Pelicans blown off course by Sandy get plane ride home

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Pelicans blown off course by Sandy get plane ride home

(Reuters) - Two brown pelicans blown to Rhode Island by the winds of Hurricane Sandy will be flown in a private plane back to their natural habitat in Florida, an animal clinic worker said on Friday. The first of the large birds, whose wingspans measure 6 to 7 feet (about 2 metres), was found on the side of a road at Fishermen's Memorial State Park on November 7, nine days after the storm made landfall in New Jersey, said Jennifer Brooks, clinic director at the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island. ...

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