Louisiana's brown pelican imperiled by oil spill

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Louisiana's brown pelican imperiled by oil spill
By JOHN FLESHER
The Associated Press May 19, 2010
Bloomberg Business Week

Hounded by hunters and fishermen, driven to near-extinction by chemical pollution, the brown pelican has survived a century of human abuse -- only to face another challenge from the giant oil spill threatening to devastate the Gulf of Mexico marine environment.

The odd-looking seabird with a distinctive pouch beneath its foot-long bill was removed from the U.S. federal endangered species list only in November. Now its recovery could be undermined by millions of gallons of oil polluting the Gulf since an April 20 rig explosion.

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