Pelicans Resist Going Indoors for Winter

Five feisty pelicans flapped their wings in protest and faced off Thursday with workers at the Bronx Zoo who were trying to move the birds indoors for the winter. The zookeepers won.

The scene was Cope Lake at the zoo, where the five birds spend the milder months of the year until chilly weather dictates their move inside the Ostrich House.

Four zookeepers rowed out onto the pond with giant nets to capture the birds. It took nearly an hour of wings’ flapping and feathers’ flying, and one zookeeper’s dunking before the pesky birds were trapped unharmed.