{"id":108591,"date":"2026-01-07T03:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/108591\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:51:07","slug":"sanibel-wildlife-clinic-rescues-pelican-from-swallowed-hooks-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/108591\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanibel wildlife clinic rescues pelican from swallowed hooks | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANIBEL, Fla. &#8211; A Sanibel vetrinarian\u00a0recently took on a unique challenge at a local veterinary clinic.\u00a0Dr. Comolli recently took on an unusual task at the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) by reaching down a pelican&#8217;s throat to remove hooks.<\/p>\n<p>The pelicans had swallowed hooks, and vetrinarians opted for a less invasive approach by manually removing them while the birds were sedated.<\/p>\n<p>According to a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1AQTQMhtkb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CROW&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a>, Dr. Comolli successfully removed five hooks and some fishing line from a pelican&#8217;s stomach. The pelican was sedated, and Dr. Comolli used a lubricated glove to carefully retrieve the items.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"pelicans swallowed hooks\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The team at CROW ensures top-notch care for their patients, and the pelicans were unharmed by the procedure. Pelicans naturally swallow large fish, so there was no risk of injury from Dr. Comolli&#8217;s small hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANIBEL, Fla. &#8211; A Sanibel vetrinarian\u00a0recently took on a unique challenge at a local veterinary clinic.\u00a0Dr. Comolli recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,55616,15471],"class_list":{"0":"post-108591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-pelican","13":"tag-sanibel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}