crashing)

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(rock music)

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- Oh, yeah.

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- Happy about that?
- Yeah.

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(birds chirping)

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- [Judy] I heard about a couple
who own a health food store

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who actually live with pelicans.

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(lid clanks)

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(hens clucking)
(birds chirping)

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- [Dani] I'm going out there with Toro,

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and just doing physical therapy.

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And all it is is just motion
that he would normally make

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to open up his wing and close his wing,

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and very gently, not pulling on anything,

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not pushing on anything too hard,

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but just keeping movement in that joint

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so that it doesn't freeze up.

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The chances of him being
released are really great.

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(wings whooshing)

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It kind of reminds me
of kids, that, you know,

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they don't want you to wash their face,

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but you gotta do it, and so you do it,

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and they just put up a little fuss

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but then they go right on playing.

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(birds squawking)

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And both of us, Bill and I,

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we go in there to clean,
to feed, to maintain,

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and then we just give them space.

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(footsteps tapping)

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All I'm doing is doing my best

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to create an environment
for them to heal themselves.

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(beak clicking)

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And you know, the healthy
ones that can fly,

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at some point, they're
ready, and they fly,

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and they are out of here.

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(footsteps tapping)

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All three, Chorro, Toro, and Morro,

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they all have injuries to their
wings, in similar condition,

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but just at different rates of healing.

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- [Judy] They all needed long-term care,

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so Dani brought them home
from the wildlife hospital

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where she used to work.

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First, Morro, then Chorro, and Toro.

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- [Dani] Morro is so happy,

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because he gets to be a
pelican with other pelicans.

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- [Judy] I didn't know it at the time,

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but Morro is the pelican I
would get to know the best.

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(footsteps tapping)

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(birds squawking)

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Wish I could have a
pelican in my backyard.

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- [Dani] Morro is definitely the leader.

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When Bill put up these hammocks,

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he decided that was his place.

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That was his new nest.

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(beak clicking)

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Then, they recently
discovered the big woodpile

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that Bill has up by the fence.

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They can see the ocean,
it's a half a mile.

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(birds squawking)
(waves crashing)

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They can hear it,

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and once they're really
strong fliers, whoosh.

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They know where to go.

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(gentle music)

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(wings whooshing)

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(wings whooshing)

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First it was Toro, the young one.

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And I watched him fly to the
ocean, and it was beautiful.

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He never came back.

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Chorro took a little longer,
but he eventually flew also.

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And that left Morro.

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(ducks quacking)

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(wings whooshing)

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I'm sure if he could
fly, he'd be out of here.

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Now he's alone.

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(wings whooshing)

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(ducks quacking)

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But it's amazing because
he's found a new partner.

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(Dani chuckles)

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Bill was starting to remodel the kitchen,

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and one of the things we
always hated was this window,

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and so he removed it and
put in some other windows.

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(birds squawking)

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And until he figured out

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what he wanted to do with that window,

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he just leaned it up against
one of the trees in the yard.

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(birds squawking)

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I remember watching Morro go over,

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because you know, that's
one of the things they do

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is check new things out.

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And he saw that mirror

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and he saw that pelican in that mirror,

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and he immediately just became
obsessed with the mirror.

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(birds chirping)

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(water sloshing)

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(ducks quacking)

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(footsteps tapping)

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(bell ringing)

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(footsteps tapping)

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They really wanna be with their own kind.

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(beak clicking)

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I have hopes

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that he'll be able to
continue to work his way out,

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and that it's maybe something

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that can over time be repaired.

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(footsteps tapping)

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(water sloshing)

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(water sloshes)

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- [Judy] When I love something,

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I tend to think that I know all about it.

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But when I started filming Gigi,

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I couldn't even tell a
young bird from an adult.

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(footsteps tapping)

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I still don't know why she spends half

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the day rearranging her feathers.

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(feathers rustle)

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Monte, how come they preen so much?

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- [Monte] A bird's feathers,

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you know, that's its outer layer.

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That's what it meets the world with.

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And one of the parts of
the world that it meets

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is the cold Pacific Ocean, and that is,

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you know, it's 50 degrees maybe,

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and a bird is 103 degrees, 106 degrees.

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So, just like with us, if
we were to go into the drink

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with no protective gear on,
we wouldn't last very long,

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and neither would a seabird.

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(beak clicking)

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Their feathering is
essentially a dry suit.

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Feathers form a mesh, and
the holes in that mesh

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are smaller than a molecule of water.

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So the water would just
basically form beads

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and run off of it.

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Like, you know, water off a duck's back.

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(feathers rustling)

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But when, if there's a
contaminant, like oil,

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it'll break that mesh apart,

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just like if we punctured
a diver's dry suit,

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cold seawater could
penetrate through that spot,

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so the constant preening is
realigning those feathers

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to keep that seal good.

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(wings whooshing)

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(water splashes)

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We can't really release a bird

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who is not in prime, top condition.

