Migrating to disaster

"It's like a slow-moving train wreck, and the brakes haven't been applied''

This excerpt is from a Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune article

A time bomb is ticking for Minnesota's loons and many other iconic birds that spend part of the year here before migrating south each fall.
As black crude continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, contaminating some of the continent's richest wildlife habitat, officials fear an oily death could await untold numbers of the state's beloved 12,000 loons and other commonly seen birds in Minnesota such as great blue herons, white pelicans, spotted sandpipers, egrets and ducks when they migrate south in a few months.

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"It's like a slow-moving train wreck, and the brakes haven't been applied,'' said Doug Inkley, senior scientist with the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, D.C. "This is a disaster in which we're almost helpless to do anything.''

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