Over 300 Dead Birds Are Likely Gulf Spill Victims

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - More than 300 sea birds, nearly 200 turtles and 19 dolphins have been found dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast during the first five weeks of BP's huge oil spill off Louisiana, wildlife officials reported on Monday.

The 316 dead birds collected along the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida -- plus 10 others that died or were euthanized at wildlife rehabilitation centers after they were captured alive, far outnumber the 31 surviving birds found oiled to date.

The raw tally of birds listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as dead on arrival at wildlife collection facilities include specimens obviously tainted with oil and some with no visible signs of oil contamination.

But all are being counted as potential casualties of the oil gushing since April 20 from a ruptured wellhead on the floor of the Gulf because of their proximity in time and space to the spill, said Jay Holcomb, who directs a rescue center for birds in Fort Jackson, Louisiana.

The same is true of nearly 200 sea turtles found dead and dying along the Gulf Coast, and 19 dead dolphins verified in the region since the oil drilling blowout on April 20.

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Pile them up inside their HQs! Make them see the results of their deliberate actions up close.

a victim of big oil's greed and those on both sides of the aisle that support them.

Many of those sea turtles are Ridleys, which are endangered to begin with.

I think we should start carrying around buckets of used oil and tossing it on any Busted Pipeline (BP) executive we can get near.

(Don't throw it on their minimum wage workers at the Ken-Jo's, though. Those people just need a job to feed their families).

none of those animals died from this oil spill. They must've died from some other contamination.