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Living in the wild,

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that's like being an athlete
at the top of your form.

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(gentle music)

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(waves crashing)

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(gentle music continues)

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(waves crashing continues)

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(gentle music continues)

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(waves crashing continues)

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(gentle music continues)

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(water splashing)

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(gentle music continues)

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(water splashing)

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(water sloshing)

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(water sloshing)

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(gentle music continues)

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- [Narrator] A wonderful
bird is the pelican.

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His bill will hold more
than his belly can.

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He can take in his beak
food enough for a week.

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But I'm damned if I see
how the hell he can.

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(birds chirping)

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- [Judy] They've been here for
about 25 million more years

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than we have,

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(water sloshing)

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on every continent except Antarctica.

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White pelicans in
freshwater, browns in salt.

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(birds chirping)

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It's only in the past hundred years or so

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that they've stated running
into real problems, from us.

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(gentle music)

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- [Narrator] There had been
rumors for several years

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that brown pelicans off
the California coast

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were facing extinction because
of reproductive failure.

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(water splashing)

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(pensive music)

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As far as we could see
the nests were normal.

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When we looked inside the nests, however,

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the sight was dismal.

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We found very few whole eggs,

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and the majority of eggs

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which we did find were simply crushed.

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Here's Dr. Risebrough
inspecting one of the eggs.

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And he collected samples,

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which were taken back to his laboratory

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at the University of California

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and analyzed for their content
of DDT and related compounds.

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The levels of DDT that he found

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in the eggs were extremely high.

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(pensive music)

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- [Robert] There must have
been approaching 1,000 nests.

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Only one nest had hatched an egg.

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Complete devastation.

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- [Judy] The source of the
DDT, a synthetic pesticide,

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was traced to a chemical company

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that had been dumping it into
the ocean off Los Angeles

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through the sewage system.

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Brown pelicans were
declared endangered in 1970.

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The following year,

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Montrose was forced to stop ocean dumping,

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and the year after that,

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because DDT was also
harming eagles and falcons

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across the country, it was banned.

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(birds squawking)

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(water sloshing)

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(water sloshing)

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(birds squawking)

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(men chattering)

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- [Dan] E212, B19,

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B111, B112.

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- [Judy] Right after DDT
was banned in the states,

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Dan Anderson, a colleague
of Bob Risebrough's,

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started counting pelicans in Baja

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to compare with the American-born bird,

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because those nesting
islands were still pristine.

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(birds squawking)

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Dan is retired now, but
with his Mexican colleagues,

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every year, he still does the count.

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- [Dan] We call it San
Lorenzo archipelago.

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That's the center of the range

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of the California Brown Pelican.

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Up to 20,000 nests.

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And it gets very hot out there,

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even maybe out in the sun 110.

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(birds squawking)

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We call it gular flutter.

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Gular fluttering is
flapping of the lower pouch.

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It keeps the birds cooler.

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Kind of like a fan.

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(birds squawking)

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During the days when the
birds in southern California

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were being depleted severely by DDT,

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they were getting a
higher than normal number

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of new birds in from Mexico.

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(waves crashing)

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- [Judy] So besides stopping
DDT from going into the ocean,

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it's thanks to Mexico that
California Brown Pelicans

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didn't go extinct.

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(gentle music)

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(truck engine revs)

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With no more DDT, they
made a great recovery.

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And in 2009,

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they were taken off the
endangered species list.

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(wings whooshing)

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But since then,

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a whole new series of problems
have started showing up.

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And we're in it with them.

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- [Monte] Yeah, they're
coming in very strange places.

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But we're starting to get things

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that nobody's ever seen
before all popping up at once.

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There's something weird going
on, right, with pelicans?

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(waves crashing)

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- [Judy] One of those weird
things is climate change.

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(birds squawking)

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Brown pelicans migrate up the
Pacific Coast every summer

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and then they fly back
down south in the fall.

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Sand Island at the border
of Washington and Oregon

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is about as far north as most of them get.

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(waves crashing)

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The summer that I filmed,

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there were 17,000 brown
pelicans on the beach.

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It was like Coney Island for pelicans.

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(birds squawking)
(waves crashing)

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The problem was that it
stayed warm way into the Fall,

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and when they finally did leave,

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the flew smack into an early
snowstorm and got frostbite.

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(wind whooshing)

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Many of them died.

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Most people didn't hear
about the frostbite,

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but everybody heard about the oil spill.

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(pensive music)

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(water sloshing)

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(heart beating)

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(pensive music continues)

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(water sloshing)

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They were actually able
to rescue this bird

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because he couldn't move.

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The ones who were out further,
diving into the oil slick,

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getting contaminated fish
to feed their chicks,

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trying to preen the oil off their feathers

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and getting cold because their
waterproofing was destroyed,

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those were the ones who died

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because nobody could catch them.

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They could still fly.

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(water splashes)

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(feathers rustling)

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Different groups of brown pelicans

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fly along all three of our coasts,

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Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific.

