Oil covered BP Pelican

A brown pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, on the beach at Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island. Source; The Daily Telegraph.

Photographing BP Oil in on Gulf Shore

Photographing BP Oil in on Gulf Shore, originally uploaded by Greenpeace USA 2010.

Photographer Carolyn Cole, with The Los Angeles Times takes pictures of oil from the Deepwater Horizon on the breakwater in the mouth of the Mississippi River where it meets the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, Tuesday, May, 18, 2010.

The BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning, leaking an estimate of more than 210,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead.

Photo by Sean Gardner/Greenpeace

Cleaning A Pelican In Louisiana

Cleaning A Pelican In Louisiana, originally uploaded by Greenpeace USA 2010.

Fort Jackson, Louisiana (USA). May 15th, 2010. Veterinarian Erica Miller, left, with the help of two other workers at the International Bird Rescue Research Center facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana clean a Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) on May 15, 2010.

The bird was covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, the BP leased oil platform that exploded on April 20 and sank after burning. Photo by © Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace