Texas Fauna Project

Brown Pelican

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Sharon Schmalz is the founder of the Wildlife Center of Texas. In the course of her work, she has worked on rehabilitating 1000 of creatures, including over 385 species of sick, injured and abandoned animals. Here she recalls an incident in 2014, when over 100 young brown pelicans were brought in from Galveston Bay, where they had ingested hooks, lures and fishing lines.