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- [Monte] Here we go.

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Ready, one, two, three.

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- [Judy] Even though
California's brown pelicans

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weren't in the Gulf spill,

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oil spills and ocean pollution
are common along every coast.

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And that's causing problems for fish

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and the birds who depend
on them for survival.

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(birds squawking)

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A few years after brown pelicans
had supposedly recovered,

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biologists saw something that
they'd never seen before.

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(birds squawking)

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Some juveniles started
going after another seabird

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that has also been
endangered, the common murre.

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(birds squawking)

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- [Woman] Oh, there he goes.

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He got one.
- Got one.

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- [Woman] Oh, scrambling.

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- [Judy] This one shook
the chick to get the fish

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its parent had just fed it.

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(birds squawking)

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- [Man] (chuckles) He just wanted a fish.

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(crowd chattering)

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- [Judy] But sometimes the young pelicans

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actually ate the chicks, too.

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(birds squawking)

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They had to be pretty hungry to do that.

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Whether it was overfishing,
ocean pollution,

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climate change, or some
sort of natural cycle,

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it didn't matter much to the pelicans.

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Like Gigi, they were still starving.

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This is what it means to be a
pelican in the 21st century.

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(birds squawking)

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(bell tolling)

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(duck quacking)

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Morro doesn't have the nightmares

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that pelicans face in the wild,

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but he has to stay in the yard.

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With no pelican friends around,

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I noticed that he was starting
to get curious about Festus,

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the duck.

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(duck quacking)

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- Let's see if Morro's interested in food.

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Here you go, Morro.

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Here you go, big guy.

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There you go.

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(duck quacking)
(pelican squawking)

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You know, one thing I admire about animals

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is they can really live in the present.

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They continue with their lives.

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(footsteps tapping)

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(duck quacking)
(pelican squawking)

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- [Dani] We've given him months

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and months and months of rehab,

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and by this time, we realize
now that he can't fly.

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(birds chirping)

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(wings whoosh)

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He had a full year of success in fishing,

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and he was actually a good weight

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when he was found, injured.

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(water sloshes)

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- [Judy] Where was he found?

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- [Dani] He came from a place in Morro Bay

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that's right over there
at those condominium units

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right by the water.

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- [Judy] What do you
think happened to him?

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How did he get hurt?

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- [Dani] I can imagine
that maybe he was diving

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and maybe he pulled his wing in wrong,

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or possibly he hit another bird,

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but almost definitely he was
out there hunting and fishing.

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(boat engine revving)
(birds squawking)

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(water sloshing)

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- [Judy] For millions of years,

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they've been fishing with their own nets.

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It got much more dangerous for
them around 60,000 years ago.

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That's when we started building boats

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and competing with them,

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(boat engine revving)
(water splashing)

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watching the birds to find
out where the fish were.

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(birds squawking)

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- They're smart.

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And they find fish for you.

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You watch where they're going,

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and you know they're diving for live bait,

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anchovies to feed, so that's a good sign

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that there's salmon
chasing the anchovies up,

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so the pelican can see
them with their optic eyes.

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Ha.

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(water splashing)

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- [Fisherman] Hey!

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Get out of here.

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Hey!

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Hey!

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(water splashing)
(fishermen chattering)

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- [Judy] Say there's these three pelicans

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hanging around the line.

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What do you tell people to do?

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- Well, it's important that
you educate your people

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when you're fishing.

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When you tell people to
reel up, we had a big fish,

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a big salmon on it.

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- [Judy] Mm-hmm.

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- In order for that
person to play the fish,

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you got to get your
lines out of the water.

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So you tell 'em to reel up,

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and then you see the
birds come around because,

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you can't blame 'em, they're hungry.

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And they'll go for your bait,

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so in fact I yelled at a customer.

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And I said, "Get that
bait up out of the water."

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And he just got it up in
time because that guy was,

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that pelican was gonna go get that bait.

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(water splashing)

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- [Fisherman] Hold on.

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- [Judy] I was at a fishing pier one day

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when I saw a young pelican grab a line.

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It's in his mouth.

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(crowd chattering)

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Rather than reel in the
bird and remove the hook,

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fishermen sometimes cut the
line, and the bird flies off,

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dragging fishing tackle.

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(waves crashing)

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This one got lucky.

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- I caught a fish and then a young pelican

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just swooped the fish, so
the hook got into his throat.

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- [Melanie] All right,

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we're just going to have to bring scissors

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and start cutting,

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because it's all tangled
around his wings and his neck.

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So see the one on his neck here

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that's going back towards the wing?

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- That one?
- Let's start with that.

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(scissors snap)

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- [Judy] Jeez.

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- [Melanie] So with these,

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let's just cut the line a little bit

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so he doesn't trip himself
or pull it out more.

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(scissors snap)

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There's two here.

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- [Marie] Okay.

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(tool clicks)

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- [Judy] So many pelicans get tangled up

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in fishhooks and fishing line

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that it's one of the most common reasons

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they end up at wildlife hospitals.

