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Rescuers are struggling to save scores of pelicans found sick and starving along coastal Southern California — even though experts say there’s plenty of fish for them in local waters. The big-beaked seabirds are anemic, dehydrated and weigh only half of what they should, Debbie McGuire, executive director of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, told the Associated Press. “They are starving to death and if we don’t get them into care, they will die,” McGuire said. “It really is a crisis.” The center recently rescued some two dozen ailing brown pelicans after lifeguards sp…

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