Pelican Dreams: DVD now available!  Order the DVD (includes 80
minutes of Bonus Features) See the theatrical trailer Pelican
Dreams Soundtrack Album  gigi on bridge   As I track this brown
pelican—tired, hungry, and disoriented—from her “arrest” on the
bridge (she was transported in a police car) to a nearby seabird
rescue center, the film broadens to explore the implications of
our urban world view, and how it affects nature.  close up
eye“Gigi” (named for “Golden Gate”) was only about four months
old when she landed on the bridge. The film re-creates her
probable prior history: hatching in the Channel Islands,
migrating up the coast with other juveniles, perhaps stopping
over at the Farallon Islands before she made her drastic
miscalculation at the bridge. Threaded with Gigi’s story from
crisis to recuperation to release is my search for the person
who knows pelicans best. Is it the scientist who has been
studying them for 40 years? The fisherman who gets to know them
at the dock and at sea? The rehab worke