Brown pelicans soar over the beach in Port Aransas on a recent day. The species is a common one in Port Aransas today, but it wasn’t always like that. The brown pelican population plummeted throughout the U.S. in the 1950s due to the pesticide DDT. The poison later was banned in America, and the brown pelican was placed on the […]
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