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(tool snaps)

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But the troubles don't end
with the bait on the hook.

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- Now you see this, all this here?

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- [Judy] Yeah.

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- You take this, all this,

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'cause he's gonna filet the other side,

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and all this gets peeled
off and is stock for soup.

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The head, the whole, everything.

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Everything's used for soup.

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- [Judy] So, you don't
throw any of it overboard.

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- None, none of it goes overboard.

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(crowd chattering)

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Why throw things away
when these people want it?

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And it's not right for the pelicans.

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(birds squawking)

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- [Judy] Jacky knows better,

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but a lot of fishermen,
after they filet the fish,

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(water splashes)

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throw the rest of it back,
figuring pelicans eat fish.

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But pelicans eat small fish
like sardines and anchovies,

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and they swallow them whole.

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(boat engine revving)

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If they go after fish that
are too big or too bony,

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they can get into real trouble.

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And that's when people like
Monte and Laura come in.

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- [Laura] That one's pouch looks awful.

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(net clicking)

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- [Monte] Nice.

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- [Laura] Good one.

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(group chattering)

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(bird squawking)

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- You got him?

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- Not yet, his head.

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- [Monte] Can you get his body?

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(Monte speaking indistinctly)

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- [Laura] Okay.

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(birds squawking)

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- Yuck.
- Tuna head.

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Tuna head.

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- Gross.
- Yeah.

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Whoo, hoo hoo! (chuckles)

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That's stinky!
- Yeah.

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- [Monte] Let's let this guy go.

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- [Laura] Okay, into the water?

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- [Monte] Yeah, put him in the water.

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(birds squawking)

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(water sloshing)

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- [Laura] Hmm.

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Well, that's looking better. (chuckles)

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There's no way he could
swallow that thing.

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- [Monte] Probably saved his life.

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(pelican thuds)

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- [Judy] If you go after the garbage,

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you get the oil all over you,

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and you lose your water-proofing.

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(water splashing)

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Just like petroleum.

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(gentle music)

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(water splashing)

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- [Monte] I think that as
a wildlife rehabilitator,

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we have to wonder a
couple of things, right?

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We have to say, okay, we bring a bird in,

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and we take care of it,

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and we bring it back to
a relative good health,

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as good as health as
we can determine here.

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And then we release it.

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What are we releasing birds into?

54:57.904 --> 55:02.904
(gentle music)
(water splashing)

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- [Judy] Can you fly, Gigi?

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(wings whooshing)

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(lock clinks)

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- Well, have you seen her fly?

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- [Judy] Not really.

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- Well.

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- [Judy] She just does
these short little hops.

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But she doesn't get up very high.

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- I think I've seen
her up on a high perch,

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but now that I haven't seen it in a while,

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I'm just a little doubtful.

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I'm gonna try and provoke her
into getting up into the air.

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(water splashes)

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I hope I don't disturb her too much.

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Part of our release evaluation

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is if they're up on the high perches.

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(wings whooshing)

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I mean, here comes a guy now.

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She should be able to do
that, fly from perch to perch,

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before we release her.

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(water splashing)
(wings whooshing)

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Oop, that's not fantastic.

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- [Judy] No.

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- When they're capable of flying, they do.

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I mean, it's what they live for.

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(wings whooshing)
(water splashing)

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She's really thin.

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- [Judy] How much does she weigh?

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- 3 1/2 kilograms.

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- [Judy] Uh-oh.

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That's not much, is it?

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- [Monte] They usually weigh
about eight, 10 pounds.

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She's, like, maybe 15%
below what she should be.

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- [Judy] Uh-huh.

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- [Monte] Oh, look.

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Another sample.

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- [Judy] What did you get?

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- Pelican poop.
- Pelican poop.

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- I took a look at that
under the microscope,

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and found a very heavy
load of tape worm eggs.

56:35.763 --> 56:38.100
(water sloshing)

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It's not really serious at all.

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It's just parasites, and
parasites are treatable.

56:43.710 --> 56:45.840
- [Judy] And when will she be released?

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- [Monte] When she is able to fly

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and make this cage look small.

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(water sloshing)

56:52.290 --> 56:55.260
- [Judy] What do you do with
birds that can't be released?

56:55.260 --> 56:58.500
- We don't keep birds
that aren't releasable.

56:58.500 --> 57:00.120
We don't keep them captive.

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Occasionally, we might send a bird,

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place it someplace
where it will be captive

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for the rest of its life.

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And there's a lot of difference of opinion

57:15.540 --> 57:17.740
on whether or not that's
a good thing to do.

57:21.690 --> 57:24.120
- [Judy] Yeah, but what
would be the alternative?

57:24.120 --> 57:27.150
I mean, if you can't keep them?

57:27.150 --> 57:29.013
- Euthanasia.
- Oh.

57:30.360 --> 57:32.160
- I mean, if they're not releasable.

