Brown Pelican unhooked, Chatfield, Douglas

[Hugh Kingery]

    Here's a part of the Brown Pelican story that we didn't know. Tiffany Hansen emailed Denver Audubon about her adventure with the bird.

    On Saturday, April 16, just before 4 p.m., she kayaked over to watch an eagle and discovered the Brown Pelican at water level tangled up in a fishing line and lure. She paddled over and docked her kayak on the fallen tree.

    "A good amount of line was tangled on the fallen tree in the water and still connected to the lure. The lure had two hooks with 3 barbs each. One of the hooks was stuck in the outer elbow of the wing. The other was stuck in 2 places - one in its lower eyelid, the other in the roof of its upper bill."

        She backed the barb out of the eyelid, then pulled out the one from its bill. Then the pelican tried to flee, but then first she had to extract the line from the bird's wing.

    Once she did that, the pelican flew away and landed 50 yards away on the water.

    What an heroic effort!

Hugh

[rosanne juergens]

Fantastic work by Tiffany Hansen! I guess this was after it had been seen at Cherry Creek SP in the morning of the 16th.

Rosanne Juergens

Centennial

[Deborah Carstensen]

Incredible! Please thank her for us! Job well done.

Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county 

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[Mikele Painter]

Hooray Tiffany! SO glad you were able to fix that situation.

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