Cleaning an oiled brown pelican

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USFWS

Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Wildlife biologists carefully remove oil from a brown pelican after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Ecosystem
Coastal
Subject tags
Animal health
Birds
Human-wildlife conflicts
Oil spills
Pollution
Wading birds
Wildlife
Wildlife impacts
Wildlife refuges