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Drought helps North America's largest white pelican refuge

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Abnormally dry weather has been a boon to American white pelicans nesting on a North Dakota island known as North America's largest refuge for the big-billed birds. Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge manager Neil Shook says the dry spell appears to have curbed years of wet weather and surging water levels that threatened to swamp the main nesting island at the refuge. Shook says island has shrunk by half in recent years, to 12 acres. He says the big birds still have plenty of nesting room.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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