Poor prospects for oiled birds

Chris Mead ()
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Nature, 1997, vol. 390, issue 6659, 449-450

Abstract: A common consequence of large-scale oil spillage in coastal waters is the fouling of marine birds; a common response is to clean those birds that survive the initial incident, and release them back into the wild. Two papers, analysing British and Dutch data on the rehabitation of oiled guillemots, show, however, that such cleaning endeavours are largely doomed to failure — they respectively report that only about 1% and 20% of the birds survived their first year after release.

Date: 1997
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