syringe-feeding-a-brown-pelican
Rehabilitators syringe feeding a previously oiled brown pelican inside of an outdoor aviary. Syringe feeding a liquid diet provided extra hydration and ensured they were receiving an adequate amount of calories needed until they began picking up food on their own. Because many of the oiled, in processed brown pelicans were juvenile (less than year old), they hadn’t yet developed the ability to hunt for their own food and still depended on feeding from their parents.