Laura Erickson has a timely and excellent post on the ABA blog ?Galveston Bay Oil Spill: What We Birders Can Do?. The article discusses how the ?protocol for counting oiled animals? has changed for the benefit of the oil industry and to the detriment of wildlife.

See: http://blog.aba.org/2014/03/galveston-bay-oil-spill-what-we-birders-can-do.html

Diane Weinstein
Issaquah