{"id":6242,"date":"2014-01-02T06:43:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2022-12-31T03:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:24:37","slug":"seabird-entanglement-in-monofilament-fishing-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/seabird-entanglement-in-monofilament-fishing-line.html","title":{"rendered":"Seabird Entanglement in Monofilament Fishing Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I have another image of wildlife entanglement to share, this time a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photos.html\">California brown pelican<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=pelecanus_occidentalis\">Pelecanus occidentalis<\/a><\/em>) entangled in monofilament fishing line. This seabird appeared to me to have ingested a hook or lure, so that one end of the monofilament fishing line was down its throat while the remainder of the line was wrapped in and around the pelican&#8217;s beak and neck. I have other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=fishing_line_injury__entanglement__environmental_issues_\/_problems\">photos of monofilament fishing line injury to marine wildlife<\/a>. I also had a blog post some time ago about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wildlife-entanglement-sea-lion-and-monofilament-pelican-and-shopping-bag.html\">Seabird and Sea Lion Entanglement Photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brown pelican, entangled in monofilament fishing line, showi...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=28966\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Brown pelican, entangled in monofilament fishing line, showing winter mating plumage colors, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, La Jolla, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/california-brown-pelican-preening-image-28966-63570.jpg\" alt=\"Brown pelican, entangled in monofilament fishing line, showing winter mating plumage colors, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, La Jolla, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brown pelican, entangled in monofilament fishing line, showing winter mating plumage colors<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=28966\">28966<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Brown Pelican photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photo.html\">Brown Pelican<\/a>, <a title=\"Pelecanus occidentalis photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis\"><i>Pelecanus occidentalis<\/i><\/a>, <a title=\"Pelecanus occidentalis californicus photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis_californicus\"><i>Pelecanus occidentalis californicus<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I have another image of wildlife entanglement to share, this time a California brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) entangled in monofilament fishing line. This seabird appeared to me to have ingested a hook or lure, so that one end of the monofilament fishing line was down its throat while the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,189,193],"tags":[212,237,303,305],"class_list":{"0":"post-6242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environmental-problems","8":"category-pelicans-of-la-jolla","9":"category-seabird","10":"tag-birds","11":"tag-entanglement","12":"tag-pelicans","13":"tag-pollution"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}