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Title: Not your Normal NW bird
Post by: Goldeneye on January 07, 2013, 08:06:45 PM: This guy was flying up and down the river for a few days while my dad and I were plunking for steelhead. He would land occasionally and walk the sand bars. One morning after it froze we found him frozen to death. I contacted my local taxidermist and he did not want to see it unless I got it cleared by Fish & Game. I called fish & Game, they instructed me this is a federal bird, though the biologist had never seen one up here. I asked them if they wanted it and they said yes. This is a Peruvian Pelican. The biologist thought he may have been blown in with a storm system and got lost. Anyways, thought I'd share a picture of a pretty cool bird.
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Post by: wadu1 on January 07, 2013, 08:12:59 PM: Cool looking bird, sorry you did not get to keep him/her
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Post by: deaner on January 07, 2013, 08:13:58 PM: pretty cool looking, shame you werent able to have it mounted. if its a bird that cant even survive here, and is only here from some random accident, kinda messed up the state gets to take it from you.
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Post by: MrsTurkeyFeather on January 07, 2013, 08:15:28 PM: Wow, that is cool...hopefully they'll do something more than just toss it in the garbage.
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Post by: denali on January 07, 2013, 11:39:46 PM: wow, what find, cool you got to see it cruising the river alive.
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Post by: Scottystyle on January 08, 2013, 12:11:12 AM: Frozen alive ? Just standing like that? :yike: Cool looking bird though :tup:
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Post by: Goldeneye on January 08, 2013, 09:31:30 AM: Quote from: Scottystyle on January 08, 2013, 12:11:12 AM
Frozen alive ? Just standing like that? :yike: Cool looking bird though :tup:

No he was alive at this point. He died a couple days later. He was fairly docile...
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Post by: h20hunter on January 08, 2013, 09:47:01 AM: To bad about the birdie....any luck on the chromies?
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Post by: Goldeneye on January 08, 2013, 09:54:04 AM: Caught 7 over the holiday while fishing with my father. That's enough winter steel for now. Time for me to get back to bird hunting.
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Post by: Moose-head on January 08, 2013, 10:01:46 AM: Cool bird and a good call by your taxidermist
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Post by: boneaddict on January 08, 2013, 11:32:41 AM: Wow, Interesting find
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on January 08, 2013, 11:57:09 AM: I think he made the news ...I heard something about an unusual bird along some river but I did not make it to the TV quick enough ...CRAZY !!!!!!!!
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Post by: James on January 08, 2013, 12:22:40 PM: Are you sure that’s not a Brown Pelican? There are tons of those on the coast, and they occasionally show up in the Puget Sound region.

Flying solo makes it seem like life dealt him a bad deal and he wasn’t able to bluff his way out of it.
Title: Re: Not your Normal NW bird
Post by: Goldeneye on January 08, 2013, 12:45:37 PM: Quote from: James on January 08, 2013, 12:22:40 PM
Are you sure that’s not a Brown Pelican? There are tons of those on the coast, and they occasionally show up in the Puget Sound region.

The Biologist didn't think it was a brown. Could have been I suppose. It was a protected bird either way.
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Post by: BLDtraLR on January 09, 2013, 09:30:16 PM: :tup: :tup: