Missing Pelicans

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that they have lost track of 27,000 American White Pelicans that abandoned a nesting colony at Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota, in late May. Thus far, all efforts to account for the missing birds or to explain their sudden disappearance have proven futile. More details are provided in this article from the Bismarck Tribune. This is a real wildlife mystery!