[Was Jean-Phillipe overly excited about protecting sea turtles from natural predators? Well yes. It was a paying job, after all, and while he's surrounded by several thousand undeniably magical situations that gives him a headache that spans his multiple brains, he'll never turn down the lure of coin.

Even though this particular job seems counter-productive.]

At the risk of sounding like a natural documentary, it's quite common for entire nests of these creatures to be picked off before they reach the ocean. Survival of the fittest and all that.

[That being said, he does level a pistol, with a strange contraption attached to the end, at a diving pelican and pulls the trigger. The sound isn't a loud retort, but rather a quiet zip thanks to his silencer. The bird falls.]

You realize shooing them away will only encourage them, yes?