Species most often found covered in oil
(In order of impact)
1. Surf scoter
2. Western grebe
3. Eared grebe
4. Greater scaup
5. Horned grebe
6. Ruddy duck
7. Common murre
8. Common loon
9. Lesser scaup
10. Clark's grebe
Dead oiled birds
(In order of impact)
1. Surf scoter
2. Western grebe
3. Common murre
4. Western or Clark's grebe*
5. Brandt's cormorant
6. Greater scaup
7. Eared grebe
8. Double-crested cormorant
9. Northern fulmar
10. Western gull
* Hybrid category was created because in some circumstances it is impossible to determine type of grebe
Source: California Department of Fish and Game
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AN ECOLOGICAL SHOCK
Numerous birds because the oil
Are dying in the sound;
While, as gets shook the mortal coil
The losses are profound.
All this consumption, this transport
Has got to cease, diminish
If we would live: to thus consort
But hastens our own finish.
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