Pancho the Pelican an urban celebrity in Havana
Pancho the Pelican an urban celebrity in Havana
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
Associated Press
Published: Friday, September 6, 2013 at 12:58 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 6, 2013 at 12:58 p.m.
Pancho the Pelican apparently prefers the company of humans to his own kind, and the grit of the big city to a life spent soaring through the breeze above the Caribbean Sea.
The wayward seabird has become the toast of 23rd Street, a bustling Havana thoroughfare where the 2-foot-tall Pancho waddles down the sidewalk, wings spread and beak agape, as delighted children point and smoky 1950s Chevrolets rumble past.
He's on a first-name basis with neighbors who've come to see him as one of their own. Paperboys greet him each morning with cries of "Panchoooooo, the paaaaaaper's here!"
"When I saw him, it was love at first sight," said Magela Guerrero, Pancho's 32-year-old adopted "mom," of whom he's fiercely protective.
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