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First Oil-Soaked Bird Rescued Off Louisiana |
Wildlife rescuers are tending the first bird found covered with oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The soiled young Northern Gannet was found offshore, cleaned with a common dish soap and given a familiar human treatment for an upset stomach. Teams from the Delaware-based Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research have set up shop at historic Fort Jackson, about 70 miles southeast of New Orleans.
Flocks of the long-beaked Northern Gannet, which normally is white with a yellow crown and spends most of its life at sea, "engage in spectacular bouts of plunge-diving for fish, with hundreds of birds diving into the ocean from heights of up to 40 metres (130 feet)," the Cornell Lab of Orinthology says.
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