After being poisoned during a toxic algal bloom earlier this year, a flock of rehabilitated brown pelicans returned to the wild on Wednesday morning.
Animal care experts at Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center rescued and provided treatment to the birds.
Their oceanic habitat, once toxic due to the algal bloom, is now ready for them to settle there again, as the bloom has died down. WWCC officials coordinated the release for Wednesday morning at Huntington Beach City Beach, just south of the pier…