57:35.880 --> 57:38.730
Two main things that a
pelican has to be able do do.

57:38.730 --> 57:41.760
It has to be able to see,
and it has to be able to fly.

57:41.760 --> 57:43.198
And I mean fly well.

57:43.198 --> 57:45.532
(seagulls cawing)

57:45.532 --> 57:48.199
(pensive music)

57:53.468 --> 57:56.218
(waves crashing)

57:57.452 --> 58:00.202
(water splashes)

58:03.269 --> 58:06.019
(water splashes)

58:12.879 --> 58:15.789
(water splashing)

58:15.789 --> 58:19.289
(pensive music continues)

58:28.710 --> 58:30.990
- [Judy] When Morro
came in with his injury,

58:30.990 --> 58:32.583
how did you decide what to do?

58:33.570 --> 58:35.880
- [Dani] He probably
would have been euthanized

58:35.880 --> 58:39.243
had it been an open fracture
and the bone had been exposed.

58:40.860 --> 58:43.743
Given that the injury was to his joint,

58:44.640 --> 58:48.102
he still would have
normally been euthanized.

58:48.102 --> 58:49.800
(water splashing)

58:49.800 --> 58:54.633
But I thought, why not
see if he has a chance?

58:56.460 --> 58:58.893
It didn't ultimately work out for him.

58:59.760 --> 59:02.730
But it did work out in the long run

59:02.730 --> 59:04.710
for him to at least be able to stay alive

59:04.710 --> 59:06.110
even though he couldn't fly.

59:10.560 --> 59:13.140
We're beginning to look at two options.

59:13.140 --> 59:16.080
The one option would
be to go to like a zoo,

59:16.080 --> 59:18.333
where they live as an exhibit bird.

59:20.160 --> 59:22.920
We lost out within days of sending him

59:22.920 --> 59:24.000
to the Santa Barbara Zoo,

59:24.000 --> 59:26.610
which is apparently a
really nice facility,

59:26.610 --> 59:30.423
but they got another pelican,
and so they couldn't take him.

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I tried WildCare because I heard

59:35.610 --> 59:38.592
that they were looking for
an educational pelican.

59:38.592 --> 59:39.724
- Ready?

59:39.724 --> 59:42.600
Easy, easy, easy, easy.
(wings whooshing)

59:42.600 --> 59:44.460
- [Dani] To join with their white pelican

59:44.460 --> 59:47.523
that they already have for
their educational program.

59:48.420 --> 59:50.280
- [Mary] It's all right.

59:50.280 --> 59:51.780
- And so I called,

59:51.780 --> 59:54.570
and they said that they
were already considering

59:54.570 --> 59:55.833
another brown pelican.

59:57.098 --> 01:00:00.000
(birds squawking)

01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.740
- What do you think?

01:00:01.740 --> 01:00:02.883
Winter, be nice.

01:00:06.450 --> 01:00:09.421
- [Dani] And so, Morro
couldn't go there either.

01:00:09.421 --> 01:00:12.421
(footsteps tapping)

01:00:18.720 --> 01:00:21.630
- [Judy] There was one
place he could go, though,

01:00:21.630 --> 01:00:23.227
that he hadn't explored yet.

01:00:26.643 --> 01:00:29.310
(beak thudding)

01:00:36.028 --> 01:00:36.861
- Come on.

01:00:38.415 --> 01:00:39.873
(door clatters)

01:00:39.873 --> 01:00:41.540
Oh, he's opening it.

01:00:55.929 --> 01:00:57.512
Look at him, honey.

01:01:02.361 --> 01:01:05.528
- [Bill] It's like he's investigating.

01:01:08.782 --> 01:01:11.532
(birds chirping)

01:01:16.077 --> 01:01:18.656
(cat thuds)

01:01:18.656 --> 01:01:19.869
(cat meows)

01:01:19.869 --> 01:01:21.393
(Bill chuckles)

01:01:21.393 --> 01:01:24.009
(beak thuds)

01:01:24.009 --> 01:01:27.009
(footsteps tapping)

01:01:31.665 --> 01:01:36.665
(duck quacking)
(birds chirping)

01:01:42.949 --> 01:01:45.699
(fire crackling)

01:01:58.530 --> 01:02:01.950
This is total, unfamiliar territory.

01:02:01.950 --> 01:02:03.960
It's kind of like us being on the moon.

01:02:05.354 --> 01:02:08.104
(fire crackling)

01:02:12.592 --> 01:02:15.259
(duck quacking)

01:02:19.600 --> 01:02:22.600
(footsteps tapping)

01:02:26.471 --> 01:02:29.138
(duck quacking)

01:02:30.064 --> 01:02:33.064
(footsteps tapping)

01:02:36.063 --> 01:02:38.730
(Dani chuckles)

01:02:41.522 --> 01:02:44.272
(fire crackling)

01:02:52.665 --> 01:02:55.184
You see him learn the first time through,

01:02:55.184 --> 01:02:56.525
and the second time.

