Reacting to New Peer-Reviewed Study, Audubon Says Total Deaths Likely in Seven Figures
New York–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. A new peer-reviewed study estimates 600,000-800,000 coastal waterbirds were killed in the first three months of the 2010 BP oil disaster, The New York Times reports today (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/science/still-counting-gulf-spills-dead-birds.html?ref=science). The study estimates only a portion of the total bird mortality that occurred as a result of the spill. The study, which uses two different modeling techniques, is…
