Add ailments like bird flu and pelican wings snapped (seemingly on purpose) to all the new homes displacing wildlife habitat, and you get a perfect storm of feathered, fuzzy and increasingly needy ...

This individual(s) grabs the pelican by the wings ... some type of proof or evidence like filming,” said the rescue. According to the EPA, harming a migratory bird or federally protected bird ...

A pelican is recovering at the New Mexico Wildlife Center after Santa Fe police and animal services rescued the injured bird last week.