01:02:56.525 --> 01:02:59.525
(footsteps tapping)

01:03:16.471 --> 01:03:19.471
(footsteps tapping)

01:03:27.539 --> 01:03:30.060
(wings whooshing)

01:03:30.060 --> 01:03:32.670
This one particular pelican

01:03:32.670 --> 01:03:36.993
I have a personal relationship
with, as does my wife.

01:03:38.190 --> 01:03:42.063
And it does grow over time.

01:03:43.380 --> 01:03:47.460
And (chuckles) the thought
of him leaving our home

01:03:47.460 --> 01:03:49.873
actually creates a sadness in me.

01:03:50.884 --> 01:03:53.551
(pensive music)

01:03:55.520 --> 01:03:58.353
(water splashing)

01:04:01.145 --> 01:04:03.728
(gentle music)

01:04:31.324 --> 01:04:34.741
(gentle music continues)

01:04:38.485 --> 01:04:40.080
(wings whooshing)

01:04:40.080 --> 01:04:41.330
- [Judy] All right, Gigi.

01:04:45.511 --> 01:04:48.344
(wings whooshing)

01:04:56.739 --> 01:04:58.406
- [Monte] Good girl.

01:04:59.312 --> 01:05:00.240
(clip clicks)

01:05:00.240 --> 01:05:01.800
- [Judy] So that's just a temporary band?

01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:03.803
- [Monte] Yeah, this is a temporary band.

01:05:05.250 --> 01:05:09.630
So this is a band that
will last her whole life.

01:05:09.630 --> 01:05:11.580
- [Judy] How long do they live?

01:05:11.580 --> 01:05:14.430
- [Monte] I've heard that the
oldest pelican known is 42.

01:05:20.126 --> 01:05:22.650
(clips clinking)

01:05:22.650 --> 01:05:23.523
And there she is.

01:05:24.568 --> 01:05:27.540
(footsteps tapping)

01:05:27.540 --> 01:05:32.178
You know, I've never
really called P193 Gigi.

01:05:32.178 --> 01:05:33.480
(door clatters)

01:05:33.480 --> 01:05:37.770
The bird we were calling P193 is herself.

01:05:37.770 --> 01:05:38.780
Take care.

01:05:38.780 --> 01:05:41.447
(door clatters)

01:05:43.530 --> 01:05:45.630
- [Judy] Monte didn't come to the release.

01:05:47.040 --> 01:05:49.990
He said he had a lot of other
birds he had to take care of.

01:05:50.867 --> 01:05:54.117
(cart wheels rattling)

01:05:54.994 --> 01:05:58.494
(vehicle engines revving)

01:06:06.210 --> 01:06:08.100
The bird I still call Gigi

01:06:08.100 --> 01:06:10.590
had become a bit of a celebrity by now,

01:06:10.590 --> 01:06:12.660
and there were some special volunteers

01:06:12.660 --> 01:06:13.833
who wanted to help out.

01:06:14.940 --> 01:06:18.300
- This pelican here came up
and flew into the bridge,

01:06:18.300 --> 01:06:21.060
and our bridge security and ourselves,

01:06:21.060 --> 01:06:24.750
we caught it and essentially rescued him.

01:06:24.750 --> 01:06:29.750
- We've seen wildlife, coyotes,
raccoons, skunks, birds.

01:06:30.690 --> 01:06:33.930
- A week before I saw
an animal control person

01:06:33.930 --> 01:06:35.040
on the bridge.

01:06:35.040 --> 01:06:37.200
She put a towel over the eyes.

01:06:37.200 --> 01:06:38.460
That's where I got the idea

01:06:38.460 --> 01:06:40.650
of putting a towel over the bird's eyes,

01:06:40.650 --> 01:06:43.150
'cause then they can't see
the danger around them.

01:06:46.292 --> 01:06:47.125
- [Bill] You want me to carry him out?

01:06:47.125 --> 01:06:47.958
- [Dani] Yeah.

01:06:50.970 --> 01:06:52.230
Okay.

01:06:52.230 --> 01:06:53.790
I'll open the gate for you.

01:06:53.790 --> 01:06:57.180
I was dreading having to take him out

01:06:57.180 --> 01:06:58.743
and show him to people.

01:07:01.890 --> 01:07:04.260
- [Judy] Dani had been
looking for a place for Morro

01:07:04.260 --> 01:07:05.313
for a long time.

01:07:06.180 --> 01:07:07.350
But then she found out

01:07:07.350 --> 01:07:10.770
that as a licensed wildlife rehabilitator

01:07:10.770 --> 01:07:14.163
she could keep him if she
got him an education permit.

01:07:15.900 --> 01:07:17.460
- [Bystander] What happened to him?

01:07:17.460 --> 01:07:22.460
- [Dani] He had an injury to
his left wing and he can't fly.

01:07:22.669 --> 01:07:24.840
(bystanders chattering)

01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:29.640
And so now, he goes out and
teaches adults and children

01:07:29.640 --> 01:07:31.323
about brown pelicans.

