The lucky ones!?

[thewiseguy]

Carl Pellegrin (R) of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and Tim Kimmel (L) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepare to net a pelican covered with oil in Barataria Bay, Louisiana June 5, 2010.



Brown Pelicans, covered in oil from BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, huddle together in a cage at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, Louisiana June 6, 2010. REUTERS/Lee Celano



A Pelican covered in oil waits to be cleaned at a rescue center at a facility set up by the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, La. , Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)



A Brown Pelican spreads its wings after being cleaned at a rescue center at a facility set up by the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, La. , Saturday, June 5, 2010.

[villager]

1. But where do they release them to, once they're cleaned?

Since their homes are still being steadily destroyed by BP? :shrug:

[Captain Hilts]

Doesn't it screw up the oil in their feathers and make it difficult for them to swim or something?

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. I should think they'd have to hold them for a period of time, maybe

several days or even weeks, for their own body oils to re-establish themselves in the feathers.

Don't know, really - just musing.

[Electric Monk]

2. Relatively speaking, I suppose...