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PELICAN SLAUGHTER AT SUNSHINE COAST

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Subject: PELICAN SLAUGHTER AT SUNSHINE COAST
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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 21:40:10 +1000
From Desley Williams, presently holidaying at the Sunshine Coast.
 
I refer to birding-aus message on 22 April 2002 titled "Pelican Mulitation Qld - Lake Samsonvale".  I now report some sad news regarding the Sunshine Coast's pelican population; perhaps the Samsonvale mutilation and the Sunshine Coast mutilation are connected.            Two pelicans are dead after a depraved attack in which at least one bird was tied to a car by its beak and dragged along the road.  Volunteers from the Sunshine Coast Seabird Rescue Group found the dead pelican near a Warana construction site with cuts to its feet and rope tied around its beak.  A second pelican was spotted on a canal; when the rescuers reached the bird they found it bloodied and unable to fly.  Suffering two broken legs it was put down at a local vet surgery.  The Rescue Group's secretary, Ailsa Watson was sickened by the attacks which she suspects could have been linked.  "If the sick one had broken legs, they could have tied it to the car by its legs and done the same thing as they did to the other."  She said both pelicans were probably older ones because, being unfamiliar with people, younger ones were harder to catch.  Two businesses: Environmental Protection Services and Bill's Boat Hire have each contritubuted $500 towards the reward for the Warana attacks. 
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