Some of you may recall Byron's post a week or so ago about "Ralph", an American Pelican caught at a strip club in Nova Scotia.
Ralph is an immature Brown Pelican who was apparently blown off course by a hurricane a few months ago and found himself far from home.
Ralph has been taken in by Hope For Wildlife, an animal rescue center near Halifax but he needs to get home so he can learn to be a pelican. An animal rescue center in North Carolina has agreed to take him. All would seem to be well, but US Customs authorities at Halifax International Airport will not clear Ralph and his minders to board a commercial flight to the USA.
To get home, Ralph the pelican must rely on kindness of strangers - Front - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Here's where a Pelican might be able to help. Ralph, through some bureaucratic Catch 22 can be cleared by customs on US soil. So if he can be transported privately to a US Port Of Entry. he can continue to North Carolina.
How about it? Are any Pelicans with access to a private aircraft in a position to transport a big brown bird and two handlers from Nova Scotia to a port on the Eastern Seaboard? If so, please contact:
info@hopeforwildlife.net
or call them at (902) 407 WILD
Thank you
Les