October 15/20014

(E.B.W.) Critter Corner  

                                                

Feature:

Pelican Pancho prefers people

           “HAVANA- Pancho the pelican apparently prefers the company of humans to his own kind, & the grit of the big city to a life spent soaring through the breeze above the Caribbean Sea.

           ‘When I saw him, it was love at first sight,’ said Magela Guerrero, Pancho’s 32- year- old adopted ‘mom’, of whom he’s fiercely protective.

           The bird came into her family’s life in 2011 when a neighbor fishing along Havana’s Malecon seawall found Pancho near death…the neighbor brought the pelican to her door.

           Guerrero nursed him through…an unlikely recovery.

           Pancho’s plumage has long since recovered its silky brown luster & he’s strong enough to flap his wings vigorously, but…he never rejoined his brothers & sisters at sea.

           Guerrero repeatedly tried to reintroduce Pancho into the wild…but he ignored other pelicans flying past.”

Andrea Rodriguez

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Gazette, Montreal

Sept. 7/2013

  

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