Gulf Coast birds may be cooked alive by the oil spill

There is a video of the referenced segment at the following link.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/09/birds-cooked-oil/

By Amanda Terkel at 11:35 am

Yesterday, MSNBC did a segment with NBC reporter Kerry Sanders, who was live in East Grand Terre Island, LA, one of the places hardest hit by the BP oil spill. The area is covered with “thick, goopy oil” that is “hot because the oil absorbs the heat of the sun.” Sanders talked about the deadly mix of oil and heat for wildlife:

As you know, a bird has a natural repellent in its feathers that keeps the water out. That’s a little area — a little cushion — that keeps it cool. Well, this oil here gets on those feathers, and they lose that little insulation. And then, when you have this oil at 100+ degrees, the bird experts say, it begins to literally cook the birds.


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