Subject: Pelican Invasion, population expansion or el nino excursion
Date: Oct 13 08:56:23 1997
From: Michael Kennedy - mkennedy at waypt.com


With all the pelican sightings, many people are implicating El Nino. Is
there clear evidence for this? Certainly warmer water and some other
species lingering behavior seem to say it is involved, but is this a big
leap for the pelicans. Does anyone know about the population status over
the last few years on the Washington coast? Is this possibly as much the
continuation of range expansion, as it is El Nino?

Michael Kennedy <mkennedy at waypt.com>
Port Townsend, WA, USA