NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Louisiana brown pelican, rescued following the 2010 BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, seemed determined to find its way home after being released in Georgia.

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Inkey recently visited a brown pelican-nesting habitat along the Louisiana coast. Hundreds of the birds lived together in nests about 6 feet high in mangrove trees along the shore.

The Brown Pelican is not only the Louisiana state bird. It’s also a survivor. At times we take these pelicans for granted. They fly along with us as we drive the Causeway Bridge between Metairie ...

BATON ROUGE -- Four decades after widespread pesticide use made it virtually extinct, the brown pelican has returned to Louisiana in such numbers that federal authorities proposed Friday that ...

A Brown Pelican, the Louisiana state bird, makes a reach for its nest on one of the few barrier islands in Barataria Bay that still supports black mangroves on Thursday, April 10, 2014.

The oil spill puts Louisiana's brown pelican at particular risk because it dives beneath the water's surface to forage. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer.

More than ten years after being released in Georgia, a Brown Pelican rescued from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill has been spotted in Louisiana. According to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife ...

Louisiana's state bird, brown pelican, imperiled by oil . May 19, 2010 at 2:11 p.m. | Updated May 19, 2010 at 2:11 p.m.

Well, part of the answer can be found in the fact that Louisiana didn't proclaim the brown pelican its state bird until 1966, 54 years after the flag was in place.

CALIFORNIA BAY, La. -- Hounded by hunters and fishermen, driven to near-extinction by chemical pollution, the brown pelican has survived a century of human abuse -- only to face another challenge ...