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Birds Suffering from Oil Spill

Critter News

Pelicans unable to fly due to being coated with oil. Several pelicans were coated in oil on Barataria Bay off Louisiana, their usually brown and white feathers now jet black. Pelican eggs were glazed with rust-colored gunk, and new hatchlings and nests were also coated with crude. It's the Exxon Valdez all over again.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

10,000 Birds

The island contains 80,000 breeding Sooty Terns, in addition to 4,500 breeding Brown Noddies and another 100 breeding pairs of the huge Magnificent Frigatebirds, not to mention pelicans, herons, Black Skimmers , other tern species, and so much more. Sooty Terns are incredibly birds. Trips bird banding dry tortugas Florida'

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