Major Louisiana coastal project encounters new resistance houmatoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from houmatoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A pelican rescued from the 2010 oil spill, cleaned of oil and released in Georgia, has returned 700 miles to an island restored last year for pelicans and other seabirds.
It was among 5,000 oil-covered birds collected in and off Louisiana during the spill, and among 582 pelicans that were rehabilitated, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said in a news release Thursday.
Biologists don’t know just when it returned to Queen Bess Island. But a photo taken in March by a department biologist clearly shows the red band marked “33Z” that was put around the bird’s leg after its rescue on June 14, 2010, at the Empire jetties in Barataria Bay.
Oil-covered pelican rescued during Deepwater Horizon spill flew almost 700 miles back home houmatoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from houmatoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A Louisiana brown pelican, rehabilitated following 2010 Gulf Spill, flew from Georgia Red 33Z, flown to Georgia following the BP oil disaster, was recently photographed on Queen Bess Island, LA, a 700-mile journey. (Source: Casey Wright) By John Snell | April 8, 2021 at 11:12 AM CDT - Updated April 8 at 11:12 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Louisiana brown pelican, rescued following the 2010 BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, seemed determined to find its way home after being released in Georgia.
The bird, tagged “Red 33Z,” was found at the Empire Jetties in Barataria Bay on June 14, 2010, according the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
And back home it is.
This brown pelican was covered in oil during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010, rescued and cleaned then flown to and released in Georgia. It was spotted in March on a rock jetty on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay by a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist.
The pelican was tagged “Red 33Z” when captured on June 14, 2010, at the Empire Jetties in Barataria Bay in the wake of the giant oil spill. It was taken to a triage facility and then to a rehabilitation facility in Louisiana. After that, it was taken via plane to a U.S. Coast Guard station in Brunswick, Georgia, and released on July 1, 2010.