For workers cleaning up at Talbert Marsh and other wetlands, the visible damage from the Orange County oil spill is only the beginning.
At least 24 oiled birds have been recovered, according to director Michael Ziccardi, director of Oiled Wildlife Care Network. Five of them — including— have died. Three double-crested cormorants have also died, the wildlife group said.
She was worried about the pod of dolphins she had just seen and whether they would eat fish from the contaminated water. She surfs there several times a week. The parking lot, usually crowded with fellow surfers, was empty.The first victims are seabirds, graceful creatures that alight upon the ocean’s surface.
“It’s all the stuff we can’t see that scares me,” she said. “This will have impacts for years to come as it works through the food chain.”, the workers used grimy rakes to search for oil stuck against walls and rocks. Pelicans perched nearby, and a trash bin was filled with plastic bags of recovered oil.
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