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California brown pelican may be headed for extinction
Copley News Service describes how California's brown pelican faces possible extinction due to DDT. State park ranger James M. Fife cites nest failures since 1961 at Bird Island Point Lobos and rising eggshell weakness linked to DDT, with hatch rates plummeting from 600 nests to single-digit successes by 1970 71.
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Copley News
Point Lobos
Calif
Golden State
Gramps
James M. Fife
State Park
Ranger
Monterey
California
Fife
Bird Island
Alan Baldridge
Get Hopkins Marine Station
Pacific Grove
Audubon Society
Pelicans
Anacapa Island
Santa Barbara