01:07:32.881 --> 01:07:34.770
- [Child 1] Is his head soft?

01:07:34.770 --> 01:07:35.940
- [Dani] His head is very soft.

01:07:35.940 --> 01:07:37.530
Doesn't it look like velvet?

01:07:37.530 --> 01:07:38.760
- [Child 2] Can it swim?

01:07:38.760 --> 01:07:41.040
- [Dani] Yes, he can swim,
and he has a pool at home.

01:07:41.040 --> 01:07:42.870
- He can hold water right here, right?

01:07:42.870 --> 01:07:44.940
- Yes, they can hold two
to three gallons of water

01:07:44.940 --> 01:07:46.230
in that pouch.

01:07:46.230 --> 01:07:49.260
And what they do is they dive,
they do that plunge dive,

01:07:49.260 --> 01:07:51.180
they get the fish, they come up,

01:07:51.180 --> 01:07:53.550
and they put their head down,
and the water drains out,

01:07:53.550 --> 01:07:56.010
and then they put their
head up, their beak up,

01:07:56.010 --> 01:07:57.510
and then the fish go down.

01:07:57.510 --> 01:07:59.310
Really good, efficient system.

01:07:59.310 --> 01:08:00.760
What, do you want to go home?

01:08:01.650 --> 01:08:03.123
Are we ready to go, honey?

01:08:03.980 --> 01:08:06.596
(cage clatter)

01:08:06.596 --> 01:08:08.190
(birds squawking)

01:08:08.190 --> 01:08:09.480
Oh, Morro, Morro, Morro.

01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:10.943
You can't wait to get out, huh?

01:08:12.631 --> 01:08:16.134
(zipper rasping)

01:08:16.134 --> 01:08:18.967
(birds squawking)

01:08:22.059 --> 01:08:24.726
(Bill chuckles)

01:08:25.607 --> 01:08:29.524
(birds squawking and clucking)

01:08:38.270 --> 01:08:41.823
He can't be released, but I
still respect that he's wild.

01:08:44.850 --> 01:08:49.530
He comes home, he starts behaving
in his exact, normal way.

01:08:49.530 --> 01:08:54.530
It hasn't ruined his day
completely. (chuckles)

01:08:55.308 --> 01:08:58.498
(beak clicking)

01:08:58.498 --> 01:09:01.050
(footsteps tapping)

01:09:01.050 --> 01:09:03.090
- [Judy] Even though
Morro only has to go out

01:09:03.090 --> 01:09:04.710
and teach once a month,

01:09:04.710 --> 01:09:07.380
he still has to get used to other people.

01:09:07.380 --> 01:09:08.790
So, Dani started letting

01:09:08.790 --> 01:09:11.523
my husband Mark and me
get a little closer.

01:09:13.200 --> 01:09:17.762
- So, you're all set, do you
want to just feed him a little?

01:09:17.762 --> 01:09:19.680
(footsteps tapping)

01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:20.513
- Morro?

01:09:21.510 --> 01:09:24.240
- [Judy] Mark knows the wild
parrots in San Francisco,

01:09:24.240 --> 01:09:25.666
where we live.

01:09:25.666 --> 01:09:26.499
- You want some?

01:09:26.499 --> 01:09:29.373
- [Judy] But until Morro,
he'd never known a pelican.

01:09:36.102 --> 01:09:36.935
(beak clicks)

01:09:36.935 --> 01:09:39.394
(Mark chuckles)

01:09:39.394 --> 01:09:42.562
(fish thuds)

01:09:42.562 --> 01:09:45.312
(birds chirping)

01:09:47.220 --> 01:09:51.273
So, he has a pretty good job
and a great place to live.

01:09:52.860 --> 01:09:55.083
But he still doesn't
have a pelican friend.

01:09:57.420 --> 01:09:59.883
Dani put the word out to
the wildlife hospital.

01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:04.530
A young bird came in with a
wing injury, which healed up,

01:10:04.530 --> 01:10:06.363
and he flew away back to freedom,

01:10:07.440 --> 01:10:09.903
which was good for the bird.

01:10:13.740 --> 01:10:16.140
Then an older bird arrived,

01:10:16.140 --> 01:10:18.393
and Morro started speaking pelican to him.

01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:22.263
(gentle music)

01:10:25.574 --> 01:10:28.574
(pelicans grunting)

01:10:35.489 --> 01:10:38.156
(pelican thuds)

01:10:39.796 --> 01:10:42.796
(pelicans grunting)

01:10:44.160 --> 01:10:46.713
But that bird's wing injury was so bad,

01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:52.233
he'd be in such pain that
he had to be euthanized.

01:10:55.024 --> 01:10:57.607
(gentle music)

01:11:01.564 --> 01:11:04.564
(footsteps tapping)

01:11:06.108 --> 01:11:08.941
(wings whooshing)

01:11:11.970 --> 01:11:13.923
So Morro lives his life,

01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:17.493
tolerating what comes and what goes,

01:11:19.620 --> 01:11:23.567
not totally captive, but
not really free either.

