Pelicans, Back from Brink of Extinction, Face Threat From Oil Spill

Friday, June 4, 2010 - 22:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Pesticides wiped out the brown pelicans of Queen Bess Island in Louisiana in the 1960s before they were reintroduced and thrived.

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