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New York Times: For more than a decade, the hundreds of brown pelicans that nested among the mangrove shrubs on Queen Bess Island west of here were living proof that a species brought to the edge of extinction could come back and thrive. The island was one of three sites in Louisiana where the large, long-billed birds were reintroduced after pesticides wiped them out in the state in the 1960s. But on Thursday, 29 of the birds, their feathers so coated in thick brown sludge that their natural ......
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Pelicans, Back from Brink of Extinction, Face Threat From Oil Spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 5th, 2010
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