Pelicans are starving and dying along California coastline [Video]

A surge of injured and starving pelicans are showing up at wildlife centers in California and those that don’t make it are dying in high numbers. 

Since April 20, an “unusually high number” of the water birds have been arriving at wildlife rehabilitation centers along the Santa Cruz to San Diego coastlines,  according to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The pelicans are extremely emaciated, cold and anemic and some have secondary injuries. 

The state Department of Fish and Game is doing postmortem exams to assess the ongoing situation, but wildlife experts seem to believe they are dying of starvation.

Specifically, International Bird Rescue said that roughly 250 pelicans have arrived at the International Bird League’s rescue centers in Los Angeles and Fairfield in the last three weeks, with at least 40% of them showing significant injuries they’ve received from getting entangled in fishing lines and hooks.

Scientists believe the pelicans are getting tangled up in …