01:11:25.228 --> 01:11:26.645
Like a lot of us.

01:11:30.544 --> 01:11:33.377
(water splashing)

01:11:36.604 --> 01:11:39.521
(crowd chattering)

01:11:41.668 --> 01:11:42.940
(car door thuds)

01:11:42.940 --> 01:11:44.107
Goodbye, Gigi.

01:11:46.192 --> 01:11:51.192
(footsteps tapping)
(crowd chattering)

01:12:02.120 --> 01:12:04.655
(cage thuds)

01:12:04.655 --> 01:12:08.043
(crowd chattering)

01:12:08.043 --> 01:12:11.210
(cage locks clicking)

01:12:13.178 --> 01:12:18.178
(crowd cheering)
(water splashing)

01:12:19.830 --> 01:12:22.210
- He's at home here, he don't wanna leave.

01:12:22.210 --> 01:12:24.460
(crowd chattering)

01:12:24.460 --> 01:12:25.543
- [Woman] Oh.

01:12:27.711 --> 01:12:31.711
(crowd chattering and laughing)

01:12:32.810 --> 01:12:34.334
(soft music)

01:12:34.334 --> 01:12:38.762
(crowd cheering and chattering)

01:12:38.762 --> 01:12:41.595
(water splashing)

01:12:44.090 --> 01:12:45.433
- [Child] Yay.

01:12:45.433 --> 01:12:48.100
(Judy chuckles)

01:12:49.408 --> 01:12:52.158
(water sloshing)

01:12:56.280 --> 01:12:58.710
- [Judy] As soon as she
swam out to the group,

01:12:58.710 --> 01:12:59.883
I lost track of her.

01:13:01.161 --> 01:13:02.490
(water splashing)

01:13:02.490 --> 01:13:05.493
And that was the last I ever saw of Gigi.

01:13:07.122 --> 01:13:09.705
(gentle music)

01:13:17.970 --> 01:13:21.153
She's back in her own
wild, nameless world.

01:13:23.130 --> 01:13:24.273
I hope she's okay.

01:13:29.016 --> 01:13:31.766
(waves crashing)

01:13:37.234 --> 01:13:40.651
(gentle music continues)

01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:44.493
They don't look like flying
dinosaurs to me anymore.

01:13:47.160 --> 01:13:49.293
I can tell the adults from the young ones.

01:13:51.120 --> 01:13:53.253
They look like fellow beings,

01:13:54.120 --> 01:13:56.733
as conscious and individual as we are.

01:14:02.677 --> 01:14:03.870
(waves crashing)

01:14:03.870 --> 01:14:04.703
Calm,

01:14:07.597 --> 01:14:08.430
(gentle music continues)

01:14:08.430 --> 01:14:09.263
resilient,

01:14:12.690 --> 01:14:14.073
fully alive.

01:14:16.475 --> 01:14:19.225
(waves crashing)

01:14:20.941 --> 01:14:23.691
(peaceful music)

01:14:46.441 --> 01:14:50.233
(waves crashing continues)

01:14:50.233 --> 01:14:53.816
(peaceful music continues)

01:14:57.990 --> 01:14:59.733
I had another flying dream.

01:15:03.570 --> 01:15:05.313
It's been a long, long time.

01:15:08.160 --> 01:15:09.303
They did that for me.

01:15:14.100 --> 01:15:17.433
I asked an avian veterinarian
if pelicans dream.

01:15:18.660 --> 01:15:20.463
He said, "Yes, of course.

01:15:21.840 --> 01:15:25.090
We aren't the only
creatures who have dreams."

01:15:26.804 --> 01:15:29.387
(gentle music)

01:15:55.238 --> 01:15:56.927
(water splashes)

01:15:56.927 --> 01:16:00.344
(gentle music continues)

01:16:10.643 --> 01:16:13.393
(waves crashing)

01:16:29.713 --> 01:16:32.296
(gentle music)

01:16:37.095 --> 01:16:39.845
(waves crashing)

01:16:59.222 --> 01:17:02.639
(gentle music continues)

01:17:07.335 --> 01:17:10.085
(waves crashing)

01:17:29.774 --> 01:17:33.191
(gentle music continues)

01:17:37.335 --> 01:17:40.918
(waves crashing continues)

01:17:59.518 --> 01:18:02.935
(gentle music continues)

01:18:07.422 --> 01:18:11.005
(waves crashing continues)

01:18:13.990 --> 01:18:16.800
- [Narrator] There was this pelican, see.

01:18:16.800 --> 01:18:18.090
Walks into a bar.

01:18:18.090 --> 01:18:20.197
The barman looks him up and down and says,

01:18:20.197 --> 01:18:22.647
"So, why the long face?"

01:18:23.928 --> 01:18:26.678
(waves crashing)