Joey and Felicity, brown pelicans at the Pittsburgh Zoo, recovered safely after escaping their habitat Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Two pelicans have returned to the Pittsburgh Zoo Saturday night after escaping their habitat in the morning, leading to a day-long search.<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium said the two brown pelicans, Joey and Felicity, are safely back at the zoo with no injuries. <\/p>\n
The zoo said teams monitored both animals until they could be safely approached and recovered. Neither animal was injured, but both will be monitored by the zoo’s health team. <\/p>\n
More than a dozen members of the public called a zoo hotline established to help monitor the birds. <\/p>\n
Zoo officials thanked Pittsburgh River Rescue, Three Rivers Waterkeeper, the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Aviary for helping in the recovery effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey and Felicity, brown pelicans at the Pittsburgh Zoo, recovered safely after escaping their habitat Saturday morning. Two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95756,11280,126546,126545,35730,49793,23232,79,126632,126629,126630,28931,72517,47575,126542,73,75,74,49015,2063,126631,126544,19503,11621,54182,6989,10254,5105,126543,71567,64532],"class_list":["post-309128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-additional-information","tag-animal","tag-animal-care-team","tag-animal-safety","tag-aquarium","tag-army-corps","tag-bird","tag-city","tag-dozen-member","tag-engineers","tag-felicity","tag-habitat","tag-joey","tag-mpnd","tag-pelican","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-river-rescue","tag-pittsburgh-zoo","tag-rivers-waterkeeper","tag-safe-return","tag-situation","tag-team","tag-top-priority","tag-update","tag-wtae","tag-zoo","tag-zoo-animal","tag-zoo-enclosure","tag-zoo-official"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}