Sentences with phrase «oiled birds»

The International Bird Research Rescue Center, one of two organisations heading up the treatment of oiled birds in the Gulf, claims that 50 to 80 per cent of the birds treated survive at least to the point of where they can be released back into the wild.

Felix Lopez, an environmental contaminants specialist in the Service's Puerto Rico Field Office, scans for oiled birds in Barataria Bay, Louisiana during the BP oil spill response.

Oiled birds in the many nesting areas that dot the Gulf Coast typically are left in place and not counted in official tallies.

Are these birds better off in the long run than the heavily oiled birds?

Park staff are locating oiled birds reported near the elephant seal colony and one other location.

While protected by booms we still saw oiled birds and even old oily booms that had washed up on shore at points throughout the island.

Schneider is not an expert in working with oiled birds, but is familiar with the work being done at Phillip Island.

The government counts only oiled birds collected for rehabilitation or found dead for use as evidence in the spill investigation.

Only a small fraction of oiled birds are ever found — many die at sea or on remote shores.

The biologist Silvia Gaus recently called for oiled birds to be killed humanely, claiming 99 per cent of released animals die within days or a few weeks due to stress or kidney and liver damage from ingesting oil.

At the time of posting 442 oiled birds had been captured and roughly a dozen brown pelicans had been released while a large number remained in holding pens.

And several of those stragglers have already ended up among the small numbers of oiled birds.

«You could have multiple peaks of oiled birds.

As of Saturday, just 24 oiled birds had been rescued from Gulf of Mexico waters around oil - spill containment ships or on the beaches, where volunteers and experts are on the lookout.

Approximately, three oiled birds have been recovered today — two were deceased.

We know this because we've all felt the pain of the oiled birds and stained beaches over these past 100 days — everyone in the country, but those keenest who were closest to it.

When a penguin encounters an oil spill, rescuers use the sweaters to help rehabilitate the oiled birds.

Arkansas Students Help Look for Oiled Birds The University of Central Arkansas» Biology Department's Ornithology class volunteered to search for oiled birds and other wildlife:

Since then, 22 families have been evacuated from their homes, the appearance of oiled birds and wildlife has raised concerns the oil has spread beyond the neighborhood and we've learned that a legal technicality exempts Exxon from being required to contribute money to a federal oil spill cleanup fund.

An oiled bird is an oiled bird — it dies.

Images of oiled birds and turtles, crude - covered marshlands, and shuttered businesses are now sadly

«We're definitely seeing more lightly oiled birds, which are more capable of escaping rescue attempts than heavily oiled birds.