Pelicans saved from Gulf oil stick to new homes MiamiHerald.com More than 600 oiled pelicans were plucked from the Gulf oil slick last year after a BP-leased oil rig blew up off the Louisiana coast in April, killing 11 workers. The birds were cleaned and nursed back to health at Fort Jackson, La. … Portland documentary filmmaker tracks a pelican oiled in last year's Gulf spillOregonLive.com
MIAMI - Members of the Coast Guard, National Park Service, and staff from Pelican Harbor Seabird Station in Miami, unload 23 crates with 45 brown pelican chicks Saturday, July 10, 2010, at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The pelicans, ranging in age from 5-to-10 weeks old, had been impacted in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and previously cared for at Fort Jackson Bird Rehabilitation Center in Buras, La. The chicks were transported to Pelican Harbor Seabird Station in Miami where they will remain until they can fly and be released into the wild. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Krystyna Hannum. Uploads by deepwaterhorizonjic
A group of rescued and cleaned pelicans is transported aboard a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge for release into the wild. The pelicans will stand a better chance of not bei Uploads by deepwaterhorizonjic
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