BP oil spill may have killed hundreds of thousands of birds
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Heavily oiled brown pelicans captured in 2010 at Grand Isle, La., wait to be cleaned.
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Heavily oiled brown pelicans captured in 2010 at Grand Isle, La., wait to be cleaned.
International Bird Rescue Research Center/Wikimedia Commons