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A dead, oil-covered Northern Gannet lies on Grand Isle Beach in Grand Isle, La. on Friday, May 21. A month after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, sheets of heavy oil are starting to clog fragile marshlands on the fringes of the Mississippi Delta.

These are some of the first images we are getting of dead, oil-covered wildlife washing up on shore. So sad.

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