Geloven in natuurlijke selectie is iets anders dan het te moeten aanzien.
State rescues pelicans in Southern Maryland that failed to migrate for winter.
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RIDGE, MD - JANUARY 8: Maryland Department of Natural Resources and local wildlife rehabilitators
are trying to capture and rescue a group of freezing brown pelicans that failed to migrate last
year from Ridge, MD on January 8, 2010. In recent years the pelicans have failed to leave. Some
speculate that they are feeding on fish from a nearby stream thru November. About 15 pelicans
have died from the weather here and those that are rescued are sent to Tri State Bird Rescue in
Delaware. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post). StaffPhoto imported to Merlin on Fri
Jan 8 14:25:05 2010 (Linda Davidson - Post)
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By David A. FahrentholdWashington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 9, 2010
This is the lesson of the frozen pelicans of Southern Maryland:
It is one thing to believe in natural selection.
It is another thing to watch it.
This week, as a curtain of bitter cold descended on the region, about 40 brown pelicans were
spotted -- starving, freezing and in danger of dying -- on a wind-blasted shoreline in St. Mary's
County. They weren't supposed to be there: The birds, relatively new arrivals on the Chesapeake
Bay, usually migrate south to escape mid-Atlantic winters.
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zie artikel in Washington Post :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803717.html?hpid=topnews&sub=AR
State rescues pelicans in Southern Maryland that failed to migrate for winter.
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RIDGE, MD - JANUARY 8: Maryland Department of Natural Resources and local wildlife rehabilitators
are trying to capture and rescue a group of freezing brown pelicans that failed to migrate last
year from Ridge, MD on January 8, 2010. In recent years the pelicans have failed to leave. Some
speculate that they are feeding on fish from a nearby stream thru November. About 15 pelicans
have died from the weather here and those that are rescued are sent to Tri State Bird Rescue in
Delaware. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post). StaffPhoto imported to Merlin on Fri
Jan 8 14:25:05 2010 (Linda Davidson - Post)
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By David A. FahrentholdWashington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 9, 2010
This is the lesson of the frozen pelicans of Southern Maryland:
It is one thing to believe in natural selection.
It is another thing to watch it.
This week, as a curtain of bitter cold descended on the region, about 40 brown pelicans were
spotted -- starving, freezing and in danger of dying -- on a wind-blasted shoreline in St. Mary's
County. They weren't supposed to be there: The birds, relatively new arrivals on the Chesapeake
Bay, usually migrate south to escape mid-Atlantic winters.
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zie artikel in Washington Post :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803717.html?hpid=topnews&sub=AR