(FOX40.COM) — The work of community members and volunteers led to the rescue of an American White Pelican from a freezing ... has been in a Teichert pond east of Donner Lake.

Lawonn: Well, white pelican populations declined quite a bit ... colonies in Oregon are on the dry side of the state, on the east side of the state. And all of those colonies have been affected ...

OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (CBS 58) -- It's a rare find in Wisconsin after November. An American White Pelican. Tonight, a plea from the Wildlife In Need Center that's struggling to keep her alive.

And as environmental changes have affected where white pelicans choose to nest, the birds themselves are changing the environment at their new homes. “Mostly the pelican diet is composed of fish ...