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Audubon Oil Response Team Update #3: Taking care of birds
Melanie Driscoll (by David J. Ringer/Audubon)Audubon's director of bird conservation in Louisiana, Melanie Driscoll, met yesterday with staff from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Louisiana Department...
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If I take a few quiet moments to reflect at the end of a hectic day, I begin to think of all the people who want to do something -- anything -- to help the birds, ecosystems and communities affected by...
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Audubon Oil Spill Response Team Update #5: Birds in harm's way
Reddish Egret (David J. Ringer/Audubon)I've been birding the Gulf Coast for nine years, since I was a college freshman in Texas. My first introduction was magical, an experience I've never forgotten,...
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Audubon Oil Spill Response Team Update #6: Oiled shorebirds
An oil-stained Sanderling on Grand Isle, La. (Kim Hubbard/Audubon)I saw it on a Dunlin first -- or, was it a Sanderling? -- and then a Least Tern. Oil. Staining bellies that should gleam white,...
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Audubon Oil Spill Reponse Team Update #7: What oiled birds look like
An immature Brown Pelican partly coated with oil. (Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine) As oil moves ashore in Louisiana, its effects on birds are becoming more visible to us humans. Yet this remains a...
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Audubon Oil Spill Response Team Update #8: A Sanderling dies
A Sanderling, its breast feathers matted with oil, loses its grip on life. (Timmy Vincent/Audubon)Late last week, one Sanderling's story ended on a beach in western Louisiana. Timmy Vincent found it,...
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Audubon Oil Spill Response Team Update: Volunteers give Least Terns a chance
Jacob Watson, Jr., volunteers with Audubon in Louisiana as a wildlife transport facilitator and beach steward. David J. Ringer/Audubon"My reason for being here is just to give help in any way that I...
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Audubon Oil Spill Response Team Update: Oil is going but isn't gone
A young Brown Pelican balances on boom still strung around the island where it was hatched and grew up. Melanie Driscoll/Audubon As thousands of young Brown Pelicans and other birds leave their nests...
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One day on the beach: Audubon Coastal Bird Survey comes to Louisiana
Piping Plover © Erik JohnsonA light west breeze stirs thick, salty air. At barely eight o’clock, the day’s heat has begun to build already. Swallows flicker over the beach in scores, heading into the...
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Christmas Bird Counting on Grand Isle, Louisiana
An Orange-crowned Warbler feeds in a Turk's cap thicket (David J. Ringer/Audubon)Grand Isle: the only inhabited barrier island in Louisiana. A narrow wisp of sand marking the gulf-most extent of an old...
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